Biscuit hunter
club membership and range fee's would be paid regardless for rifle use! i am hoping i can set myself up for about £200 all in as looking at prices on second hand pistols i think its a reasonable budget to work to.
as for price per shot, it was merely curiosity rather than a deciding factor! hell, it can't work out much more than shooting 250 clays every month can it!
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There's not much difference in the cost of buying powder, wads and shot for .36 and .44.
Don't forget the wads or grease for over the balls though as I believe we had a chain fire incident at the club the other week. No-one injured but a gun destroyed and a bad case of the runs.
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The Bosun's Watch
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As above. Dont worry about the running costs where pistols are concearned.
Most people i know shoot .44/.45 as apposed to anything else, theres more choice of guns in the larger calibers and if you have to rely on buying your balls they seem to be more available. Best to try as many guns as you can, make your decision as to what you want then look at whats available in that model. Hold a .44/.45 ball in one hand and a .31/.36 in the other then decideAnyway at my age i need the bigger hole in the target to see where the balls gone!
Have fun. Tim
I shoot and I vote
44=more bang, more smoke=bigger grin.
Go for one with a top strap like a ROA remmington or Rogers for target shooting, rater than the colt with its open frame and sighting through a groove in the hammer.
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Pietta make a good Remmy copy although they can be a little rough around the edges.Originally Posted by Smokeless Coal
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The Bosun's Watch
Biscuit hunter
was given this advice at the club last night. i know i need to do a lot more reading, feeling and talking before i part with any cash so i know i am not making a mistake with what i buy!
I shoot and I vote
Stainless will be easier to clean and have a longer life, but it wll cost a lot more.
I've seen blue revolvers change hands for £30, mine cost me £60. At that sort of price getting a replacement is not too painful on the pocket.
£30 for a bottle of powder that will last months is not a critical expence so should not dictate caliber.
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” :- Prince Philip said after Dunblane
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One ever-lasting niggle over here is the utterly unbelievable cost of the average pack of 100 cast ball - around £10-12 per hundred.
I cast my own, and have done since the late 1960's, and reckon that the average cost to me of casting scrap lead from our old plumbing is around 17P per thousand.
IF you get into BP handgun shooting, get a suitable mould just as fast as you can - a propane gas-burner and an old pan will do to melt the stuff, and a ladle to decant it into the mould.
I have no idea how much it costs me to shoot my .44s, but by the time you've bought either caps, black powder or one of the substitutes and the stuff to seal over the end of the chambers - I use Boots E45 handcream - it can't be much more than a few pennies.
And BTW - it has been shown over in the USA by careful experimentation that multiple discharges are NOT initiated from the open end of the chamber, but by poorly fitted percussion caps. And I would very much like to see the gun that was 'destroyed' by such a multiple discharge.
tac - BP shooter since 1964
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