33-55 cpa 44 1/2 single shot

[bobw]

My bud picked up this gun and it is very nicely done. It came with a 335~gr Hoch mold so that is what we're going to try. My question for the 38-55 shooters here what alloy? Think it is a 14 twist and will be using bp. Have new starline brass rcbs dies. Bobw

[gunlaker]

Bob I have a schuetzen CPA with a 38-55 1:14 twist Badger barrel. For whatever reason, they didn't chamber it with their very shallow leade reamer, but with a 6 degree one. As a result it takes a lot of effort to breech seat the Hoch 335gr tapered bullet and that one never shot that great for me. Instead I've been using the BACO 377325CT ( breech seated ) which is a tapered Creedmoor bullet. It has shot extremely well with a lot of Goex Fg I burned through.

That's for breech seated shooting though.

For fixed ammo, I have a Hoch 377310 bullet that shoots pretty decently in a C. Sharps 1885 with a 1:14 twist barrel.

Chris.

[bobw]

Thanks guns my memory failed me on the bullet it is a hoch mould but..376 and 310 weight. The bottom 2 at 376 and the ones forward of that less smallest on top of course. What alloy do you use? Powder charge? The gun uses the 2.125 case and dropping a bullet in the chamber pushed out shows me a 2.645" oal max. This sound familiar? Bobw

[Nuclearcricket]

I have a CPA 38-55 with a 15" twist Badger barrel. For the most part I have shot a Postel bullet that runs about 310 or so. The alloy is about 20-1 give or take some. I also have a Hoch 376-300 tapered bullet that I have shot a little. I just put it together over about 45 gr of Ctg Goex and it shot well enough to 10 out of 10 on pigs at 300 M. Now I did use the whole pig but I figure that is a pretty good start to things.
Sam

[gunlaker]

Bob, I also have the 376310. I don't like it as much as the 377310 bullet. The 376 one is tapered but the 377 isn't. I've never got better than 2 moa with the 376310, but when I shot it, I would have used 20:1 and Swiss 1.5.

Chris.

[bpcr shooter]

I shoot the lyman 379674 and my DDPP both at 16+1. Ive also ran them with Lyman #2 with good success.

matt

[SSShooter]

While I shoot a 38-55 am sure my 12" twist load of 52gr of 2F Swiss and BACo 365gr Creedmoor bullet hold little interest for your slower twists.

[SSShooter]

As a bit more info, on the Garmin chrony, this load charts at 1310fps with an SD of 11.

[Shadow 4]

Bobw,

C Sharps 1874
Whatever barrel they were screwing on a dozen years ago, (Green Mountain?) I think it's a 16 twist.
Lyman 335gr from Montana Bullet works, makes them made from Lyman #2, IIRC
Seated into the rifling
3F Old E
42 & 44gr
.060 Walters wad
Winchester case
Fed 210m primer
Compression: no clue
COAL: no clue

If I didn't list it, it's not in the case.

The Ram & Pig board were both shot at their respective firing lines, 547 yds & 328? yds, both by a 15 yr old girl, prone, (Alissah).
The Ram board is shot in this order, Red pin, white pin, blue pin, yellow, then green. winded at the start & finish, left the swinger, never adjusted the sight
These were shot at Chris Waklins, CW Quarter Horse Range at Two Hills AB.

38-55 3F by Brian Hickey, on Flickr

The pig board likes the 42 & 44gr loads, gets a belly ache with 43grs. 43grs was Followed up at other distances & a couple paper targets, belly ache remained

38-55 red42 white43blue44gr3folde by Brian Hickey, on Flickr