One grain of 4759 + 600 fps, somethings wrong. Thrown from a measure ?

William

Weighed on a Dornady electric powder dispenser.

Edgar what caliber is your 76? Friend has an 86 next generation action but it is cool gun as well.

Calvin, my '76 is in 40-82WCF.
I also like the '86s and foolishly let a guy talk me out of my 45-90 takedown.

I have a crudely butchered 16" Win 1886 T/D in .45-90. Wicked fast little bear gun and bungees onto the front rack of a Honda quad quite nicely. It's the only gun I have that I've had to use to kill a bear in self defense.

It's no secret I love Winchesters, and in particular, lever guns.
I'm coming to grips with my dilema of having too much stuff, and am selling a lot of my special order 94 rifles. The last to go will probably be a 25-35 semi deluxe with shotgun butt, half round / half oct, pistol grip, set trigger beach front and Lyman tang. I chased that one for over ten years. Or maybe the last one will be the set trigger Half round 38-55. No, it'll have to be the 98% takedown. I know, I'll keep them all.

I had a chance about 3 years ago to buy a 76 win. in 50/95 at the southern but I had already purchased a Boss and my budget was a little dented. Wanted one ever sense so I bought a replica.

The Southern is a good place to dent the budget, mine has been dented there every year for as long as I've gone:eek:. I'm trying to pre buy this year:rotf:

You will probable regret that. A better strategy might be to pre- approve some purchases in your area and then attend the southern. That way if you find something better than buy it. If not than this will leave you time to develop some serious Buyers remorse about the Items you pre approved. I am sure this advise isn't worth the time it took to type it.

I have already pre bought one that I'll pick up there and am working on two more also to be picked up at the Southern. This way I get what I want and am financially dented before I get there and won't/can't be influenced into another purchase......I hope:whistle:

There's always MAD MONEY!

Reviving this thread for all of those that showed interest. The final load consisted of 37grs of IMR 4198 a federal large rifle primer and a bullet cast from a lyman mold that I opened up to cast .516. The velocity ran 1515fps and it shoots a 1 1/2" clover leaf at 50yds with open sights. Thats about as good as I can see.

i would hate to be the deer that run into this load....charlie

Was supposed to stop a Buffalo but I don't think it did to good a job of it unless you emptied all 10 rounds into it. Should take care of a deer.

Did you ever try the Trail Boss? I have my 16's loaded so I'm going to give it a try in my Ruger #1 450-400 NE and a 200gr+/- pistol bullet.

Yea I did, but the velocity was lo and the accuracy was only so so. I may try it again since I reworked the bullet mold and there may be an improvement in accuracy.

Wayne, what is the weight of your cast bullets? I have some 330 grain plain base bullets on the way from Montana Bullet Works. They are sized .515", which should work well with the Uberti .514" groove diameter. Winchester actually cataloged smokeless loads for the 50-95 in 1897 and 1898. I will be using IMR 4198.

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Mark. You are about to have a lot of fun. 4198 is a good choice for powder. I am using 5/8" backer rod on top of my powder charge. I had to change sights on mine the Uberti sights just didn't work for me. My bullets cast at 350grs.(if I remember correctly).

black powder and jacketed bullets
 

Has anyone ever used black powder and jacketed bullets together? my point is the black is for not overloading the 1876 Winchester, the jacketed bullets for game.. plus I have a hoard of them..

Winchester cataloged quite a few cartridges that were loaded with black powder and 'metal patched' bullets.

I have never seen a jacketed bullet in that diameter. At these velocity's they would not expand.

Barnes makes a 300 grain JSP, but they are .510".