50/95 WCF

[charlie cleveland]

you boys got some interesting elaphant guns. paul how far out would you shoot at a deer with that 10 ga barrel liner...my 8 ga is only accurate at about 30 yards...charlie

[wayne goerres]

For those that were keeping up with this thread, the rifle arrived a couple of days ago. It is a thing of beauty. As soon as I get the chance Ill try to post a picture. I have tried a few different loads in the gun. Started with three rounds of 2f Bp to get an Idea of what the proper velocity for this particular cartridge should be. It went a little over 1300fps. The secound loads were run with 5744 powder in Three shot strings. The middle string shot pretty well but about 8" high at fifty yards. Powder burned pretty dirty. Left alot of partially burnt kernels in the bore and chamber. This was expected. Moved on to SR4759 powder. The first shot went 1089fps so I raised it one grain and it hit 1689fps. two twitchy for me. Tomorrow I am going to try IMR 4198. This gun sure is a hoot to shoot.

[C.O.B.]

Are you sure that a one grain increase of powder upped the velocity 600FPS?
I have never seen such an increase in any of the centerfire cartridges I load for.

[wayne goerres]

Yep and that's why I stopped. I was expecting an increase of 100fps. 63grs of IMR 4198 netted me 1426fps this morning with a much cleaner burn. This is the first time I have used close cell foam backer rod in my loads. I thought maybe that had something to do with it but it didn't seem to make any difference with 4198. At any rate I am not going to push my luck. There are too many different powders out there.

[C.O.B.]

Have you tried Trail Boss?

[wayne goerres]

Haven't had a chance yet. Rain has set in, but I am going to throw some tomorrow to try with the 4198. Thanks for the reminder.

[wayne goerres]

As promised her are some pic's of the rifle. The sharps in the first photo is there for scale. It is a 50/90 C Sharps with a 32" heavy barrel. I finished loading rounds for testing when it dries out. Loaded some trail Boss at 70% case capacity to 90%. Loaded one round each and ran outside between rain drops and fired them over the chronograph. Topped out at 1366fps. At 100% it didnt show any gain over 90% so I loaded three rounds each at 70%' 80% and 90% to try out when it dries out. My pic's didn't load so I will have to try again

[wayne goerres]

Lets try again.

[C.O.B.]

That's a nice looking rifle. I know Winchester is offering the 76 (IIRC) and Turnbull is doing the case colors. I've toyed with the idea of one in maybe 44-40 but I doubt I'll do anything about it. I have two Winchester lever guns and haven't shot either one

[edgarspencer]

The 1873 was made for the pistol cartridges, and the 1876 was for the longer cases.
Its a nice looking '76, Wayne. I like the colors. I have an original and wish it showed the colors yours shows.