Shot my first match of the year

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Shot my first match of the year

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I love shooting steel silhouettes with cast bullets and this week I had my first opportunity of the year to do so. Shooting this match, my rifle of choice was a new to me Winchester 38-55, The beautiful commemorative Legendary Frontiersmen model. The rifle has a round 24" barrel, which is a bit lighter than the octagon Marlin CB model I previously used. Ammo was handloaded with two different powders and some Ranch Dog cast bullets. I used a lighter charge of powder and a 250 gr. cast, plain base bullet on the closer targets, chickens @ 50M and pigs @ 100M. For the longer range animals I used the same bullet but gas checked and a stiffer load for the 150M turkeys and 200M rams.

When I ordered this mould from RD, I specified that he could remove the gas check base from three of the cavities, which he did and I am really happy with this mould. Now every cast gives me three each of pb and gc bullets. Thanks for that option Michael.
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Glad the mold worked out! Great looking rifle!
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Nice rifle sounds like fun
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Sounds like a lot of fun, and I really like that rifle.
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