Wringing out a new one.

I got to take out my new 5 1/2" 45lc blackhawk today.
I sold my 35 whelen to a friend last week, and wound up buying this pistol with some of the proceeds. I got rid of my tracker due to accuracy problems. I just couldn't get it to group very well at all. This new pistol has proven to be a very pleasant suprise. It shot several different loads quite well. As a matter of fact, there wasn't a real stinker in any of the loads. Even my God-Awful bear loads shot well.(as well as I can shoot them, due to heavy recoil)
I even got a nice holster and belt for it today. I swapped a co-worker 3 boxes of SKS ammo for this rig. He seems to have had trouble wrapping it around his newly acquired girth.
I didn't expect it to shoot light cast loads well at all, due to tight chamber throats, but it grouped them nicely.
Next on the agenda is some gunsmithing to get rid of all this trigger creep. It should make a nice trail gun, once I get everything just the way I want it.

Dan, I think that is probably the Super Blackhawk??????

I have a 5 1/2 inch Blackhawk in 357.  It is a real nice carry gun.  I'd use it for a protector, but whitetail is the biggest thing I've shot with it.  It handles 38 SWC with 5 gr of unique like a target pistol.

The long Colt sounds more traditional than my 357.

BEAR

 Dan I like your choice in barrel lengths. That 5 1/2 seems to offer the best of both worlds , enough barrel to get velocity and sight radius, and short enough to not be a pain to pack around.

The Taurus is gone. I tried half a dozen different loads in it, to include lead roundballs, and I just couldn't get it to do better than around 2 1/2" at 25 yards.
Yeah Ranch. I really like it too. It liked those 255swc's you sent me too. I just cast up 250 of them with my new LEE six cavity mould this evening. Hopefully I'll get to take it out to play some more next weekend, if'n I get all my chores done.

Took the 45's out to play again this weekend. I tried the trapper with the 255 swc's first. It REALLY likes them. I put 5 in a ragged hole at 25 yards. I turned the rest of the magazine loose on the 100 yard berm. Busting small rocks and loose odds and ends on the berm was pretty easy. If I could see it I could hit it. The blackhawk produced my best handgun group to date. I was able to squeeze 5 shots into a bit over an inch. We were shooting at 12ga empties from 25 to 50 yards, and hitting pretty frequently. I even managed to plug a golf ball at around 25 yards. I went out today and did some long range shooting with the blackhawk. I was hitting an old 20lb propane tank at 100 yards pretty regularly. I shot up half a box of shells trying to hit a clay pigeon stuck in a sand bank 250 yards away. Never did hit it, but I came close enough to throw dirt on it many times. The best news was when I got home tonight and took the guns apart to clean them. ZERO leading and just a smudge of powder residue, after over 100 rounds through the pistol and 20 through the carbine. All in all I'm quite pleased.