Reeder Custom Guns - The 480 Achilles ... again ...

Spent some time on the range this morning. Shot the 480 Achilles for the first time in 10 years! It works just fine. Me ... not so well. The sights seem to have grown fuzz or somehow they got dimmer! But I had a good time. Here's a couple targets.

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I know a .22 RF is heeled but the bullet alloy is so soft it bumps up easily and it's hard to get it wrong. The .480 Achilles you have there is likely one of the most accurate CF Heeled bullet shooting guns there are.

I remember working with the .41 Long Colt (and yes, there was a .41 Short Colt, besides the .41 RF), the bullet (heeled) was 0.401" and the bore 0.403". Less than optimal but much better than post WWI ammo that had a hollow base 0.386" inside lubed slug. With either one best I could manage was 4-6" and Harry O said that was real good! He should know.

As I mentioned I could easily be bent to have a belly gun in .480 done up on a modern Italian chassis. They are generally less than $300-400. The accuracy is evidence that your rig was put together right.

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The hollow base bullet works really well with black powder. It expands the base completely.

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I bet the .45 Colt 255 hollow base and BP just might fill enough to do pretty well too?

I've shot some Pyrodex and 777 in ctg. guns for a goof, does it mimic BP fairly well in accuracy?

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barrel a hollow base that was cast a smidge harder might do well or a turned jacketed bullet.

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32 cal heeled rifle bullet many years ago? Seems like I recall seeing one an old fella showef me how to reload many years ago. He was a hermit living in the Big Thicket in East Texas. Actually living off the land. He had an old rolling block rifle and used black powder with a center fire cartridge. Until you btought up the Achilles I had forgotten about heeled bulkets.

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