.38-50 #2

[JKR]

Arnie,
It’s the Crossno. Same one I as working with last winter. I sent it out to be re barreled to 45-90 but ended up buying Dick Schaff’s Meacham Highwall in 45-90, six months later. The gunsmith hadn’t got round to the re barrel yet so, not wanting two 90’s, I had him ship it back.
Last winter I was having trouble with case separations with the old, stretched, 45-70 brass that I got with the rifle. I now have lots of 45-90 brass and made new cases for it. The separation problem went away. Kurt and Brian Schwend had sent me a nice selection of bullets to try and it seemed to be shooting pretty well. Brian’s groove sized bullet was particularly interesting. If I were to go PP, this is the way I’d go in order to use up some of the case capacity. With the 16 twist this will not be a long range rifle, in my opinion. I’m currently shooting the Lyman Snover bullet and 66 grains of 1 1/2. I have a Saeco 740 mould coming.
As I said earlier, it’s coming around pretty well, and lots of fun to shoot.
Matt sent me some of his latest DD bullets to try in the Meacham 45-90. They shot great. I sent a couple out to Steve Brooks to duplicate. Steve made Matt’s mould. The bullets looks very much like Jim’s #6 but is DD.
I’m lucky to have the 500 yard range at Spooner to prove out my loads after I’m satisfied with them here at 300. Neal and I still shoot there once a week as long as the weather holds.
Looking forward to the 22 matches at Merrill.
Jim