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Jonesy814 · Jul 17, 2019

A friend was in town over the weekend and had time to hit the range with me on Sunday afternoon.
He had his Glock 22 and LC9, but the star of the day was my 5 inch S&W 625-6. He kept calling it the gun you cant miss with and it did seem that way. We were mostly shooting at an 8X10, and an 11X13 steel plate at 60-75 feet and 2 round 8 inch plates at 50 feet
We did shoot some targets and here is one I shot with my 625. This is 6 shots, standing, double action at 50 feet

Here is the revolver we were shooting. Ammo was my 45acp, 200gr semi wadcutters

Beat the heck out of the big steel plate. It was freshly painted the day before

Tallball · Jul 17, 2019

Nice! I like mine a lot, too. They are fabulous revolvers.

StrawHat · Jul 17, 2019

The ACP revolver is about the finest one built by S&W. From 1917 until now, they are all good.

Kevin

sparkyv · Jul 17, 2019

Yes sir, that indeed looks like fun! Does the 625 use moon clips?

gotboostvr · Jul 17, 2019

sparkyv said:
Yes sir, that indeed looks like fun! Does the 625 use moon clips?

Yes, but you can also shoot without them. Standard pressure loads the brass usually falls out. You might have to flick one or two out with your fingernail occasionally towards the end if a range trip.

MaxP · Jul 17, 2019

It almost looks like it is key-holing, looking at the holes it produced on that top target. Or maybe my eyes are deceiving me....

gotboostvr · Jul 17, 2019

MaxP said:
It almost looks like it is key-holing, looking at the holes it produced on that top target. Or maybe my eyes are deceiving me....

I have targets do that when not fully secured and pulled taught to a backer

MaxP · Jul 17, 2019

It looks pretty secure. Not trying to be a naysayer, but I would like to see what the targets look like stretched out a little farther.

ATLDave · Jul 17, 2019

MaxP said:
It looks pretty secure. Not trying to be a naysayer, but I would like to see what the targets look like stretched out a little farther.

When I've seen pistol rounds that are truly keyholing, the gun wouldn't have gotten on that size paper at 50 feet.

Armored farmer · Jul 17, 2019

Nice revolver.

A .45acp revolver is definitely on my want list.

MaxP · Jul 17, 2019

ATLDave said:
When I've seen pistol rounds that are truly keyholing, the gun wouldn't have gotten on that size paper at 50 feet.

I've had it more pronounced farther out, but at this range it looks to me likes it's key-holing. Here is a picture of a target I shot years ago, testing bullets that were way too long. Not trying to be combative, it just doesn't look right to me.

ATLDave · Jul 17, 2019

MaxP said:
Not trying to be combative, it just doesn't look right to me.

Oh, you're miles away from coming across as "combative" in this exchange, and I hope I'm not being combative either. I have great respect for your knowledge of revolver ballistics, and would bow to you as the master on anything close to that. I just know that I have seen guns that were unquestionably throwing unstabilized bullets, and they were all over the place at just 10-12 yards. And the holes weren't round holes with a tear on the side, either. They were all kinds of crazy shapes, and many were perfect side-profile images of the bullet.

How many bullet holes are in your photo?

MaxP · Jul 17, 2019

Two I believe. I thought I had a better picture that showed the whole cylinder. I need to do some more digging. Again, I might be way off base here, but it's just nagging at me.

Walkalong · Jul 17, 2019

Armored farmer said:
Nice revolver.

A .45acp revolver is definitely on my want list.

I foolishly sold a 625. Someone aught to kick me in the butt.

ATLDave · Jul 17, 2019

It's been a long time since I took geometry, but I'm hard pressed to imagine how you could get a beautifully, perfectly round hole for the nose of the bullet and then have part of the bullet swung out to the side for a keyhole.

AK103K · Jul 17, 2019

There are a couple of things that will give results on paper that look like the round keyholed. Lack of backing is one, type of paper is another. And, of course, and actual keyhole.

I get results like that on a lot of my targets because the backer behind it, has been chewed away and there is no support behind the paper.

Ive also seen that on targets that are a basic "paper", and not the heavier target type paper most "offical" type targets are made of.

The easiest way to tell, is to push the "tear" back and look at the hole. If it is keyholing, its going to be obvious. If its not, youll see a hole that looks like it should.

MaxP · Jul 17, 2019

ATLDave said:
It's been a long time since I took geometry, but I'm hard pressed to imagine how you could get a beautifully, perfectly round hole for the nose of the bullet and then have part of the bullet swung out to the side for a keyhole.

It's probably three then, but again, I need to find the bigger photo. I recently had another revolver key hole and it was more pronounced. I would still like to see the OP stretch the revolver's legs out a bit more. It's curiosity at this point!

AK103K · Jul 17, 2019

As for the 625's, I picked this one up last week. Shoots pretty good too.

gotboostvr · Jul 17, 2019

Im a big fan of 45acp wheel guns

sparkyv · Jul 17, 2019

AK103K said:
As for the 625's, I picked this one up last week. Shoots pretty good too.

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I'll say! Very nice.

Jonesy814 · Jul 18, 2019

MaxP said:
It almost looks like it is key-holing, looking at the holes it produced on that top target. Or maybe my eyes are deceiving me....

The cardboard backer behind the target was pretty much nonexistent in spots by the time that target was shot and i was shooting RN ammo.
It doesn’t keyhole. Here is a target from a week ago shooting 200gr SWC

MaxP · Jul 18, 2019

Jonesy814 said:
The cardboard backer behind the target was pretty much nonexistent in spots by the time that target was shot and i was shooting RN ammo.
It doesn’t keyhole. Here is a target from a week ago shooting 200gr SWC
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That explains it! Sorry for raising doubt, it just didn’t look right despite the fact that you clustered your shots nicely.

drband · Jul 18, 2019

RN bullets tear paper. SWCs punch holes. I use SWCs!

Walkalong · Jul 18, 2019

Yea, that pic just shows the target tearing. If they were keyholing you would have the sideways silhouette of a bullet passing through.

MaxP · Jul 18, 2019

Walkalong said:
Yea, that pic just shows the target tearing. If they were keyholing you would have the sideways silhouette of a bullet passing through.

I do a lot of testing and have developed a very critical eye, particularly when I am trying to extract the absolute best accuracy I can from a given combination. So if something looks off, I will raise it.

My apologies if I offended the OP.

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