Wednesday night Casual

[bigpower491]

Nothing better after dinner than a good chaw of Red Man and letting rip some 454 "Casuals". Ive been wanting to get back to this project for a spell, so figured tonight be a good time to break out the old Super Redhawk and shoot some of the casual jacketed loads i put together the other night. Basically a 250XTP deep seated and 9.5gr of #5. They shot fairly decent, actually pretty darn good considering the operator was having a hard time keeping himself steady. Was good to finally put this big chunk of stainless back in my hands after a long layoff. It had been awhile.
Spring has sprung, nice evening tonight. Made better by Ruger.........

 

[Targa]

Very nice, sounds like a great evening! I like taming my .454 loads a bit as well. When I don’t feel like full blown Casull abuse I take my 250 grain cast bullets and put 11 grains of Universal under it. It’s good for over 1200 fps, basically a very spicy .45Colt.

 

[shoebox1.1]

That sounds like a perfect evening

 

[halfmoonclip]

Understand the notion of loading down cannons a bit; been doing that with a couple .44s.
Bigpower, enjoy that young cannon!
Moon

 

[cfullgraf]

Great on down loading the 454 for fun.

I have a hot 45 Colt load in a 460 S&W Mag case that makes shooting my 460XVR fun for plinking. I use Unique under a 255 SWC bullet.

You do not have to have wrist snapping recoil for all ammunition you shoot in the "hand cannons".

 

[bigpower491]

This big revolver is a ton of fun with the light loads. Could shoot it all day long casual. I can't handle the big loads like I used to. Still occasionally let go my pet 300 cast performance/296 loads, but not toooo many, maybe a cylinder or 2 here and there.
This gun never shot 45 Colt well at all. But lighter loads in the Casull case work just fine, go figure. I do love its flexibility tho. I use small pistol primers in it up to about 44 Mag level, small rifle for everything above. Needless to say, I don't go thru many small rifle primers with it. I have been considering selling it off and getting a SRH in 44 Mag, but it's totally unnecessary with the 454s flexibility to adapt. With a couple savvy loading techniques you can pretty much make it what you want