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Offline Capt. Augustus

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Handi in .500 S&W
« on: January 25, 2007, 07:05:53 AM »
Has anyone shot their Handi .500 using Black Powder?
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Re: Handi in .500 S&W
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2007, 08:05:35 AM »
I personally wouldn't want to mess with the clean-up, but to each their own. I read a lot and I have not seen any articles on that that I recall offhand.  I am sure it would work with a ML bullet and a slightly compressed load of BP.
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Re: Handi in .500 S&W
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2007, 08:10:32 AM »
  I have some 385 grain Hornady Great Plains hollow points laying around somewhere. I'll play with them someday, would be pretty cheap bullets!
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Re: Handi in .500 S&W
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2007, 08:23:01 AM »
I did notice that Lee made a mould for the .500 bullet, that's why I asked. 
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Re: Handi in .500 S&W
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2007, 09:46:38 AM »
Berry's makes relatively cheap bullets for the .500. :D

Tim

http://www.berrysmfg.com/228.php
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Re: Handi in .500 S&W
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2007, 10:50:28 AM »
Sighted in my 500 today!  Shooting 325 grain jhp UltraMax ammo it shot around 4 inch groups at 100 yards. I'm thinking that the pistol ammo is far short of the lands in this gun and handloading will shrink group sizes. It was pretty pleasant to shoot really off the bench. This ammo is rated at 1400 fps and I tried to chrono it but the battery must not have been good enough to register. I've had this chrono for about 15 years and it does that until you put in a fresh battery,, that I didn't have ::)

  Fun little gun!!
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Re: Handi in .500 S&W
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2007, 10:52:25 AM »
,, on another note, about 1/3 of the time it took two hammer strikes for the gun to fire. Think this is because of the rifle primers or a weak main spring?
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Re: Handi in .500 S&W
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2007, 12:43:15 PM »
Light primer strikes can be caused by not following thru on the trigger pull, a full pull to the rear is required, or the transfer bar will fall and prevent full impact to the firing pin, just don't release the trigger at the break, exagerate your trigger pull, that should help.

All I shoot is rifle and mag rifle primers, never had a problem, but there's always the possibility of a weak hammer spring, if you feel like replacing it, might as well do a trigger job while you're at it, IF that's the problem, give H&R a call and see if they'll send you one, or you can order them from Brownells or Numrich, they're about $2 each. Wolff also offers heavy duty springs.

Tim
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