1871 spittin PileDrivers

[Grizz_]

Took the Buffalo Classic out this week. Wednesday my son and I found a semi-secluded spot in the Washington woods and clanged steel and split rocks. Large rocks secumb to the PileDriver. The base of the part on the right is still embedded in the bank. The PileDriver seperated the two pieces from it with one shot.



Today I got to shoot the load over a chronograph at a range. My PileDriver load ran 1433fps out of a guide gun for one shot and ran 1580, 1544, and 1556 out of the H&R 1871.

This barrel is probably longer than the round needs because the one fired from the 26" cowboy was in the 1500+ range.

Averaging the 3 rounds yields a mv of 1560fps for a TKO of 53.7 from the 1871 and 'only' 49.3 from the guide gun. That low tko # is twice what my 325g .44 mag load produces from a hand gun.

I am pretty sure it would penetrate any animal in the Americas end to end.

[rbergum95]

nice shooting. id hate to be on the business end of that load. btw, what bullet are you shooting??

[quickdtoo]

That's some serious rockin, Grizz!!

Tim

[Grizz_]

nice shooting. id hate to be on the business end of that load. btw, what bullet are you shooting??

That's Marshall Stanton's PileDriver: 525g cast gc

http://beartoothbullets.com/open_sight/archive_open_sight.htm/21

Seems kind of wussy after reading about the 700g .500 S&W.
I think it's new barrel time for me-O.

[Grizz_]

That's some serious rockin, Grizz!!

Tim

thanks Tim!

I kind of feel sheepish after reading your adventures with the .500..,

[quickdtoo]

No need to feel that way Grizz, we like all kinds of stories on shooting big bores, but I will have to do some penetration tests with the Piledrivers in the 45-120 BC!!  Ranger Rick has some .458" 720gr FNGCs to shoot in the .45-70/45-120 too!!

Tim

http://www.lsstuff.com/ranger-rick/