Thread: Innovative Gunsmith Wanted?

Originally Posted by LJP

Appreciate the wisdom Friwi, your've answered a lot of my concerns that I had regarding the Ruger rifle. I was thinking chambering specificaly in 44 special & concentrate on 200 & 240gr anyway as I couldn't get my hands on a Douglas 1-11" twist for 300gr so settle on a 1-16" twist which should suit these bullet weights nicely. I had read a few posts with improved accuracy with a stock replacement - the factory stock does seem to be quite floppy & no real room for bedding improvement. The boyd stocks listed are all over $100US so they don't ship, crap need to find a local dealer for the stock now. The March scope has something like 20mil elevation so I might be ok without a tapered base, depending how much "up" i have left after zeroing.

I am interested in this build I could do with a .44 mag to test my cast bullets in at present I have to rely on feedback from others, friwi is right do your basic trials with the standard set up I have a customer that is in pest control
he uses a Ruger 77/44 with my bullets and is getting pass throughs with my 280 gr FP at 900fps at 100 metres, I wouldn't bother with .44 Special cases are hard to source and could cost more than the mag cases, your Ruger will have a 1:20" twist it should be ok with 300 grain bullets, If you would like to test some bullets for me I will supply you some of each 280 FP 270HP 260HP to get you started, A friend recently won a 200 metre Handgun Silhouette comp with a score of 37/40 he missed 2 Chickens at 50 metres and 1 Ram at 200 metres so they are accurate, contact me at "robs.reload@gmail.com" if interested, Robert.