Originally Posted By: SDH-MT
Sounds reasonable.
It's those darn flyers that are hard to account for!!!

Steve, here's a more representative sample of my own shooting, with one of the most accurate Colt SAs I've ever owned. It's a 1st-gen, actually an 1894-vintage BP gun that someone reblued and I later rebuilt.

The flyers are present on almost all the targets shot with that revolver. I used mostly plain-base Keith SWCs (the coffee-can bullet) from a specially-sized Hensley & Gibbs mould that threw the old-style wheel weights to 0.454" as-cast, 265 grains with the lube. The first-gen 5 1/2" barrel grooves measured 0.454" and I substituted a 2nd-gen cylinder with throats measuring .455".

The early Colt dimensions are a mare's nest of conflicting & non-matching sizes, possibly the subject of a future thread. Let's just say that if you ever find an early Colt revolver that's REALLY accurate, IMO you better cherish it and hold it close, VERY close!
Regards, Joe


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