doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com I bought a Ballard action.

Not a bad day so I headed to the range. A little cool and a light breeze but learned a lot about this new Ballard.

I used one case that I forgot to anneal so it was pretty beat up by the time I was done.

All bullets breech-seated with the seater I adjusted above. 13.5gr 4227 (an old standby load) Remington large-pistol primers, No cleaning between bullets or lube. I grabbed whatever .32 caliber bullets I had lubed and did it.

The rifle has a fold down Lyman front sight with a pinhead that folded down after every shot ;-). The rear POS sight would not go low enough so I aimed at one plate and hit on another.

With the plates at 60 yards I could see even white around the pinhead so I shot everything at 60 yards.

I'll scan and post the targets.

Running backwards from how they were shot,

Unknown bullet mould I'll have to try to figure out which one it was. I know I fired ten bullets???

Hudson bullet No. 289 I did not have any of the No. 273's cast they are for chambers that are cut for a bigger bullet and I think they might work as well. Something for later.

Birthday Bullet seven good ones;-).

Carl Fuller mould,

Very first target, one fouler then five. This is an old Morrittie (sp?) mould that I have had for ages.

I'd say there's a good reason you held onto that last mould for ages!

Yes, I have a good collection of Moulds and have not even tried my Pope mould yet. That will have wait until the rifle has some other wood and a scope so I can move out to 100-yards.

Next step is to remove the sights and the wood and keep the barrel.

Everything will go slow now, lots to do before it's shot again.

A little easier to look at.

This is the forearm, has already been messed up so I'll try to redo and use it.