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The Combat Masterpiece .38 sp, one of the guns I grew up on.I did some fun plinking at 100 or so yards with my model 14 s&w, 9" pie tin hanging from a tree. 148 grain fully seated wadcutters with gas checks. Once holdover was dialed in, hit almost every shot in about a three inch group.
Hmmmm. 3 inch or less groups at 100 yards? That would be 1.5 groups at 50 yards. I saw lots of Ransom Rest groups with different center-fire handgun cartridges and guns and ammo reported in gun magazines back in the 1970s through 90s. Generally the best Ransom Rest groups of production SWs, Colts, or Rugers from revolvers with barrels six inches or less were between 1.5 and 2 inches at 50 yards. That's just the variability of the guns. From what I could tell, the best I saw when shooters tested the guns hand held added at an additional 1 to 2 inches to bench rest, open sights groups, bring the fifty yard total to 2.5 to 3" groups at 50 yards and 5 to 6 inch groups at 100 yards. However, good shooters with scoped handguns shooting from bench rest could do almost as well as Ransom Rest.
So I'm wondering....
Is yours an unusually precise model 14? What is the barrel length? Is the gun scoped? Are you a champion type hand gunner? Was the hundred yards measured or paced or guessed? Did you measure or guesstimate the group size? Were you shooting from bench rest or what position? Did you develop the load for this gun? Are you a fisherman? (If so I figure in an FFF-- Fisherman's Fibbing Factor of 2X on everything. Meaning the distance might have been as short as fifty yards and the group size might have been up to six inches. )
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