2016 Targets

No Shooting in 2016

Feb 2015 I moved into a small apartment in North Carolina. I worked a new job for six months while my wife stayed to sell the house in Georgia. Once the house sold, my family moved in with me in the small apartment. After a year and a half, we purchased our new home but it took another few months to build my handloading shop in the basement and get things organized. It was not until about late August 2017 that I was able to start shooting again. I no longer owned land where I could shoot out of my garage but I was able to shoot further than 100 yards by 2018.

late 2018 is where my quest for accuracy out to 200 yards began. This is were I soon understood why the 44-40 had such a bad reputation at longer distance shooting...why everyone said that it was not good past 100 yards. The problem was years of mis-information and weak factory loads as well as mouse fart cowboy loads. The Cowboy loads were designed for (low velocity) Cowboy Action Shooting competitions but folks that didn't know any better thought that it was ammunition loaded just like they were back in the cowboy days of the 1870's and 1880's.

John Kort had already perfected the black powder loads to replicate original 1,300fps velocities using he 43-215C handcast bullets so I decided to perfect smokeless powder loads to replicate the original black powder performance plus Winchester's 1,500fps "High Velocity" loads. I certainly do cliam perfection in anything but ya gotta admit, it sounded nice!!!!

2015 Targets