just got mine last week, courtesy of a cgn named rustywood. took it to the range today, figured i'd share my first impression.
mine is a .45 colt. the fit and finish (of the exterior) seem nice, the rifle is solid! i used an rcbs trigger scale which read 5.5 lbs consistently.
i took remington 250g rn, winchester 255g rn, and winchester 250g fn "cowboy action loads" to test it out. i set up targets at 25 and 50 yds, and took 5-shot groups.
win super x: total bust. no matter which one i took from the box, couldn't get a second into the rifle. the first always hung up inside preventing the gate from opening for the second. not sure why, because the bullet profile seems identical to the remington.
remington: tough to feed through the gate after the fourth or fifth. also, the edges on the gate are pretty sharp, got some good gouges in the fingers trying to shove the remingtons in.
win cowboy loads: flawless. fed perfectly from the first to the tenth.
left to right: win cowboy/rem/win superx
the cowboy and remington seemed to perform much the same:
25 yds:
50 yds:
i wasn't very precise with my shooting, i shot from the bench but without bags or support, and i shot offhand. real-world like. nothing spectacular, but give me a break, i just got it. with some practice, i think it'll be an all-right shooter. just need to tear it apart now and try to clean up some of those nasty edges.
half-hour and 100 bucks later, this is one to handload for.
