H&R 44 magnum

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I am totally suprised with the accuracy of my H&R 44 magnum .The gun is stock with no modifications and the factory barrel sights ,shooting off sandbags.I am using handloads because there is something more satisfying with shooting game with a load you reloaded yourself.Now I just have to find something to shoot with it besides paper.(100 yrds. and I know I missed the dime)http://(
 
No offense, but 2 shots don't mean a thing.
Post a few three shot groups on the same target and then I will believe.

Yours might be the first accurate H&R in 44mag I have ever seen. :p
 
Don't worry about a negative posting on here, it happens all the time!
Two shots may not prove the rifle is accurate, or well tuned, but it is a good start. A whale of a lot better than two shots 8 inches apart.
What kind of bullets and loads, etc?
I have owned five 44 magnum revolvers, two Marlin rifles in that calibre and poured bullets and reloaded for all of them. The rifles are real fun guns.
 
I am shooting 22 gr. of 4227 with Hornady 240's.Those were my last 2 shots after adjusting the sights as they were set at 50 yds. previously.All it would have taken would have been the first shot .Knowing the second follow up hits that close leaves me feeling good.If the first 2 hits that close together I don't think I need the third anyway.
 
X-fan said:
No offense, but 2 shots don't mean a thing.
Post a few three shot groups on the same target and then I will believe.

Yours might be the first accurate H&R in 44mag I have ever seen. :p
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True enough. If you want to know what your rifle is capable of, shoot 10 shot groups. You might have the 2 closest shots of a 10 shot group in that picture, and the rest may fall elsewhere. But it is a good start, just keep shooting for a bit longer.

Mark
 
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Now is the rifle scoped that will be the big factor. I just bought a Marlin 336 and am getting 2-3 inch groups of 5 shots at 50 yards with irons, but as soon as I get out to 100 they open up considerably. Iron sights are going to take getting used to. I might slap a scope on it just to see what it can do then go back to Irons when I know what kind of benchmark to strive for.
 
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The gentleman said he took these shots at 100 yards with the original factory sights.
He certainly has better vision than me.

I think myself that's a damn fine start. He's practicing at least. The scope can wait a bit.

Cheers.........
 
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That is at 100 yards.You can see the blacked out circles to the left and right and if you look really closely you can see one at the top of the black while I was adjusting the rear sight.Take a look at the primitive sights on one of these with the thick front sight.This is not a bench rest gun but an honest open sighted hunting rifle.If I wanted to shoot a scoped laser beam of a rifle I would.I've shot through a lot of game through scoped guns but now get my kicks from shooting open sighted single shots where the first shot HAS to count but if a follow up shot is needed it's there. How many animals needed a 10 shot group to finish it off?Make the first shot count
 
jklutes said:
How many animals needed a 10 shot group to finish it off?Make the first shot count
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The point is not that you will need 10 shots to finish off the animal, the point is that you don't know if your gun will put that first shot in the same spot every time with just 2 shots at a target. You need to shoot more rounds for each group to get an accurate average of where it will shoot. Those two look great, but where are the next 5-6 rounds going to hit? You don't know and neither do I. If your rifle actually shoots 6" groups, then you won't know that unless you shoot more with it.

I am not dumping on you, just pointing out that you really have no idea just how accurate your rifle is at this point, unless you put more rounds on target to confirm the accuracy of your load. At this point, you THINK it is good, after putting another 25-30 rounds into targets in larger numbers you will KNOW what it will do.

My BSA 6.5x55 has shot one 3/8", 3 shot group at 100yds. Does that mean it is a 3/8 MOA rifle? Not at all. It is actually more like a 1.25MOA rifle, but I wouldn't know that unless I shot more than that one fantastic group. This is all about averaging the results to see what it will likely do on any one shot. Averages don't work unless you have a large enough group size to even everything out.

Mark
 
I have been shooting for roughly 25 years.I've owned a lot of hunting rifles some good, some bad. My Savage BV .22 is the most accurate rifle I own. But it needs a fouling shot which will be high and right roughly an inch.The next shot and most after that will just make the hole bigger in the bullseye.I love this rifle but it is not a hunting rifle it's a range rifle.To me a good hunting rifle will shoot from a cold barrel the first shot true with the second shot near the first.If you need more then that get closer to the game you are after before you start shooting.We are talking open sights so you need to be close and accurate.You owe it to the game animal to be as ethical as you can.With todays hunting it's an ultra magnum firearm with a heavy barrel and glass strong enough to see to the next county.I hunt in the east with 200 yrds. shots and under the norm, actually out of approximately 20 deer I have shot only one has been over the 200 yrds..I began with an open sighted lever action, graduated to a bolt action with bigger glass then I needed and have gravitated back to the challenge of one shot kills with more skill used .I have never shot more then 2 shots at any deer with the second being the finisher usually and if I needed more then that I 'd probably be too embarrassed to admit it
 
X-fan said:
Yours might be the first accurate H&R in 44mag I have ever seen. :p
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Are these things known for poor accuracy? I've always had excellent accuracy with the other 6 or 7 H&R's that I've had over the years, but my .44mag was a total dog. I played with it for over a year, then finally gave up in disgust. Too bad...if it had been accuracte it would have been a great fun gun.
 
I had a Shikari H&R 44 rem mag and took the throat out of a deer (open sights) at about 100 yards. It was a nice little gun. I traded it for a M1 Garand. I now have a tube feed Rugar semi in 44 rem mag and I love it.
 
I bought one a couple yrs ago. Love the daylights out of it, for the same reasons, no scope just irons with the back notch hogged out deeper, not wider. A square blade front gives very good accuracy in my world.
Mine is quite accurate with jacketed bullets from 240 to 300 gr's, with loads it likes repeatedly under 1.5" at 50m on my good days. Too much coffee, and they go straight to hell.
My bore mikes at .430"+. So, cast has to be at .431, so sized, my 300grainers will do the same spreads. This unit has a 1 in 38" twist. Go figure.
Dwayner
 
jjohnwm said:
Are these things known for poor accuracy? I've always had excellent accuracy with the other 6 or 7 H&R's that I've had over the years, but my .44mag was a total dog. I played with it for over a year, then finally gave up in disgust. Too bad...if it had been accuracte it would have been a great fun gun.
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These are fun guns and I don't want anyone to think I'm pi$$ing on their toy.
I try to shoot all types of rifles and have I've owned a few of these in 44mag, 45Colt, 30/30, 12G slugger, and 45/70.

The 44 and 45 had a hard time staying inside 6 inches. My buddy owned a 45LC in one of these and his was about a 3 inch gun, but I don't believe it came that way (gunsmith to the rescue).

My 45/70 and 30/30 would shoot inside of 2-2.5 inches.
Good enough for short range hunting, but not great accuracy for sure.
I hear the modern round shoot better in the H&R.
 
My son's H+R 158 cloverleafs 3 shots at a 100 yards.It's in 30-30 with 32gr /Win 748/170gr Hornadys/Fed brass+ Fed mag primers.Boringly consistant.........Harold
 
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