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Offline ham7777

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Range Report .500 S&W
« on: January 31, 2011, 05:05:54 PM »
Finally made it out to shoot my Gray Beard special,I bought the barrel,stock and receiver here.
The barrel fit was perfect and of course the stock set was good to go. Also the bullet, brass and dies which came with the barrel.
But best of all it shot great.    :) 8) ;D   Tom
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2011, 05:12:10 PM »
I love the look of those straight grip stocks. 
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2011, 02:36:30 AM »
That's a nice looking setup you got there.
I'm becoming a big fan of the straight stocks too. I've reshaped a couple pistol grip stocks to straight grip and refinished them.
How do you like the sights on it? Some guys have complained of durability issues with the plastic sights but it looks like yours are working just fine. ;)



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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2011, 02:45:33 AM »
NICE SHOOTIN'!!

Nice to see a "shooter" 500!!  I am going to recrown mine and see how it shoots.... may "have to" make another shortie.  ::)

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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2011, 06:57:50 AM »
How's the recoil with that big boomer?
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2011, 07:12:35 AM »
Tom,
  Any idea on the velocity with that load?

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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2011, 04:28:12 PM »
Nice shooting!
When mine arrives, I hope to get out to the range. What make of stock is that? Nice looking.
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 11:59:54 PM »
Quote from: Boomer68 on February 04, 2011, 04:28:12 PM
Nice shooting!
When mine arrives, I hope to get out to the range. What make of stock is that? Nice looking.

That is a factory laminated, cinnamon, straight grip stock. If you enlarge a bit you can even see a H&R medallion in the stock.

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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2011, 01:12:36 AM »
You can't do better than that!.....Open sights!....I'd say you have a keeper!
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2011, 02:40:49 AM »
That is a NICE rifle.  I just bought a .500 barrel from frgerald and hope mine turns out that well.

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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2011, 03:55:31 PM »
A pawn shop here in town has a new in the box 500 S&W for $239.  I been trying to get a 35 Whelen and almost changed my mind and bought the 500.  What helped me to not make that decision was the price of the ammo.  Wal-Mart has a box of 20 Hornady 350 gr for $56 a box, which seems pretty high to me.  Online searches show that good hunting ammo runs about $60 for a box of 20.  I'm setup to reload, but I would have to buy brass and dies and didn't want to do all that right now.  Would be fun to shoot one of those every now and then though.
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2011, 05:10:20 PM »
If I didn't load, I wouldn't have even purchased my .500 S&W barrel!  After bulk buys of brass and bullets, I'm shooting it with costs that allow me to shoot as much as I want, AND, I can make can poppin' loads that my 9 year old grandkids can handle, all the way up to Mastodon busters!
Don't put off loading, for this or any other round!  It's NOT rocket science, and the cost savings over factory loads is substantial, as well as being able to tailor loads that are NOT available over the counter.  Do it!
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2011, 05:38:23 PM »
Going to try some lead bullets soon,have a guy close by Moyer bullets that does a great job and prices are pretty good. Reloading is the only way to go on this old girl  ;)

It is indeed a factory stock Unlimted set,that I bought here on GB,it does look good  8) ;D
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Re: Range Report .500 S&W
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2011, 06:32:45 AM »
Beaverslayer, just get it, but dont buy ammo at all, throw that money at reloading stuff and in what, maybe only 150rds worth of factory you are good to go from here to eternity. At first I wouldnt even buy dies, just brass and some cast bullets to fit the fired case necks. Deprime, reprime, powder and lead........bang!
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