Ruger Bisley .45 Colt performance.

[jeager106]

Mine is a 7.5", totaly stock.
It shoots pretty well with my reloads of ### grains of #### powder.
I have recently tried some Gold Dot 250 grain bullets and results have been pretty good to date, one group going about 1.25" at 25 yards.
For those of us with the Bisley Blackhawk in .45 Colt.
What kind of accuracy are you getting with what we will call 'hunting' loads.
PLEASE DON'T publish loads here.
I will look up loads in the manuals. If you could/want to you could suggest your source and I'll look it up.
Are there aftermarket improvements that make the cylinder pin easier to remove/install?
Is discussing the Ruger Bisley and aftermarket parts appropriate here?

[Graybeard]

Mine (very soon to be mjbgalt's) is an Accusport Limited Edition SS with 5.5" barrel. Now I don't normally shoot the shorter barrels like that very well. But this one since the day I opened the box has been a shooter. The chamber throats are right on and the lock up is the tightest I've ever seen on a Ruger. Trigger right out of the box was pretty nice and for a Ruger was nearly great. I took one leg of the spring off and have seen no need to do any more to this gun but shoot it.

Most every load I've tried in it seems to be accurate. These days my tired old eyes don't see iron sights as well as I once did so my ability to shoot with any iron sight gun regardless of barrel length seems to peak at about 2.5" to 3" at 25 yards. But with this one I've turned in a lot of under 2" groups and even a few under 1.5" groups. Had a couple just barely under an inch and folks I do not see that well these days. Any time I'm getting groups under the 2.5" mark at 25 these days I know the gun is capable of much better cuz I'm really not anymore.

I've taken all of my loads straight out of the Ruger section of the various loading manuals and do NOT go with the hottest of them. I mostly use 2400 and W296 in the gun. The best loads have come with Nosler 240 XTP Mag bullets. I'm really not pushing them as fast as that bullet needs to be pushed but it just shoots oh so nicely. The older Hornady 250 HPs (pre XTP) shoot pretty well in it too. I have about 1000 of them left around here which Matt will also be getting. Some loads I've put together with the Freedom Arms bullets especially the 260s are also mighty fine shooters.

I've not shot the gun in probably a year or so and reluctantly have decided to let it go to provide cash for putting a roof on the side shed of my barn.

[Hopalong7]

Bill, Pease trust me on this one!!! A roof just don't shoot worth a hoot!!!  Walt  :grin:

[Lloyd Smale]

depends alot on the gun i had an accusport that did about 2 inch a bisley vaqureo that would shoot into under 1.5 inch with alot of loads and have a couple customs that will do 1-2 inch. Bottom line is that if a revolver will shoot into 2 inches at 25 it will surfice for any handgun hunting youll do.

[Graybeard]

Bill, Pease trust me on this one!!! A roof just don't shoot worth a hoot!!! Walt

Tis true Walt. But I've not fired much over 200-300 rounds other than on the prairie dog hunt I went on back in June this entire year. That's also the only hunting I've done this year.

I have a shortness of breath issue the doctor can't seem to get firgured out. I'm on Advair and Albuterol for it but it doesn't seem to be helping. I can barely walk to the 100 yard line and to get there I have to stop and rest along the way and then when I get there need something to hold onto to keep from falling on my face. Takes the fun out of shooting when you can't walk 50 yards without being as out of breath as you used to be when you ran a mile.

The arthritis in my hands is getting so bad I have a hard time holding onto a handgun anymore. The fun is gone.

I need that roof to keep my equipment under. It might not be fun but it is practical and these days I find myself being practical more and more. I'm real close I think to letting go of a lot of my guns and building me a pond down at the front of my property so I can take up fishing without having to drive way off to do it.

[mjbgalt]

GB, thanks for the load info there, I appreciate it.

I will take very good care of your baby  :grin:

I am concerned with your health though, I wish they could pinpoint something. Maybe you need a different doc? Another opinion?

-Matt

[Graybeard]

I am concerned with your health though, I wish they could pinpoint something. Maybe you need a different doc? Another opinion?

Believe me Matt I too am concerned. It's getting to where I can do less and less all the time. The condition is only getting worse not better. The only lung doctor in the area says my lungs are fine. So what the heck can't I breath? At least my GP is trying to help me find the problem. I may eventually have to leave the area for a better lung doctor. Something ain't right.

BTW I've never smoked a single cigarette in my entire life. Breathed a lot of second hand smoke over the years but never touched one to my lips. I think it's from Monsanto and the PCBs. If so there maybe no fix.

[myronman3]

second hand smoke is very bad.     the only other thing i can say is see another doctor as soon as you can.   i have had quite a few friends that one doctor couldnt find a thing,  the next found things right away.   sometimes it just takes someone else.  

best of wishes to you; i will add you to my prayers.

[mjbgalt]

monsanto? pcb? i am not familiar with these terms.

-Matt

[Graybeard]

Monsanto is a huge chemical manufacturer. They had a plant about 1/4 mile from my home as I grew up. They made the entire worlds supply of PCBs (google it) for many years at that plant. They spewed them into the air, flowed them into the waters and otherwise polluted the entire area with the carcinogen PCB.

They renamed that plant Solutia and settled two case action lawsuits paying out many many millions of dollars to us folks affected. My share was rather tiny. In fact Faye's was far more than mine but still small. I lived within 1/4 mile of it for the first 20 years of my life and they said she had nearly three times as many PCBs in her as I do in me even tho she was far from the plant those years and we've been together for the past 40 years.

They only tested for I think ten specific types of them out of the hundreds of different types possible. I'm guessing that's the reason for the results. Either that or they mixed mine up with someone else's and there was no way to dispute the results.

It ruined my health and in return I got paid less than I've spent on doctors trying to find why I can't breathe.

[jeager106]

Cheesh Bill!
Ya shot 200 rounds of .45 Colt boolits thru yer roof?
No wonder it leaks. :-D

[Moe]

GB, sorry to here about your health issues. I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of it. I have worked most of muy adult life in the semiconductor industry. I am sure it won't be pretty as I get older.

 I have an Acusport 41 mag Bisley that shoots very well with most bullets I have tried also. I would say about 2.5 inch at 25. Don't see the sights to well any more either...

[jeager106]

bill et.al.:
sorry about the content of this post. Move it if you need, but I'm a bit overcome with emotion right now fellas.
pcb'S (Bill knows this) are among the MOST cancer causing agents in the world and they NEVER disappear from the environment.
There is a beautiful stream close to where I live polluted with pcb, fishing has been banned for 27 years and will NEVER be safe.
Same for wading, swimming, and why would anyone canoe the thing?

I was a cop for 22years.
In 1973 I (and 60 police/fire/emt's) were exposed to a chemical plant explosion/fire.

We were told it was ordinary pesticides/herbicides.
NOT! Agent orange.
Of those 60 odd I'm one of FIVE left alive and cancer free.
I think. (gulp)
Kinda my why of saying I absolutely know your concerns.
Most nearly all my old chums are dead. Probably why I don't make friends anymore.
They die.
You sir are in my prayers. Prayer works.
If not now in this world then surely in the next.
For the love of God keep us informed will ya?

[Lloyd Smale]

bill sorry to hear this. I was wondering why you were parting with the only ruger sa you ever liked. Hope it works out and keep us posted so we can keep you in our prayers.

[Glanceblamm]

They renamed that plant Solutia

Bill
I have alot of Hulcher personal at my plant site (See Formosa Explosion)
And a handful of these guys have (Solutia I Saw it) stickers on their hardhats.
Was something that I wondered about but didn't ask. Best regards in the intrest of your health & YES the prayer chains really will work and you are now added to ours.
Respectfully
Randy Havener

[Glanceblamm]

jeager106
Sorry for contributing to blowing the post so I will tell you abit about my
Ruger .45 7-1/2"
The best group I got at 25yds measured 1.388" but was with a poor bullet weight (185gr) which caused my fixed sight to print very low.

I got the bullet weights up where they belong for a .45 (240 to 265gr) and was shooting anywhere from 1.720" to 2.420" at the same range of 25yds.

I cannot attest much to group size after this because I was mainly banging steel at 30, 50, 65yds using reloads ranging from 800 to 1,100fps
All With Very Favorable Results!!!!!!!!!

The last time I shot at paper was just a week before the 2005 Deer season. Using the hotter loads I sprayed 20 shots into a 9" group at 100yds shooting offhand and only allowing 3 to 5 sec per shot as this might be the only window you get when hunting.
In closing, I would have to say that using four diff powder types & four diff bullet types (or weights) that the gun liked everything I gave it (hot or Cold) except for those light 185grain's