Ruger Single Seven 327 Federal

I got my mold Friday and cast a nice little pile of bullets out of my finest “this should work” alloy. The mold is a piece of art as I have come to expect from Tom at Accurate Molds. The bullets are a smaller version of the semi-wad cutter for the 357 mag that works so well. I forgot to weigh them. It doesn't matter, next time I cast it will be a different alloy and who knows what they will end up weighing then. I did mike a few and they came out at .316” on the lower driving bands and .313” on the band before the crimp groove. I had the mold ordered to use straight wheel weights and of course these are bigger because the alloy is close to no. 2 Lyman mix and the tin keeps the shrinking down. I sized them to .314” because the dummy cartridge would not chamber with the as cast bullet. Not a big deal except that no tumble lubing is not going to happen for the time being. The .314's push with good resistance through the chamber throats and the real rounds with a good  roll crimp chamber easily. I picked up a Lee three die set that was advertised as a blem for a good savings. The chambers on this revolver are a pretty good fit even using the Lee dies. Sometimes things get sized too small with mass produced reloading dies. Not in this case. I wanted to use a faster powder and get a good bullet upset to try to not get leading. I have not seen a lot of cast data on this 327. I went to the manual from Accurate arms and found a load for the 32 magnum using AA5. The max load for this 32HR Mag was 5.0 g under the 100g cast bullet for what they say would be 945 fps. I made a dozen at 6.0 and shot them for function and a quick check. Worked good I saw no funny stuff and the small test gave a good hint of accuracy. I mik'd the case heads and compared the results with unfired factory rounds and fired factory rounds and saw no change in dimensions. I made another dozen with 7.0g and got pretty much the same results. With this in hand I made up a sack full at 6.5 and sat at the bench and rest to do some real shooting. My home place has a 150 yard space with a nice hill at the end of it. Friday was 20 degrees and the wind was blowing left to right at about 10 to 15 miles per hour. I have the revolver sighted in for 25 yards center target to top of sight. At 150 yards I raised the front sight in the rear sight notch the same as I have with the .44 mag fired and checked in my spotting scope. I was on paper but hitting the target stapled at the right. Wind. Almost all of my rounds were on paper so I kept shooting two more cylinders full. More were hitting paper than not so I just settled down and played. I've tried to post pictures of my target but I evidently use too many of those bite things and it ain't gonna work. Suffice to say this gun looks like a good shooter. I have thirty holes in the 12"x12” target out of about 60 fired at 150 yards using cast bullets and open sights. It recoils about like a full power 38 special and shoots about as flat as a .357. Plates set up at 25 yards go down like they were hit with a 357 and have a ding in them.  I put an old set of Pachmeyer grips for the Blackhawk on because the factory grips are too small for my hands and my knuckle was taking a licking when I put my whole hand on the grip. The bigger grips make the gun point much nicer for me now and the sights look much steadier. There may be more to come tomorrow if the weather is good enough.