I got out to the range yesterday with the Delta 32 SS. It was one cold morning - but the sun was out, and there was no mud! yeah.



I set up with the gun mount and the chrono, and recorded some numbers. I'm tuning the rifle for the best string of shots above spec.

The peak of the curve yesterday, was the Barnes Falcon @ 77.3 grains, going 885 fps ... for 134.5 fpe. The single ought (O) buckshot from Hornady, flew @ 988 fps. It makes a good default close range round.



I soon started calling shots. I set up this block @ 50 yards and labeled it. Then proceeded to pop it right in the targeted kill zone.



Shot this excellent group @ 50 yards.



Decided that (since the gun is going to a varmint control officer), I needed a Beaver target.



And popped that right under the ear @ 50 yards!



The big bore bullet trap did a good job of recycling the lead for me too. It turns everything into nice lead flakes.

Good session. The guns ships today.
Gary

The above target was carried into the shop. I just measured it @ .245" c/c @ 50 yards.

Gary

Smokin'. What's the fill pressure on that bad boy?

Now you guys see why Gary has an advantage over me and Jerry . . . he builds the guns AND gets to shoot more than us.

-- Jim



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That's nice Gary, and with the 32 caliber he should be ready for just about any varmit here in the good old USA. That's not the magnum version either is it? It looks nice and sleek, should be a pleasure to hunt with.

Jim,

Gary is getting too far ahead. You need to be there to shoot anytime I can't make it and vice versa!

That is excellent performance... I like those figures! I've thought a .32 shooting round ball at 850-875 fps would be fine, but this does even better. I'd also be interested to know if this is the "standard" or magnum version.

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This is the standard model ...

Gary

Whoop.... Whoop.... Whoop...That makes this the first "Standard" model I have ever seen Gary make!!!

Ya, I know standard in energy only. But didn't he come up about 40% above required spec there as well.

Ah well, it's just another Barnes...what did you expect?

I'm sure the new owner will be thrilled. Gary, you have to also be excited about knowing this gun will be used to its potential. Maybe the new owner will let the rest of us in on how to become a varmint mercenary so we can use our Barnes purchase as a business expense.

Kent

Hi Kent,

Note the new post with the rebuilt valve. Went to the range again this afternoon. The numbers are even better.

Thanks. I'm pleased with it. I hope the owner will enjoy it, share it with us, and wear it down to a nub.

Gary

Gary, if that's standard performance, I don't see any need for a magnum upgrade.

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Soooo .......

I decided to go back and drag forward a nice post from waaay back, for us to review. This was a special gun, very carefully prepared for a fellow to use varmint hunting.

Pictures from the field? Of targets? Of varmints? No ... not yet. Probably any day now though ....

Gary



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Looks like "Varmint Guy" fell off the planet right after delivery. Amazing how some people can struggle to make the internet work while they wait but fall back into the dark ages as soon as their package shows up...

I seem to recall that we got what, 7 or 9 dead level shots off one fill with that gun? Nice and quiet, shot above spec in both power and number per fill vs. the order and is now in a black hole. I suppose it's out there at night killing beavers as planned.

that was sneaky, bringing back an oldie - when I first saw "it was one cold morning" I thought "WHAT???"

now I'm back to reality - haha

Yeah Bill,

That one was all prepared and shipped in Feb. No reaction yet as to how it's doing. Very satisfying, as you can imagine. Imagine replacing a hip, with absolutely no follow-up .....

Gary

Actually, Gary, some of the time times I replace a hip or a knee I'd PREFER no follow-up......

imagine some of your more difficult ledger customer types....then add in their families....

sometimes I'd like to lock some of my "customers" in a safe !

fortunately, it's only a very few.....although if "government care" takes over, and people have to wait a year for their hip, I can only imagine who they'll take THAT out on !

Maybe a better analogy would have been, "imagine no follow-up unless part of a lawsuit..."

At least as a helicopter pilot, you know right away if your customers are happy or not. It's especially easy to tell when you're doing aerial tour work: if they're white with fear and still clutching well-used barf bags when they get out on shakey legs...they're happy! Provided, of course, that they got their video footage.

I never could understand why someone would want to spend their whole flight peering through the tiny little viewfinder on a camcorder instead of just enjoying the flight themselves the first time around. You're far better off just buying the professionally made video back at the gift shop, it's always much better quality than any consumer-grade camcorder is gonna capture. Nothing makes people airsick faster than watching the Grand Canyon go by at 100 knots at 100x zoom.

Rotor head saz:Nothing makes people airsick faster than watching the Grand Canyon go by at 100 knots at 100x zoom

Gee thanx for that image..... just reading that makes me nauseaus.....

I don't know... having them close their eyes and then dropping the collective in conjunction with full right pedal seems to work pretty well too!

Ohhhh ... you flyboys are sooooooooo mean ....

Actually, when you fly for the hospitals the patients sometimes puke regardless of how smooth you are at the controls, so you just have to get used to the smell. The trick is making sure that they don't puke on YOU, especially the GI bleeders. Nothing ruins your appetite like half-digested blood (usually mixed with cheap booze) served up hot and fresh in the cockpit.

If you gutshoot a stumbling drunk deer and then wait a couple of hot summer days before you cut it open, you'll have a pretty good idea of the smell...yuck.

Yuk!

I agree ... ... I just threw up on my keyboard. Hey ... as moderator Jerry ... doesn't anybody "screen" these guys? hahah. Nothing worse than a bunch of medical people with a mind to gross ya out!

hahaha,.

Gary

I'm not going to add any more to the "yuck" factor....except to say that as bad as GI Bleeders are, there is one situation that's worse !


But enough of that - I AM enjoying the various other threads going on now