Originally Posted by
bigted
Not so in my experience concerning super compressed loads of BP.
What i have found upon taking them back apart is that the compressed powder column does not compress clear thru the whole charge. What i found is the top quarter to half was so tight i needed my picks to uncompress and remove the charge from the weapon ... but below this i find my powder to be lose still and not crushed like the top half gets like.
This leads me to believe that the bottom of the charge gets plenty of fire from standard primers. Way easy to lite and immediate smoke and fire
This is my experience with 38-55, 45-70, 45 Colt, and 357 mag as well as 43 spanish and 38 WCF.