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Mr Sheesh, your heading in the right direction starting with light loads and .454 round balls, however
Cream of Wheat, Corn Meal or Semolina is a filler not fire blocker. The object is fill the...

Yep, here we use Corn Meal as a filler between powder and ball. Ialian would be "acorn amealia"

I believe TameBill ,Navy 36 is a very accurate C&B revolver. Look what Wild Bill Hickcock did back in the day.
I think I might have to go a little harder Brinell for use in metallic cartridge....

My lube wads are: animal grease ( lard ) and beeswax in felt for round ball and conicals. I do have some Alox will use that in bullet grooves for the metallic loads.

Do you use anything harder in...

I was thinking the same S J Hammer. Don't use a chrono, I use a target to measure POI.
I shoot a lot of Black Bowder cap & ball. No filler ,no fancy lubes.
what is a function of Card Wad ? My cast...

Shooting a lot in muzzle loading BP revolvers ,I'm very comfortable with bullet weight
and powder loading by volume . Now moving on to loads in metallic ( brass ) cases.
My plan is loading up 45...

I see several folks use FFg rather than FFFg. In pistols .
What is the real difference in results if any, or is in part ,convinance ?

Well Crash at least you have mastered the art of casting an ain't a bad writer neither.
I love short stories written years apart , cuzz well they are easy to follow....... 11 years later.
Keep em...

I will probably shoot Holy Black for the most part . I don't feel comfortable with no crimp, cuzz
used to smokeless.
When loading up BP by volume ,I'll be using 200 or 228 gr lead boolits of my own...

I have settled on using a conversion in my 1858 Remington revolver. I will be using
light loads , this is for fun plinking after all. My plan is push 228 grain RN lead bullet
and use 3f holy black...

Went to range yesterday and shot Lee .319 actually the nold throws .320.
Fired OK for a short barrlled handgun. A freind gave me a few .323 and .325, those got a little
more accuarcy with slight...

Well I received the Lee .319 mold today. One hour later had nice shiny boolits
measuring .321 +- They fit into he gun's cylinder just fine leaving a sufficient compressed bad for
a good gas seal....

Well sure Flitz. I have polished aluminum motorcycle parts for years with it.
Plus have hand lapped valves on engines.
Got to get on with it now.

Country Gent. That sounds like a good method for me.

Thanks for the detailed procedure.

My dilemma is locating a .31 cal. Round ball mold.
A few makers like Lee make one , but are only throwing .319 balls.
I have a Uberti 1849 Colt pocket that requires at least a .323 - .325 ball,
in...

This is a never ending life struggle.....make it faster ,cheaper ,better and on and on.
For those of us that enjoy the process of "doing for ourselves"...... well we just do it.
Others that don't,...

The site you listed above , has the best most concise steps for BP making, I have seen. Simple to understand not complicated.

Thanks for the post Nobade.

Thats the way it is Fly, there are always critics that pass on their lack of knowledge and some folks
just accept it, no question.
I'm amazed also, but ......we go on.

I'm gettin intoit, following info on black powder section this forum. It is as safe as you pay attention.
So far spent $16 for ingredients for at least a pound.Good stuff Fly.

I hear ya.I did the same thing when starting casting.

FLY Good idea about the hand crank coffee grinder.

Ha......ya it's Cedar , dry ready for cookin, but only one board at a time for now.

Western Cedar. WOW........ I have about 50 feet of fence around my back yard, that needs replacing.
Wow I got a big supply.

Thanks for replies.
Looks like it will be case of "use what ya can find " That's what the folks that came way before we did
had to deal with.
So take my saw and start cutting some small branches...

I am at the beginning of making Holy Black.
Probably experiment like a lot of you have done. One ingredient needed is to locate charcoal.
I will make my own, but living in a big west coastal city,...

Yup me too.