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Nice find. I have a good amount of CCI primers of that vintage, maybe not quite as old. Work just fine.

D you need to clean the lanolin/alcohol case lube off the cases after your done sizing?

I like this idea. I hate the lead that is lost getting out the dross. This sounds like a good way to minimize that.

Austrian Steyr Model 1912 Steyr-Hahn pistol. The amount of recoil itself wasn’t too bad but it was the way it was felt, it transferred through to the trigger and slapped hard. My trigger finger was...

I grab any of the old stuff that I can when I see it. It definitely does work better

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Yeah, but it has to be the old Hoppe’s before they took the stuff out that could give you cancer. Now that stuff smelled good!

Haven’t seen a JC Devine auction tag in a bit. That’s from my neck of the woods.

Great news, will be good to see blackpowder being made in America again

I grease the lead ball before driving it in so it takes less force to tap it through the bore. It’s fine that the lead is larger, center it on the muzzle and using a lead or brass hammer start...

One very different aspect of loading black powder is that you load to fill the case (less the space for the bullet). With smokeless you have a range of weight of a particular powder that is safe in a...

Looks good. How did you do the soldering? Are you loading black powder? Donnelly’s book suggests that the annealing of the cartridge head from the heat of soldering only makes this safe for black...

I hugged an owl once, true story

The 454190 is a 19th century design and they didn’t have anything but revolvers in .45 Colt back then. It may be that it doesn’t carry enough lube for a longer barrel. I love the bullet in my Uberti...

Is the 50/50 bar solder usually pretty much half tin half lead or is there usually small amounts of other metals in there as well?

I can’t say for your Henry but the Lee 452-255 is a great .45 Colt bullet. It is what I shoot when I am shooting smokeless.

Groove to groove is .425. Cylinder throats are .442. Cylinders actually taper very slightly. From what little I can find these measurements are the correct ones.

Photos of my Merwin Hulbert

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Thank you for the info DJ. I have some 7/8”-14 threaded rod that I am going to make dies from on the lathe for swaging the cases down. I debated whether it needed to be done in multiple steps but was...

I will try some out when I figure what to use for brass. I am thinking .44 Mag or .44 Special and make a die to size them down. Not sure yet, not much out there on what others have done.

What is...

I bought this mold recently with the crazy idea of trying to get my Merwin Hulbert Army revolver up and shooting. It is chambered in .44 M&H, their proprietary cartridge. When I got it in hand I...

I might just get a custom mold made. I don’t want to change my existing mold as I use it for other guns. Maybe powder coating, never tried that before

I need to bump up the size of my bullets a few thou. I know I read how to do it on hear but I can’t seem to find it. My Whitney Kennedy 44-40 has a very oversized bore and I would like to use the...

Have fun with it. On the cleaning part of it, I shot my Whitney Kennedy for the first time last week. Shot 60 rds and forgot to bring a cleaning rod and wet patches to run down the bore every...

I’ll probably work up a few rounds and see how it goes with the jacketed bullets.

I managed to get a nice Soviet Nagant revolver, original finish, no import mark :-D. I would like to shoot it now even though I don’t have a mold yet (any recommendations?). I have some .308 jacketed...