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Looks like a good bee killer but I would test several rounds against some thin cardboard or paper at various distances to be sure there is no solid projectile of either powder or media. A crimp might...

UHHHhhhh....... I did the two ball loading multiple times back when I was in high school using my Uberti '61 .36cal Navy. As has been repeated there isn't a lot of room for powder under two balls. My...

I don't have an original but to prevent wood burnout behind the nipple I have taken a small piece of sheet aluminum (any soft metal other than lead will do) and punched out a square hole toward one...

I would think that folks at the North/South Skirmish Association would be familiar with this loose barrel issue. The Zouave is a popular competition rifle there.

I can just see Boerrancher taking the hogleg to his deer stand next. Those 9" barrels are like shooting a rifle.

If you let those fired cases sit long enough with some humidity or moisture you will start seeing the blue/green verdigris(?) formin that indicates corrosion. Just toss them in some water when you...

Bigslug,
On all my Remingtons I put bearing grease on the back of the cylinder and frame where the cylinder rubs. After each charging of the chambers with powder & ball I put a single drop of oil (I...

Slugging the bore to get groove diameter then reaming the chambers to about a thou over groove will do wonders for accuracy.

ASM, Ruger and Uberti all use thread size 12-28 for their nipples. Euroarms/ASP and Pietta are metric.

Hamgunner,
Just to clarify: You filled the chambers, then used the rammer to compress the powder then aded more and seated the ball?
That's what I used to do with Black Canyon in .357 cases which I...

I put a small step in the forward edge of the lever latch spring to stop the lever fall on my two Walkers. (A dremel can make you and break you)
Epoxy or threadlock that spring into its slot or...

My opinion is that your gun is from EMF (the distributor) and made by Army San Marco. I say this because I have an 1860 Army Colt Hartford Model from EMF that is made by ASM which says "SM Black...

Let's get back to golden powder.....

Way back when one of the first subs came out called Black Canyon powder I used to load it into .357 cases by filling the case 3/4 full then taking a dowel and firmly crunching it down to essentially...

take out the nipple and dribble some gunpowder into the breach, replace the nipple and shoot it out. I've done it and it works. we're not talking 50 grs but maybe 4-5 grains.

If you go to the video then click on CLOSED CAPTIONING at the bottom of the screen Youtube will translate it into English from the Portugese. The translation leaves much to be desired and not all...

I highly doubt that powder coating would would be at all effective at keeping fouling soft. If the R.E.A.L. bullet were PC'd I'd still slather BP lube into the generous lube grooves. The R.E.A.L....

On a similar vein, 0000 buckshot shoots well in 36 cal cap & ball revolvers. I have a 0000 buckshot mold that cranks out .380 balls 10 at a time. BPI has 0000 buck but I don't know how hard it is.

Keep in mind that the Lyman molds for smokeless shooting are cut to throw the designated diameter bullet with #2 alloy. Using pure lead and casting the same bullet would throw a .001-.002 smaller...

I've carried C&Bs on a belt for finishing deer and coyotes during the fall & winter hunting seasons. I would be very careful to have no oil or lube that could directly contact the powder. I would put...

My first "real gun" was an 1861 Uberti Navy 36. I could not get the trigger/bolt screw out for the life of me for about 10 years in order to to a complete tear down cleaning. My cleaning regimen was...

I read where the picket bullet was hard to load so sometimes the soldiers would load them backwards when in a hurry. Any significant misalignment of the chamber to barrel could burst the gun when...

Any of the Italian reproductions will use the .457 round ball but their preferred size is .454. The soft lead will allow the .457s to easily chamber the larger diameter .457s as used in the Ruger Old...

Bent Ramrod said: "This is just my own impression, from a very limited sample.

Pietta seemed to have made a rather shaky start on a rather ambitious production program. They started out making...

I've seen a video of an attempt to ignite BP with an electric current and the BP would not ignite. The current went right through the grains. I believe the BP Lyman 55 has brass bushings rather than...