Original 1855 rifle musket. New style 575213 minnie over 60 grains of 3F. Pure lead, not alloy or wheel weights. Minnie lubed with MCM in the grooves and about 1/3 filled base. Accurate to 100...
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
Original 1855 rifle musket. New style 575213 minnie over 60 grains of 3F. Pure lead, not alloy or wheel weights. Minnie lubed with MCM in the grooves and about 1/3 filled base. Accurate to 100...
Forum: Casting Equipment
OK - Lee is getting an undeserved bad rap. I have been using a Lee Pro-4 20 lb bottom pour pot for 20 years now. It never fails. It occasionally drips, but a quick turn of the stem fixes it. ...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Paper cartridges for a Smith Carbine? Like a Sharps? The india rubber (or newer plastic) cartridges were designed to expand on firing to seal the breech. Without a cartridge, the gas would blow...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I bought a Traditions Buckstalker this past season, and love it. Came with a a 3x9 on it, and it has a quick-remove breech plug that needs no tools. Uses 209 primers. I shoot a 240 grain 45 lead...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I shoot 80 grains of 2F Goex under a .530 RB and .015 ticking/patch that I soak with crisco/beeswax and let dry the night before I go afield. Loads tight, shoots tight out of my half-stock Hawken .54...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I use the PBII, and have had a similar problem over time. I just ended up recently getting fed up, and bought the case-activated linkage upgrade. A superior and vast improvement, and sorry I didn't...
I have an original Sharps, arsenal converted to 50-70 that shoots just fabuloso. I keep the loads mild to keep from hammering the gun unneccessarily, but it shoots the Lyman 515141 like it was made...
the old '73 is in 'Group 1' category for reloading purposes, meaning the weaker toggle-link action. According to Lyman #49,:
205 grain Cast #427098, Unique, 6.3 grains, 895fps - Remarks: Group 1;...
Forum: Leverguns
First - look in a good loading manual. There are two levels of loads for the 44-40 in the Lyman 49th. For the Henry, stick to loads in the weaker action category. For Unique, I believe that puts...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
One other 'trick of the trade' with these muskets - if it is not glass bedded... ensure the tang screw is tight, and the barrel bands are only snug (not over tight). That will give you the best...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
+1. The PH Musket was specifically designed to shoot the minie ball. Poor accuracy could be attributed to too stout a charge, blowing the skirt, or too hard lead. As varsity07849 stated...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
As I stated, many were converted for the purposes of standardizing ammo. But there were other .54's in service as well (Lorenz, Jager, etc) that were designed for conicals, so .54 muzzle loader ammo...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
How did these same rounds perform w/o the GC? In my experience, GC's only really serve to allow faster MV without leading above around 1800 fps or more. No real purpose in BP applications. If the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The issue you are having with the minnie is not the barrel twist rate, or the hardness of the lead (although that can contribute if not dead soft).... it is the barrel rifling. Rifling cut for a PRB...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
No problem, it was nothing really - just a cut and paste. Now if I could figure out how to make the columns all line up right!
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
From LoadData/Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook:
6.5 Japanese / 6.5x50mm Arisaka (Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook) Reloading Data n
Warning! Notes: cases: Norma; trim-to length: 1.978"; primers:...
Forum: Military Rifles
Try the S & K Insta-Mounts for ex-military rifles. They are a no-gunsmith mount that does not require any drilling - uses existing holes, and the rifle is not modified in any way. I have one on my...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Thanks all -
I switched to a 6-oclock hold on the bull, and that helped tremendously - must be my 'center' hold was wandering around the bull since the sights and the bull are both black... the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I am trying to get the best groups from my .54 halfstock Pennsylvania rifle. I shoot a .530 round ball and a .016 patch over 80 grains of 2F bp. I get groups that are fine at 50 yards, so I am...
What is meant by 'properly' please? I used a center punch, put 3 heavy 'stake' marks around each pin. If I put too much oomph on the center punch, the faces of the mould are 'beagled' in effect...
Hoping this is not a repeat - if it is, apologies up front.
I have two Lee 6-cavity moulds, and on both, the alignment pins do not stay put - they migrate out into the face of the mould so that the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Many original .54's were sent back for arsenal modification to the new (then) standard .58 cal so there would be less logistical issues with more types of ammo required on the field.
Forum: Leverguns
The chamber is long enough to fit the long brass - and the gun functions fine with it when coupled with the Lyman 375248. Just the Lee doesn't work with the long brass. It works with the standard...
Forum: Leverguns
I have tried the Lee boolit, and in long Starline brass, crimped at the crimp groove, the OAL was too long to function thru the action of an original Win94. It would chamber fine if single loaded,...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Idahoron, that certainly is good work, but I have to ask - why bother with a pp on a minie at all? What does the pp actually accomplish that a properly sized minie can't on its own? Am I wrong to...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |