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Bill I had a 375 big bore years ago, ran it full house with soft lead gas checked boolits, shot ok at the time - but ok then woulda been 4 - 6" at 100yards with the barrel sights - I was recoil soft...

If you only shooting muzzleloaders you are home free first try - well done!
I used alcohol / water mix to dampen it at the start but I reckon I make better powder with just straight water - I also...

have a 94 winchester comemorative (Oliver F Winchester) in 38/55 - shoots that LEE 250 grain boolit straight from the mold over blackpowder - that combo is seriously accurate

hmmm thanks - theres a lot could go wrong with that plan on my backyard gear also a huge amount of scrap turnings - 348 cases are easy and surely would have been available when this was done?

It is !!

I dont know 2400 but my old Lyman book says 16 to 19 grains under a 255 grain cast ---is 23.5 a bit stiff ?
I proly go with the others that say boolit fit - first thing to try is unsized -

seen a couple of muzzleloader barrels with a nice little bulge just right at the base of a short started ball

22/250 barrel with a ring bulge near the muzzle (I believe that one was left in an...

I bought a little ultrasonic cleaner off ebay ($30 or so at the time) had a bag of citric acid on hand
so citric acid and a small dab of dishwash - takes about 15 minutes to clean reasonably fresh...

one of our best ML riflemen was accused (by a jealous competitor) of double loading because of several little pairs on his offhand target - he challenged the accuser to "show us how you do that" the...

just curious - you say "turned Brass" is it proper dimension internally or just bored straight with extra thick walls (have seen plenty of 450/577 martini brass made that way)

When I got mine it wouldnt cycle
The case rims wouldnt go fully home (to the rear) in the encircling part of the carrier --I assumed that was the problem and enlarged the rear of the carier (dremel...

yeah thanks ....Don too for reinforcing the message.

do you believer it was straight blackpowder ?

If you gonna use the full stroke of a jack, plus a long plunger, plus a tall die, thats a tall skinny arrangement ---needs to be neat and well set up (alignment) to be stable and safe. be careful you...

thats twice what I am doing !!

you got it !

not 6 x 100 ----trying to keep em thin so busting them up is less hassle, 5 or 6 at the time depends - usually get about 450 grams per press maybe a tad more.

die is 3 inch diameter PVC pressure...

my hornady book (third edition) lists winchester 760 for the 303 .....top load 50 grains for 2600FPS under the 150 grain spire point

have not done it but reckon that 760 load would be a full case...

same here pretty much
have a fibre board spacer (masonite the stuff they use under floor tiles) that goes on top of the puck stack (one underneath also) cut neat to the die body then my plunger...

been using divider since the get go - five or
six x 75 - 100gram pucks at the time - thin plastic dividers - milk jug but have made a few out of ice creame can (40thou plastic) which was why I...

yre overthinking this
plus getting un neccessary complex advice from guys who been doin this so long they forgot the KISS principle
we are plinkin with a pistol
1) if you have a boolit with any...

huge thumbs down on this -- thin sheet metal or plastic that moves under pressure is exactly what IS wanted - they are only dividers between the layers of material - believe you are overthinking this...

"nothing is impossible to the willing student"
I blew the nipple out of one of my post hole guns - shredded the metal on its way out - used a half charge so 6 inches of powder then rammed in six...

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From the Goex MSDS spec sheet 3/17/2009

2070fps

so if that is the burn speed of black powder - once the projectile is escaping at that velocitythe powder burn speed cant make it go any faster...