Well I took 'er out with a box of 350 gr. cast boolits, stoked with 3031 in 32~35 grains in one grain increments. Velocities ran around 980~1100 FPS. I am trying to duplicate black powder performance in my Uberti 1876 repro in .45-75. I'm not sure of my velocities though - I have one of those magnetospeed chronies and it wouldn't pick up the shot if I fired it in the conventional position - so I moved it from 6 oclock to 12 oclock - and it seemed to work. I'm told I need to be around 1380FPS and at least now I have a starting point.
After that I flogged 10 rounds stoked with FFg down the range just to make myself feel better about the whole thing. My question is - how many rounds can you send down the pipe before cleaning when you are shooting the manly propellant?
The reason I asked was that I fired two sub-3" groups off the bench (my gun has a wonderful Lee Shaver Vernier tang on it). Was I just lucky or can these guns actually shoot that good...? I didn't have enough ammo to spoil my streak...so maybe that is a good thing...? How do you guys manage your guns? Do you mop bores and do the blow tube thing like the BPCR guys...?