I was looking for the regular non cartridge BP forum - Somehow, today, I just can NOT see it. Probably because a friend was drunk texting me most of last night, GAAHHH, he's a good guy but young and loopy LOL - And I don't do well with disturbed sleep! So if a Mod feels the need to move this, please, feel free. I just dunno to where :P
Getting a BP revolver together, I've seen that (I assume to avoid the lube over the top of the balls) people sometimes use a funnel to drop the powder into the chambers. Could make a funnel with tubing and a cut off 30-30 case or something, my existing selection of funnels wouldn't do it but I do have tools.
So - Is there a better "donor" case for the purpose than a 30-30 out there? A nice long neck would be good, I probably will end up making a dedicated measure from another case for powder, safer than loading direct from a flask. If not a long neck I can always get brass tubing and braze / solder some to the case of course.
Or do people just find that the lube at the end of the chamber isn't an issue, so long as the lead ball's suitably sized I'd think it would mostly be dragged out on firing...
Getting an 1860 in .44 and planning .454 balls so it'll swage off a nice little ring