Last edited by Steppenwolf; 09-06-2018 at 05:38 PM.
That's a very interesting revolver, sure is something you don't see very often.
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I would shoot it cautiously. Maybe a .433 round ball over 2 grs of Bullseye. Old Belgian Revolvers don't have the best reputation but it may be a good one- respect it's age for sure. Neat gun!
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You can start with a 200gr boolit and a case full of BP. That may very well be what it was built to fire? Not sure how old it is.
Wayne the Shrink
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Had one years ago and shot it with a 44-40 bullet over a light charge of Unique with no problems. Bore and chamber were not up to spec but it shot OK.
If you go with black powder then it's however much fits under the bullet with light to moderate compression. You don't want an air pocket because that will cause erratic ignition/combustion.
I would lean more towards very light smokeless loads with Trail Boss, bullseye, or any other lite pistol powder. The lite cowboy load info should work great as well.
Steppenwolfe,
I believe that you'll find that that revolver is built in a very similar fashion to the .450 Adams British revolver, that was popular with British officers for years.
I believe (presuming that it is suitable condition to be fired at all) that a case full of BP behind a correctly sized PBCB of about 200 grains would be FINE.
(MANY a Western cowboy packed one of the Belgian "Frontier Models" for years & years. as SEARS & ROEBUCK sold them out of the "Big Book" well into the 20th Century. = S&W, Colt, M&H and other American marks were FAR from the only shooting irons of the working cowpokes.)
yours, tex
I had basically the same pistol back in 70s. It looked the same only had birch, yellow looking grips
and lanyard ring in the butt. Gun was in fair shape. I loaded it with 200gr cast /4gr unique and
I cracked a cylinder on 1st round.
Drm50,
To my knowledge, Adams-patent revolvers were never designed for smokeless powder, but were quite serviceable for BP loads.
yours, tex
Last edited by texasnative46; 09-10-2018 at 07:45 PM. Reason: typo
I think the 200 grain bullet with 35 grains of powder to start. Do you use a card wad between the powder and the filler with bullet? Thanks for all the replies.
I load mine with about 36gr Goex FFFG compressed, no card wad, and the Big Lube 200gr boolit. I shoot Uberti's but would use that load with yours.
Wayne the Shrink
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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 |