Hello everyone
I had picked up a Nepalese Snider a year or two ago and I just got around to it. I have 20 or so pieces of Mag Tech brass from the friend that I got the rifle off of.
I have some round balls and I also have an accurate mould that he gave to me. He said he always had more accuracy with the round balls though.
I do not have a set of dies and was told that I should be able to load this without dies as long as a stick with BP
I'm not a stranger to what needs to be done when reloading black powder cartridges but I have yet to do it myself.
My plan was to load these with a round ball to fire form and then use the conical once I have fire formed brass.
Any suggestions on other components or loading techniques? I was planning on loading BP, then a card wad, then a cornmeal or similar filler. I was told that dipping the loaded rounds into Udderly Smooth hand cream before firing was a good way to "lube" and keep the fowling very soft.
I would prefer to keep this as simple os possible. This is more of a novelty and not really a passion of mine (hoping the bug doesn't bite me) I might load the batch of brass a handful of times a year to make some smoke and introduce some shooter to something different from time to time
Thanks for all of the input.