GregLaROCHE
02-01-2019, 10:23 AM
A while back I was asking a lot of questions about load PPBP cartridges. I got a lot of help and learned a lot of things I never would have thought about from the good folks here. Thanks a lot !
I finally got everything needed, as well as time, to build a cartridge to shoot. I used a NOE expander .460 on the case and sized a 405gn pure lead boolit to .450 and wrapped it with paper from Buffalo Arms. 50 grains of FF compressed, a card from a milk box, 1/8 inch greese cookie (beeswax, mutton tallow, lanolin and castor oil) 3/16 felt wad soaked in same lube as greese cookie and a card on top of that. With the boolit added OAL was 2.6 inches, the max an unfired cartridge will eject.
The boolit slid in nicely with just finger pressure. I taper crimped the first one, but after test chambering it, found that it got crimped even more. The rest I didn’t bother with the taper crimp. I think I need to size down more. Another order from NOE.
I made eight and fired only four out my back door, because it was getting late and the weather was bad. It was too cloudy and dark to see or recover any of the patches. No signs of leading in the barrel.
I cleaned the rifle with an Otis cleaning setup. It was the first time using one and I ended up putting patches over a .45cal brush to get it to work to my satisfaction. The barrel was dirty. It took a number of patches soaked in Ballistol until they came out clean. The good thing was the action stayed clean. When I started saying I wanted to shoot BP in a lever, all the experts (who had never done it) said not to do it. It would make a mess of the gun.
Thanks again for all the help and advice.
Greg
I finally got everything needed, as well as time, to build a cartridge to shoot. I used a NOE expander .460 on the case and sized a 405gn pure lead boolit to .450 and wrapped it with paper from Buffalo Arms. 50 grains of FF compressed, a card from a milk box, 1/8 inch greese cookie (beeswax, mutton tallow, lanolin and castor oil) 3/16 felt wad soaked in same lube as greese cookie and a card on top of that. With the boolit added OAL was 2.6 inches, the max an unfired cartridge will eject.
The boolit slid in nicely with just finger pressure. I taper crimped the first one, but after test chambering it, found that it got crimped even more. The rest I didn’t bother with the taper crimp. I think I need to size down more. Another order from NOE.
I made eight and fired only four out my back door, because it was getting late and the weather was bad. It was too cloudy and dark to see or recover any of the patches. No signs of leading in the barrel.
I cleaned the rifle with an Otis cleaning setup. It was the first time using one and I ended up putting patches over a .45cal brush to get it to work to my satisfaction. The barrel was dirty. It took a number of patches soaked in Ballistol until they came out clean. The good thing was the action stayed clean. When I started saying I wanted to shoot BP in a lever, all the experts (who had never done it) said not to do it. It would make a mess of the gun.
Thanks again for all the help and advice.
Greg