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Thanks. Whoever modified bit before I got it did a very nice job. The barrel may have been shortened by the armory from 36" to 32 5/8", as some 1500 of these rifles were. But the armory certainly...

It didn't like the 55 grain loads, I'm going back to 60 grains, which grouped much better. Not going to resize this time.

Thanks, it has been quite an odyssy to resurrect it. When I got it the stock was in five pieces held together by the metal bits, which were in surprisingly good condition. I was not able to do...

Update: shot the 60 grain loads today and it printed much better. The top three shots are from before I blacked both sights, and figured out where to aim, which turned out to be a few inches below...

Thanks Dave. I added an additional .050" wad and seated the bullet deeper to make sure there is no air space.

So no problem going five grains less on the powder charge, assuming everything else is right? Five grains seems like a lot to a metallic reloader such as myself.

I'm very new to black powder reloading, but very much not new to metallic cartridge reloading having loaded in the neighborhood of 50k smokeless rounds in various modern calibers. I'm restoring a...