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Way more bearing surface. Like an aluminum jacketed bullet.

Isn't pretty much all IMR powder the same thing chemically? Just different shapes and coatings on it.

I got a lot from David Tubb's books regarding offhand technique.

Get a set of rimfire silhouette swingers and practice with those at the correct range. Hitting those more than 80% of the time is...

Don't do that. Not only will it not shoot well but aluminum oxide run through a barrel really fast with lots of pressure behind it is not beneficial to the barrel. Why not just use paper? Paper...

I'm not saying much but sure learning a lot. It's amazing that a $4K riflescope is starting to look reasonable.

Interesting, in that he used water and dextrin to hold it together rather than the nitro glue for everything. I wonder which way would work better? Thanks for the link.
Those molds are pretty...

Yes. Don't do it unless you have to.

I make a new one and dovetail it in. But if you want to keep it stock, silver solder.

My New Englander does really well with .715" bare balls. I do have to wipe after a couple of shots though. I don't have the one with the choke, just a cylinder bore.

Ah, I just realized that Lee makes two 405 grain bullets. One is for smokeless, casts out at .457 or so,takes a gas check, and has tiny lube grooves. That one is useless for black powder. The one you...

My wife used to work in a pulp mill in Ketchikan. Their two main customers were Alliant Energetics and the food industry. It makes great gunpowder, and diet food.

Use soft lead and good BP lube and it won't lead. I shoot gobs of those through my Trapdoor with no problem at all.

Those are good looking cartridges, much better than mine came out! You could test the rifle by possibly wrapping paper or other material around the action when you fire it to see if that gets burned...

I have a mould from Accurate that throws a .350" bullet about 210 grains. I use it in my 35 caliber inline muzzleloader, and paper patch it for the 35 centerfires. It does have tumble lube type...

My wife has one of those from about the same vintage. A few years ago it also stopped working, I bought a repair kit and fixed it. I don't remember it being terribly difficult to do, there is one...

Yep, nothing but black powder loads for my H&R and Marlin 38-55. Marlin likes the Lee 250 and the H&R gets a 280 gr. paper patched bullet from an Accurate mold. Easy to load for and very nice to...

I tried linen cartridges and gave up on them, no benefit over paper and a lot harder to make. For a bullet I have settled on the Guy France design from Moose Moulds, sized to .540" to fit the throat...

If you have any Cerrosafe you can pour a relatively long slug and push it through the bore to check for tight spots and twist rate changes.

There's a big difference between nitrated paper soaked in KNO3 and flash paper, cellulose turned into nitrocellulose by soaking in nitric acid like magicians use. make sure you're talking about the...

That will work. Cast them as soft as you can for best effect. Enjoy the new adventure! There's a learning curve there but once you get it things work great and the 45-70 is the best place to start...

Yep, noticed that in his other threads as well. I guess if nothing else he gets the rest of us here talking about different topics. But there needs to be a special punishment for evil scammers...

The 45 caliber rifle molds are too big. You need something that is just over bore diameter so you can patch it to groove diameter. .452" bullets that end up around .460" after patching.

Using smokeless, a good way to get started patching for 45-70 is to use some 300 grain bullets made for the 45 colt. They're the right size already to patch and you don't need a custom mold right...

Oh well, we tried.

Not odd, just well made and finished. They are supposed to be like that.