All my lever guns shoot black, 44WCF and 38WCF and a 45-90. I love reloading with lead and black powder!
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Forum: Leverguns
All my lever guns shoot black, 44WCF and 38WCF and a 45-90. I love reloading with lead and black powder!
Forum: Leverguns
Congrats on the 86. I have a Miroku 86 in 45-90. Love how it shoots and feels, looks were Very plain so last month I stripped her down, discarded the tang safety and hand made a fire blued steel...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Ok, first batch of 200 dropped out of the mold (Lyman 427666) on average of .429/430. Lubed and loaded would not easily chamber in the pistols but the rifles were fine (all Uberti). Ran them through...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Thank you everyone. I too have read extensively, the writings of Mr. Kort and many others! I'm a research hound. I've tried the Big Lube, still have about 300 in .428 (Don't like how long they are as...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Thanks Outpost, they are Uberti Cimarron Model 1866 short rifle, 1873 short rifle, 1873 black powder frame pistols, ASM Taylor's Model 92 short rifle and a Uberti 1873 pre-war framed pistol all in...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Bigted, I bulged a barrel in my japchester '66, about 3/4 of the way down shooting black powder and .428 solid bullets with no apparent reason for the bulge. That was in February '20 form a gun I...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
As a SASS shooter, I shoot 44WCF in all my main match guns except a lone 38WCF pistol, they are all loaded with various black powders, including 12g shotgun (I use whatever is cheapest for SASS)....
Forum: Leverguns
I've been shooting BP for over 40 years. I've never had any issues with corrosion shooting muzzle loaders, cap and ball, cartridge and shotgun. I clean my guns, smokeless and BP after I shoot them....
Forum: Leverguns
As others have stated, the chamber is the deal breaker. My Uberti rifles slug .429 bore, .430 groove. they wont chamber though so I use .428 cast lead, I can hit 100 yard turkey steel plates off hand...
Forum: Leverguns
Pretty sure, like most other modern guns, its an arsenic finish, true color case hardening is ridiculously expensive and time consuming. Look at Turnbull Restoration.
Forum: Leverguns
I looked at the Rossi 92 but got a Taylors short rifle in 44-40 because it looks and feels identical, right down to the oiled stock, to my Dad's 38-40 made in 1914, except of course for being brand...
Forum: Leverguns
I gre up with my dad's 92 in 38-40 so my first lever gun was a Taylors (ASM) 92 in 44-40. Its a Work of Art! Feel so light and nimble, its still my favorite. I shoot Classic Cowboy in SASS, that...
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 |