Like Don said, that's how they look coming out of clean water. If you run them thru a tumbler with, say, ceramic media and some sort of polishing solution (I use a burnishing compound) they will...
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Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Like Don said, that's how they look coming out of clean water. If you run them thru a tumbler with, say, ceramic media and some sort of polishing solution (I use a burnishing compound) they will...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
The OP asked for advice on guns for CAS, not about CAS itself. Why hit him with all these negative posts? Let the person determine for themselves if they want to get involved in CAS. Offering...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I understand now. There's compression. Then there's compression. You're correct about disassembling a charged case. As I got closer to the primer the powder was looser; it wasn't compressed the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Why is this a "disaster in the making" for a bottleneck cartridge? And just how hard is too hard when it comes to compressing the powder?
I've been compressing the powder in my .44-77 BN with the...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
So Rick, what are you doing in the original post?
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
No. APP loads like real BP. Treat it the same. It may or may not like a lot of compression, can't remember which. Either way it won't hurt you.
As for lube with APP (or Goex Pinnacle, which is...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You can't get too much BP in a brass cartridge to hurt a modern firearm made for smokeless powder - provided the gun is in proper working order / undamaged. Fill the case and mash a bullet down on...
Forum: BT Sniper
Are you setup for making dies to produce heeled bullets? I need a bullet that's got a 0.429" heel with a 0.452" body. The bullet will be loaded into a 44 Colt case and fired thru a .45-cal barrel.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Nobade pretty much covered it. I would caution you about annealing the cases, though. If you're not an experienced reloader and know what you're doing you can do more harm than good when trying to...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Yes.
As much as it could hold. Around 2.6cc volume if memory serves me correctly.
That's what's so nice about BP - you can't load too much.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
What size overshot card are you using? if it's smaller than 10 ga (11 ga or 12 ga) you're gonna have problems getting it to seal regardless of what you use.
In the past, I used a hot glue gun to...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
Did I miss something? I don't see a question regarding black powder paper patching. You might get better results asking these questions in the proper forum.
Forum: Swaging
PB - I have everything needed to cast and load heel-based 44 Colt rounds. If you'd like some bullets, or for that matter some loaded rounds to try, drop me a PM with your particulars. I can load...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You must be doin' this for a muzzle loader. Yep. Just saw "nipple".
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I hear ya, Big Ted. It's been years since I shot anything other than true BP. For me, it started with CAS. I eventually bought a Sharps. I use BP in everything now - rifle, pistol, shotgun,...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
I have a KAL mould and do everything you're doing now except I'm "pressure pouring" and I'm getting good bullets. I'm betting that pressure pouring (never heard it called that) will cure your...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I bought a bunch of plastic ammo boxes bulk. I write the loads on yellow sticky notes and put them in the boxes. When I've settled on a load, I use adhesive load labels on the inside of the lid.
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
Is there a reason (some of) you are not seating the bullet onto the card wad covering the lube?
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You can try Bernie Rowles @ Old West Bullet Moulds. If he doesn't have what you want on hand, he can make it. He's made a couple custom heeled bullet moulds for me over the years. His prices are...
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I'll second what Don said - not all Italian guns are made the same. Some are very fine guns, like Pedersoli. Some are garbage and should be avoided at all cost.
To be fair, the same could be...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
There's gonna be a BOGO sale on Bore over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Then we'll be calling it BOGO Bore.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
My first Sharps was a 1874 Pedersoli that my wife bought for me for Christmas back around 1995 I think. I bought a 1875 C. Sharps about 6 or 7 years ago. Still have it. It's a tack driver. Got a...
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 |