Wads, cards, and lubes ( mercy, help old man out)

[canyon-ghost]

It came in, Midway sent it quick enough. It's an 1851 Colt made by Pietta, color case hardened steel frame. I like the looks of it. Degreased and cleaned it up, lots of black machine shop residue in the bore. No problem. The oil wasn't too hard to get rid of , either. Still waiting on other supplies to get here. Can't wait to get my hands on caps for this. The action isn't bad at all, as smooth as my Rugers! I think I'll enjoy this.

Again, thank you everyone for your help and advice!
Ron

[Jackrabbit1957]

Here's some thing to check, remove the wedge, separate the barrel and frame, see it wedge has free play in both slots, should be around an eighth of an inch in both.

[warren5421]

If you want an easy start use OxYok wads https://rmcoxyoke.com/product/ox-yok...ds-pretreated/

https://www.buffaloarms.com/reloadin...ries/wads.html

https://www.dixiegunworks.com/index/...aders?view_all

[LabGuy]

I know it doesn’t answer your question, but I charge with black powder, top off with enough Cream of Wheat so that the ball seats, the use a 50/50 bees wax/lard as lube over the ball.

[Super Sneaky Steve]

If you really want to learn how to load a cap and ball revolver watch this.
https://youtu.be/5vLzSw3XXi0

Felt wads are useless.

You need hard vegetable cards. Check Track of The Wolf, Dixi Gunworks or many other sites.

Repeatable compression is key. Watch these guys shoot. Look at their groups. These guys build the best mot accurate C&B revolvers you can buy.