New guy on this forum, old guy in real life, NRA member since 1968 when I shot my first duck!
I've owned my Springfield trapdoor (Standard issue, 32" barrel, 1883 cartouche) for almost 5 years now but last spring I started hand loading rather than purchasing low pressure smokeless loads. Natural progression was to load Black Powder using both 405 and 500 gr bullets.
Then I made some ornamental (but functional) .45-75 loads for Dad's (he's 86) Winchester Centennial 1876 Sporting rifle. I say "Ornamental" because these loads I used Pyrodex.(Yeah, I know! But hey, they'll never see the barrel of the 1876)
A buddy on another board put this journey into his blog and this is the result (Italics lettering my story, he opens with an intro)
Hope you enjoy it!
http://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/201...k-in-time.html