I am new into the BP cartridge arena. I have a Forehand Arms 32 S&W breaktop revolver. It has a straight through bored cylinder @ .335 and a .314 bore. Due to this feature, the gun will take 32 S&W longs also, as the cylinder is plenty long enough. Suprisingly, the 32 S&W, shoots more accurately. The revolver leads like crazy with the standard lead bullets due to gas cutting. I have aquired a 90gr heeled bullet mold, with 2 thin .335 driving bands with an exposed grease groove. The driving bands seal the cylinder, and swage down easily to .314 in the forcing cone, and solved the leading issues. I have tried smokeless powder loads, with limited success, and now I am experimenting with a Goex 3F BP 6.0 gr load. I tumble lubed in LLA, which works fine for smokeless, but insufficient for BP.
For the BP, I had been smearing BP lube in the grease groove at the range, before loading the revolver. It's really messy. Is there a better way to lube the bullets in advance, after they have been reloaded, that's not so messy? I was sort of thinking of pan lubing. I could stand the loaded cases bullets down in the melted lube.
I am only getting 430 fps from the BP loading using the 32 S&W cases, but it shoots much more accurate than the smokeless loadings I have tried. Ironicly the 32 S&W long with 11 gr of BP, shoots only 35 fps faster than the 32 S&W with 6 gr of BP.