Recent content by beng

I have been reading and talking to others on the forum about Black Powder shooting. It came out very very good. I put it all together, powder loading, compression, bullets, cleaning, ballistic etc. I even found out how to make a "Hedgehog" A lot came from all of you...... I do have one...

I had been using smokeless powder, I am now starting to reload with Black Powder. I have the RCBS 45-70 die set. When I used smokeless, the bullet was seated down, .630 inside the case (OAL of bullet is 1.430 Brooks bullet) I have found out the round is better at a seat of, .500 but I...

I have read and heard from other good shooters that they do not resize the brass or crimp them, OK, How do you deprime the brass without using the resizer?

Have a hypothetical question. Say, if your bullet is to be seated down .500 and you compress you load down to that mark, if you use a veg. wad (.060) now you compress your bullet down to .560 would this be better than just a compression load of .500? beng

This is my first thread with THR. I do have a .44 Ruger Old Army and .44 Walker, that is all I know about black powder shooting. We have guys here at our club with 45-70; 45-90; 38-40 etc. We all shoot with smoke less powder. I have ask questions about BP shooting, loads etc, no one...