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I have found .457 minie (120grains)... is it worth buiyng some? Has someone tried this kind of bullets in revolvers?

Hi, I bought one remington(pietta) .31 tiny thing (4" barrel, I think), and filled the chambers with 12grains of swiss1 and .315 round balls (hornady)... it gave 362.7m/s... I'm quite impressed... I thought we would reach .22 performance, not .32 auto... Anyway, I have to find better...

I have had interesting discussions with some 'experts' on the forum regarding the easiest way to measure pressures in a black powder revolver during a shoot... I'm sorry to have to share with you that it is quite hard to do without destroying a revolver (to insert sensors). For instance, I...

I have had many discussions about it already... But the responses I received where only based on traditions... Not facts and/or knowledge. ("you must not do this or you will break your gun...your hand...yourself...your neighbours..etc."). Well... I like the people giving warnings... They care...

I have never succeeded in finding any picture of a gun/revolver having been blown apart by an excess of Real black powder... If you have some, please could you explain how it happened?

Hi, I'm a noob in BP... discovered it a few months ago, but love it :) Then I wanted to know how it felt to load one as if I was 150 years ago... which means: to defend my life, make the more damages with only BlackPowder and lead (remain "authentic")... as I suppose I would if I was...