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wow, never heard of these....of to search! cursed.....

Not for me personally. If I don't have time to do a complete tear down and clean, I'll take something else to the range.

cleaning properly is the must that often gets looked over. Understand that water is needed to remove the corrosive salts formed from BP and many of the substitutes. I take mine fully apart and wash in a bucket of hot soapy water.....yep! Dry things off and put it in the oven for ten minutes...

Gunbroker seems fairly full of them as well....

Yes, I meant black powder cartridges in original BP guns. Unless the law has changed, Virginia allows this as of a few years ago.

gotta find one first!

Some states now allow vintage black powder cartridge rifles to be used in muzzle loading season. Who has that option now?

pure lead will really help the bullet expand under the pressure to the bore diameter. The roundball load is basically a .457 round ball, lubed with lee liquid alox. I think the charge was 40 gr of 3F, but I used Pyrodex P. Used a felt wad over the powder and seated the ball with a short...

Great discussion, sorry I couldn't join back in until now. My question about using another cylinder was the thought that the cylinder on an original could be the weak link if it was in poor condition. If I come across one in safe condition, i would use it, with some slight load reductions and...

Glad ya'll are having success shooting them flat base .458 slugs. My '84 trapdoor slugs out at .465" and has a near mint bore. I haven't got around to casting the Lee hollow base slugs yet but have made up and shot some of the round ball loads from the Pat Wolf book. Shot very well! Was...

Wonder who in the group has experience with the originals? I have pondered getting one in "shooting" condition, and my safety concern would mainly be in the cylinder. Do any of the Italian reproduction cylinders stand a chance of working? Figured it might need a new hand and some timing...

The kid will take care of you, I got some from him and hope to shoot real soon! Great looking slugs too.

What size ball diameter have you been loading? Most .32 slugs for pistol cartridges are in the range of .311-.314" depending on the application.

Hoarding mode...drives me nuts.

Midway was having a good sale on round balls recently, might still be on. I got some for like $8.50 for .454". Only Bass Pro has them here for almost $20 a box....yikes.

Not a bad thought Mr. Skater. Just learn all you can with vids, and only shoot when you have time for a proper cleaning in a reasonable time frame. FULL disassembly is the safest bet. Make sure you have some (even cheap set) of gunsmith screw driver bits. They have proper ground profile on...

probably. I say this because 20 years ago I tried to order a '49 Colt repro from Dixie gun works. Bought the required nipple wrench and some balls. The nipple wrench was much smaller than the run of the mill nipple wrench most places sell for C&B guns. After about 7-8 months of waiting and...

they do look nice.

sorry you had a frustrating time, it can happen. My worst even was last time I put lube over the top of the balls, and it was way too liquid. Forgot now what I used, but it was a warm day. Each shot sent showers of liquid into the empty neighbor chamber, and of course I didn't know this until...

I like that Lee .44 conical in a couple of my guns.