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I can only point out from personal experience that smaller calibers are less forgiving of the loading process and foul out the sooner...dosen't mean they arn't accurate but one must be more deliberate in his loading and shooting.

A warning to young people... It is VERY tempting to get into the bigger is better/speed trap of youth...resist it lest Cato fall on his sword

add a bit of castor oil...the lube I use for BPCR shooting is beef tallow, bees wax and castor oil...I can connect at 500 meters about half the time which is good for a new rifle...iron sights

Learning to shoot. by Blackfork -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you don't shoot competition, you don't learn to shoot, period, IMPO. Or I haven't seen it. About this time of year people start dusting off their deer rifles and go out...

semi-smokless existed in the era before the general use of smokless...it was meant to bulk up the same as black powder...a huge percentage of the hunters of the day reloaded. King's Semi Smokless is the only one I can name. used dram for dram in place of black in shotshell reloading.

semi smokless?

I shoot a 40-65 Win and must make brass for it (I can buy brass but get better quality if I make my own) PM me if you want and I will help...I have made 40-60 brass for a friend to shoot in his 76 Win

buckshot comes in 5 pound bags...you may have to order it from someone who usually carries bird shot...I have most of a bag of number 4 buck shot right in front of me...bought for a LaMatt revolver with 20ga shotgun barrel in the middle...way too much recoil with a regular 20 ga load

one of the WM stories I know of: Working in a gun shop back in the 70's a guy came in asking about black powder supplies. During our conversation he mentioned that WM carried black powder. We were supprised so after he left we called and asked the woman who was in sporting goods about black...

must be regional...they sure don't carry it in Northwest Arkansas

I'm from WM's home area and yes they did carry reloading many years ago...after stupid people blew off various parts of their anatomy, WM quit carrying the stuff...the WM philosophy is to pay for dumb help and not encourage shootin the breeze with the customers and we all know that reloading...

When using your own cast bullets...pay attention to the lube...it makes a difference and we're eat up with short cuts these days

I used heavy bullets for years in a Marlin. As I got older and realized I wasn't actually hunting with it anyway, I found that lighter bullets were more fun to shoot...I've had an original Springfield carbine, a Ruger number one and a marlin and the marlin was the worst to beat up the...

For myself (over 40 years of reloading) I approach the reloading as a additional level to my hobby...if it is just a chore so you can shoot, you might be dissapointed...it is, in fact, a bonus dimention

"See, You have a prime opportunity here to take advantage of and don't even see it.... You can now tell the wife you need to buy a 50 foot boat because your scale won't work on the one you got..." I got over being married back in 1984 and marriage has been in complete remission ever...

Here's a little project while we're on the subject: I have been thinking of moving aboard a sail boat...prolly in the 35 foot range. I do not intend to give up reloading but the beam scales won't work even in a quiet harbor...not sure how to handle the problem

A caution here...those cases are now too short for your chamber and may stretch or even seperte at the head...they are hard to salvage but it is possible. if you are new at this, don't try to salvage them as you have much more to lose than to gain...

Priming powder on this side of the pond is generally FFFFg and inappropriate for revolver use...time to think about getting a flint lock

40-65...clean and prime shell (not re-sized), load 63g of Swiss FFFg and place a tight fitting fiber wad over powder, place the charged shell in the press with special compressing die and compress to make room for bullet which is then finger seated on top of the wad...handle carefully because...

50 shots outa one flint then 4 outa the next...slow lock time but unimportant in blank shooting...practice with glasses on!