Ugly Sauce
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Sure would like to see a picture of your holster.
Will do tomorrow.
Sure would like to see a picture of your holster.
Makes me kinda curious how fast a 36 ball would be flying with 30 grains behind it - anyone chrono? Can you do that is, say, a conical or other type of slug?
I'm not sure on the max, but in my gun I run 24 grains of 4fg underneath a slug, which leaves some space above the nose of the bullet, enough that I don't worry about a bullet that does not want to seat deep enough in the field. I think when I was doing load development I put in 26 grains without intending to, and that maxed it out with the LEE bullet, one or two chambers I had to shave the nose off the bullet so that the cylinder would rotate. But 24 grains of 4fg under a 140 grain slug that I have that is only a hair longer than the LEE bullet pops off pretty good.
My guess is that it would hold at least 30 grains under a ball. Next time she's unloaded I'll fill the chamber to the brim, dump it out and weigh it. I'd be curious as to how much a '51 will hold, if anyone is interested in that.
I think off-the-gun loading presses are only $25-30.With the lack of supplies AND parts, I'd hate to break anything on my BP guns - repairing them might be difficult.
A single action revolver only has about 7 moving parts, a lot less to brake than a semi-auto. My"cap guns" are my go to pistols, one is always loaded. I have 2 semi autos and 4 or 5 cartridge pistols.With the lack of supplies AND parts, I'd hate to break anything on my BP guns - repairing them might be difficult.
Some interesting ballistic data here:
http://poconoshooting.com/blackpowderballistics.html
This guy got velocities as high as 1250 ft/s shooting 80-grain .375 balls with a Pietta 36-caliber 1858 Navy having a 6.5-inch barrel. He did that by compressing 35 grains of 3F Pyrodex into the chambers. (Pyrodex is more compressible than black powder.)
I don't think I want to blow a gun up, and these BP revolvers are NOT the worlds strongest steel. But that's cool.
T7 is hot! It's possible to overdo that stuff. Ima real fan but try to restrain myself, "a little".
Does anyone practice the Hodgdon T7 15% reduction advisory? I do, sometimes.