Roswell 1847
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I tried a .451 185 grain swaged lead semi wadcutter made for the 45 ACP once years ago.
The pistol was the rebuilt brass frame .44 bellygun I've mentioned earlier on. My modifications have made it much stronger than a stock brass frame revolver.
The chambers were on the tight side for a .44 and .451 balls fit nicely though not really tight and with no ring of lead shaved so I tried the .451 Lead wadcutter over a light load of around 24 grains of FFFG and a number 10 cap.
I only had a couple of these semi wadcutters that were among some reloading supplies a friend gave me when he cleaned out his shop before moving, so no extended test firing was possible. This brass .44 only has a three inch barrel and very little rifling (The Barrel was a mess when I got it)so accuracy tests wouldn't have revealed much.
All I can say is the semi wadcutter fired without any problems and hit where it was pointed.
Punched a nice neat round hole in a scrap piece of 3/8 inch plywood. Looked like it had been drilled with one of those tublar lock fitting bits.
I don't know as how I'd recomend it for most replica guns but a properly size bullet of the same type shouldn't be a problem for the Ruger Old Army or the Walker and Dragoon pistols.
The pistol was the rebuilt brass frame .44 bellygun I've mentioned earlier on. My modifications have made it much stronger than a stock brass frame revolver.
The chambers were on the tight side for a .44 and .451 balls fit nicely though not really tight and with no ring of lead shaved so I tried the .451 Lead wadcutter over a light load of around 24 grains of FFFG and a number 10 cap.
I only had a couple of these semi wadcutters that were among some reloading supplies a friend gave me when he cleaned out his shop before moving, so no extended test firing was possible. This brass .44 only has a three inch barrel and very little rifling (The Barrel was a mess when I got it)so accuracy tests wouldn't have revealed much.
All I can say is the semi wadcutter fired without any problems and hit where it was pointed.
Punched a nice neat round hole in a scrap piece of 3/8 inch plywood. Looked like it had been drilled with one of those tublar lock fitting bits.
I don't know as how I'd recomend it for most replica guns but a properly size bullet of the same type shouldn't be a problem for the Ruger Old Army or the Walker and Dragoon pistols.