Griffen
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I would like to load some 45 colt black powder metallic cartridges to shoot in one of my conversion revolvers. The components involved are Starline brass, Winchester large pistol primers, OE 3f black powder, and 250 gr Meister MB-45-250 bullets. Using the OE 3f, the case will be full enough to fill the space using 35 gr, but that is a little hotter than I might want and I am concerned about the lube situation.
I use a dry lubed wool wad in my cap and ball revolvers and have good success.
the questions:
1. I can’t determine from any source if the above Meister bullets use SPG lube. Does anyone know?
2. I can use the dry lube wads to take up some space and thought separating the wad with a 7/16” cardboard cut out from a milk carton or the like might keep the powder from getting fouled over time on the cartridges. This would allow about 30 gr of powder in the load and would be near authentic round velocity as loaded for the US Army back in the day. Has anyone tried this? I can find a lot of info on paper cartridges (and have made lots of those), but little on metallic and lubed wads.
Thanks in advance for the responses,
Griffen
I use a dry lubed wool wad in my cap and ball revolvers and have good success.
the questions:
1. I can’t determine from any source if the above Meister bullets use SPG lube. Does anyone know?
2. I can use the dry lube wads to take up some space and thought separating the wad with a 7/16” cardboard cut out from a milk carton or the like might keep the powder from getting fouled over time on the cartridges. This would allow about 30 gr of powder in the load and would be near authentic round velocity as loaded for the US Army back in the day. Has anyone tried this? I can find a lot of info on paper cartridges (and have made lots of those), but little on metallic and lubed wads.
Thanks in advance for the responses,
Griffen