BP pistol loading.

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When I load the .220 gr hollow points I have to back down to 30 gr of powder and lose the wad. It didn't seem to change the POI at all.
 
all jokeing aside has anyone tried buffalo bullet co's ,< ballets > in their revolvers ,there shaped like a elongated ball about 200grn in .45 very pricy over here but supposed to be good .
 
Never tried the Buffalo Ballets because of their cost but tis why I cast my own.

Yeah in my '58 with the 5.5" barrel it likes the 220 grainers over 30gr. FFFG Goex which produces about what a Schofield round would do, my Uberti '58 as had a max charge of 36gr. FFFG in it with a 220 grainer in it "nose of the bullet very close to the end of chamber" & it really rocks to what I think it to be close to what a .45 Colt load will produce.
Oh & like I said I don't see the need to use a wad when I use my conicals.
 
I didn't know it until recently that the lee .220 hollow poing .456 for the Old Army hasn't been available for some time now. Glad I found one when I did, the hollow point profile flattens the top of the bullet, and it won't scrape on the forcing cone at 30 gr. of black.
 
Are you loading this in a ROA or a Remington copy?
My Pietta '58 will take the 220gr. Lee Conical which drops at 222gr. & squeeze 36gr. FFFG but will almost touch the barrel, another reason I use 30gr. FFFG.
 
with out a word of a lie i found that by turning the conical bullets upsidedown in my ruger they grouped better than the proper way up ?.Has anyone tried it .
 
I tried the upside down bullet once & didn't like it, it shot OK but I didn't trust it for damaging my '60 Army.

I had another guy tell me that the Lee .456 shouldn't work in my '58 till I told him that I had Reamed the chambers to .451 to be .0015 over the grove diameter of the barrel.
 
i reamed the cylinder of my san marco walker took about 15 thou from it great improvement i am also now putting a .390 ball into my pocket police uberti by the way i got one of the last stainless pocket police to come from uberti,they dont make them any more i have it about 20 years now still shoots great .ill try and get a picture on for you to see
 
with out a word of a lie i found that by turning the conical bullets upsidedown in my ruger they grouped better than the proper way up ?.Has anyone tried it .
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Yup about 5 years ago...out of a Colt Dragoon's Chambers either way the groups sucked in comparison to Round Ball loads... The 255gr soft lead flat nose in a .45 Colt 35gr of real BP fffg worked xlint....That's my load for cart boolits...Other than that I prefer R.B. to Dum Dums.

SG
 
So reguarding the easy of loading bp, how come they haven't come out with powder pellets in .36 cal size?

they could have 3 variants like 15, 20 and 25 grains. I'd love to have that.
 
I'am in the market for a good quality loader for my 1847 Walker, If it works with the Walker I'll take one. thanks
 
do you guys not understand muzzel loading is for fun, load like it is was supposed to be done otherwise just shoot those brass things with lead in there nose . Bythe way Smokin-gun your nearly there .
 
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