First shots with new Uberti 1861 Navy

[mustanger98]

Folks can be in dismay at my statement ... but here goes,

Been shooting Cap n Ball revolvers since the 70's [1970's] and even tho I love my paper cartridges, I can say with certainty that by a large margin ... my round ball loads over 22 grains 2Fg OE powder and sparked with CCI cap's ... then a lube filling the cylinder mouth ... has hands down ... been the absolute best and most accurate loads I have ever shot in any 36 cal revolver. I use SPG lube and my 60/40 bee wax/Vasoline mix. Both do great but gotta say ... ( better brace yourselves) ... plain ol crisco as an over ball lube. This do require a towel or two tho so as to wipe down hands and revolver time to time.

Ted

Yup, Crisco will do it. With Georgia heat, you wouldn't want to carry it like that, or leave it in a hot car, but for plain old shootin', Crisco'll do it.

 

[TheOutlawKid]

One thing i also do with tuning my guns is i shave down the hammer face so that it barely makes contact on the nipple or have a space about .002 inches. Keeps the nipples and hammer face from taking a beating. After i shaved down all my hammer faces to be about .002 away from the nipples and filled in the hammer slot i had no issues with cap jams, the caps ended up just staying on the nipples. Ive seen blackies video on venting the stock nipples...and it works great..although most stock nipples are too small for a good snug fit on most percussion caps. Ive noticed that you get a lot more fouling in the nipple area and the hammer if the caps arent a tight fit. I use stock nipples for my homemade percussion caps as they fit great...the slixshot nipples are a little too big for my homemade caps.