By older I mean 1880's firearms. The subject firearm is a Velodog Belgian Black powder Bicycle gun made sometime between the 1880's and possibly as late as the early 1900's. There is a thread on the firearm here:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ck-powder-22-centerfire.899465/#post-12158138
It is chambered in the obsolete 5.75 Velodog. Some places call it a 5.5 mm Velodog. It was a black powder centerfire cartridge about the size of a 22 magnum case designed to replicate a 22 LR. Maybe a little less powerful. Not sure how they got less than 700 fps with a case that large unless they were using a very heavy projectile. Even though the original loading used jacketed bullets my 'gut' tells me to use dead soft, or at least very soft, lead projectiles. This is because I "feel" that the steel could be of inferior quality. I have no way of knowing if it was made in 1881 or 1916. And there were a lot of advances in metelergy between those two years. What is available are the correct diameter lead bullets but with a gas check. I forgot to ask what hardness they are but I'm assuming they are harder than dead soft but not hard cast (really hard).
Will the gas check act like the fully jacketed bullets as far as how hard they are on a potentially soft(er) barrel? Am I overthinking this?
I can get the same bullets just without the GC installed. Kinda like a heeled bullet.
Your opinions are welcome.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ck-powder-22-centerfire.899465/#post-12158138
It is chambered in the obsolete 5.75 Velodog. Some places call it a 5.5 mm Velodog. It was a black powder centerfire cartridge about the size of a 22 magnum case designed to replicate a 22 LR. Maybe a little less powerful. Not sure how they got less than 700 fps with a case that large unless they were using a very heavy projectile. Even though the original loading used jacketed bullets my 'gut' tells me to use dead soft, or at least very soft, lead projectiles. This is because I "feel" that the steel could be of inferior quality. I have no way of knowing if it was made in 1881 or 1916. And there were a lot of advances in metelergy between those two years. What is available are the correct diameter lead bullets but with a gas check. I forgot to ask what hardness they are but I'm assuming they are harder than dead soft but not hard cast (really hard).
Will the gas check act like the fully jacketed bullets as far as how hard they are on a potentially soft(er) barrel? Am I overthinking this?
I can get the same bullets just without the GC installed. Kinda like a heeled bullet.
Your opinions are welcome.
