scrat, it's apparent that several of you here look upon this sub-forum as your own little kingdom, and that you can't wait to try to pick apart a newcomer's post.
This is the Blackpowder Shooting forum.....NOT the muzzleloading forum, civil war weapons forum, CAS forum or buckskinner's forum....shooting cartridges/guns designed in 1873 is plenty enough antique for this forum.....if blackpowder cartridges don't interest you, then pass over the thread.
I'll take issue with your unproven assertion that "most" BP shooters do their own casting/lubing......I'd go as far as to say that most BP shooters purchase 20:1 cast/soft-lubed bullets from specialty suppliers such as www.cowboybullets.com, or (and even more likely) shoot a majority of swaged balls from vendors such as Hornady and Speer, and that most black powder shooters have never run/cast a ball in their life, and certainly don't own a ball mold.....and many of these same shooters have struggled with getting commercial hard-cast to shoot well with BP before giving up in disgust.
Your comment of
The original post reached out to those/new sorts of shooters, not self-appointed experts. I have been casting/handloading/shooting for over 30yrs, and I wasn't born knowledgeable about any of this stuff.....and neither have been any of the new shooters that show up on sites like this...
New shooters might be more inclined to give BP cartridge or muzzleloading a whirl with simple-to-try kitchen-sink handloading, and might then move on to more advanced methods.....they are certainly scared off by experts proclaiming you have to cast your own soft bullets, buy speciality lubes, own/operate a lubrisizer, own double-boilers, convection ovens etc if you want decent results....my posts take issue with such assertions, and always will......so, why don't you cease and desist from trying to throw a monkey-wrench into things? I find it petty and meanspirited.
I didn't claim to invent pan lubing....it's NOT messy if the lube isn't left to goo consistancy, and sticky beeswax base will give 100% groove filling, and without tracking down a KakeKutter.
This is the Blackpowder Shooting forum.....NOT the muzzleloading forum, civil war weapons forum, CAS forum or buckskinner's forum....shooting cartridges/guns designed in 1873 is plenty enough antique for this forum.....if blackpowder cartridges don't interest you, then pass over the thread.
I'll take issue with your unproven assertion that "most" BP shooters do their own casting/lubing......I'd go as far as to say that most BP shooters purchase 20:1 cast/soft-lubed bullets from specialty suppliers such as www.cowboybullets.com, or (and even more likely) shoot a majority of swaged balls from vendors such as Hornady and Speer, and that most black powder shooters have never run/cast a ball in their life, and certainly don't own a ball mold.....and many of these same shooters have struggled with getting commercial hard-cast to shoot well with BP before giving up in disgust.
Your comment of
just leaves me scratching my head....most folk would agree "high velocity" and "black powder" are mutually exclusive terms, where you'd be lucky to see 1000fps with a .45Colt using black powder....and "we" don't all shoot C&B revolvers exclusively....Now we all know that low powered cowboy action loads is what we need to be shooting. Not high velocity loads. As we are shooting these out of Cap and Ball Revolvers. We talked about this before
The original post reached out to those/new sorts of shooters, not self-appointed experts. I have been casting/handloading/shooting for over 30yrs, and I wasn't born knowledgeable about any of this stuff.....and neither have been any of the new shooters that show up on sites like this...
New shooters might be more inclined to give BP cartridge or muzzleloading a whirl with simple-to-try kitchen-sink handloading, and might then move on to more advanced methods.....they are certainly scared off by experts proclaiming you have to cast your own soft bullets, buy speciality lubes, own/operate a lubrisizer, own double-boilers, convection ovens etc if you want decent results....my posts take issue with such assertions, and always will......so, why don't you cease and desist from trying to throw a monkey-wrench into things? I find it petty and meanspirited.
I didn't claim to invent pan lubing....it's NOT messy if the lube isn't left to goo consistancy, and sticky beeswax base will give 100% groove filling, and without tracking down a KakeKutter.
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