Shawnee
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Hi Y'All...
This Traditions "Pioneer" .45 cal. arrived today and I have to decide about keeping it.
"Fit & Finish" is good-to-nice for that price range, trigger pull is approximately 312 lbs., sights are drift-adjustable-only, not too muzzle-heavy, grip feels decent.
Curious thing about it... though it is billed as a .45 caliber, the booklet recommends .440 lead balls with a patch thickness of .015 and says the most accurate load is likely 15-20 grs. and the max. load is 35 grs. Had sure hoped it could use the .451 and .457 balls I've got for my .44s. so there was no worry about confusing them back and forth BUT...
...I put a .451 ball to the muzzle and, though it could probably have been pushed in, it would have certainly taken some pushing (and I didn't "push the envelope", so to speak ). Is this common for a frontloader, Lads?
What say, Ye, Lads? Worth $175 ? :
This Traditions "Pioneer" .45 cal. arrived today and I have to decide about keeping it.
"Fit & Finish" is good-to-nice for that price range, trigger pull is approximately 312 lbs., sights are drift-adjustable-only, not too muzzle-heavy, grip feels decent.
Curious thing about it... though it is billed as a .45 caliber, the booklet recommends .440 lead balls with a patch thickness of .015 and says the most accurate load is likely 15-20 grs. and the max. load is 35 grs. Had sure hoped it could use the .451 and .457 balls I've got for my .44s. so there was no worry about confusing them back and forth BUT...
...I put a .451 ball to the muzzle and, though it could probably have been pushed in, it would have certainly taken some pushing (and I didn't "push the envelope", so to speak ). Is this common for a frontloader, Lads?
What say, Ye, Lads? Worth $175 ? :