Please help me identify a BP rifle that has been sitting in my closet for 8 years.

[arcticap]

Once the sights are adjusted and a load is worked up, it should shoot with reasonable accuracy out to 75 - 100 yards. Every brand of gun, load and type of powder is different.
It does depend on the rifling twist rate somewhat too.
Do you know how to check the rate of twist?
Unlike when using other powders, the patched round ball (PRB) doesn't need to be rammed down too hard on top of 777 powder. It does need to be seated on top of the 777 powder and in contact with it, but not using too much force.
Other powders usually do like more compression.
It's important to ram with consistent pressure for best results.

 

[mickeydim468]

I was surprised at how much it sounded like my other rifles IE... my 30-06 or 300 Win Mag. I expected more of an explosion sound and didn't expect it to have that broke the sound barrier sound that you get with smokeless powder rifles. About 8 years ago I went with my family to a Mountain man rendezvous and we shot a muzzle loader there. I remembered it was louder and didn't sound like a modern rifle. I was sort of shocked when I shot my wife's gun. Where they using something different than I did as powder maybe?

 

[arcticap]

That other gun must have been loaded with a different powder and probably also had a larger bore.
777 powder has the sharpest felt recoil of all the powders and that's why Hodgdon specifies to use 15% less volume of it. Although its sharper pressure curve will still produce slightly more kick.
And coupled with the smaller .45 bore, it probably produces more of a crack sound too rather than the rip roaring bellowing boom of an explosion that black powder produces.
Pyrodex isn't quite as explosive out of a rifle as BP and requires a little more powder compaction, but the small grains of Pyrodex P flows and ignites fairly well and it does contain sulphur.
While 777 is a different animal, it does burn somewhat cleaner and contains less corrosive ingredients.

 

[foxdaleks]

i need help

i have the pistol in the pic and i am trying to find the ram rod i can not find a parts on line the gun store in town can't help me im trying to fix it up hope can help . foxdaleks

 

[Acorn Mush]

i need help

i have the pistol in the pic and i am trying to find the ram rod i can not find a parts on line the gun store in town can't help me im trying to fix it up hope can help . foxdaleks

You might try Deer Creek, address is 6989 East Michigan Road, Waldron, IN 46182-9726. Phone number (765) 525-6181.

You can always make your own ramrod out of hickory. For that type of pistol though, you can probably get away with a short piece of straight-grain dowel from the hardware store, unless you want to restore the original look.