please share with me your loads/info about your 1851 navy 36 caliber

[whughett]

I have 2 powder flasks. 1 is black plastic and has a 20 gr spout filled with FFFg Goex the other is brass and has a 30 gr spout filled with FFFg Graf's Scheutzen.
I can cram 30gr into the chambers of my steel frame 36 cal Pietta 1851 Navy "Yank" but its messy. Real easy to overflow the powder on the cylinder face. I can then load a .375 Hornady ball with no wad on top of that powder using the loading lever.

20gr is much nicer - lots of room for a wad and ball. I'd wager 25gr would be perfect but need either another flask or nozzle.

Invest $11 in a Leedipper set, carry a small container of black, a few ounces, I use a wood box of my own making with a slip lid. Numbers 1.0 to 2.2 are part of the shooting box with 1.6 and 1.9 the most used. The numbers are CC which I’m guessing means cubic centimeters. The set will include a slide rule with the most if not all of the powders use in hand loading including all the F grades of black. Tens of thousands of handloaders have used them for decades. Old school at its simplest.

 

[J-Bar]

Invest $11 in a Leedipper set, carry a small container of black, a few ounces, I use a wood box of my own making with a slip lid. Numbers 1.0 to 2.2 are part of the shooting box with 1.6 and 1.9 the most used. The numbers are CC which I’m guessing means cubic centimeters. The set will include a slide rule with the most if not all of the powders use in hand loading including all the F grades of black. Tens of thousands of handloaders have used them for decades. Old school at its simplest.

As a rough rule of thumb, 1.0 cc is 15 grains of blackpowder. So the 1.6 cc dipper is throwing about 24 grains, and the 2.2 cc dipper holds about 33 grains.

I use the Lee dippers instead of a mechanical powder measure for charging brass cartridge cases, just what I got used to doing and have been continuing it.

 

[midland man]

As a rough rule of thumb, 1.0 cc is 15 grains of blackpowder. So the 1.6 cc dipper is throwing about 24 grains, and the 2.2 cc dipper holds about 33 grains.

I use the Lee dippers instead of a mechanical powder measure for charging brass cartridge cases, just what I got used to doing and have been continuing it.

thanks j-bar well that sounds good infact that would be handy for range work when I am just messin around and I do have a set of those dippers and a pistol measure as well but the 1.6cc dipper sounds great!

 

[John L Venable]

so is the .380 ball to big or just hard to press in the cylinder??

Most guys like to see that thin lead ring shaved off. a bit harder than a .375 to get seated.

 

[midland man]

Most guys like to see that thin lead ring shaved off. a bit harder than a .375 to get seated.

this one shaves a nice ring of lead and I mic'ed the chambers and these are right at .364 so yeah it shaves a good amount of lead and shoots very well! infact I took it out today and ran 30 shots thru it and had very tight groups on cardboard with the .375 balls! so next is a lee roundball mold to make my own!

 

[J-Bar]

this one shaves a nice ring of lead and I mic'ed the chambers and these are right at .364 so yeah it shaves a good amount of lead and shoots very well! infact I took it out today and ran 30 shots thru it and had very tight groups on cardboard with the .375 balls! so next is a lee roundball mold to make my own!

Cool! If it ain’t broke....