Big Al Mass
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Is the increase in pressure due to the 4f being inside the pellet? What I was thinking of doing was just dropping a pinch of the stuff into the chamber before loading up.
Pyrodex Pellets in a Revolver
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Driftwood Johnson
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The increase is because the grain size is so small with FFFFg. The amount of energy (pressure) produced when Black Powder is burned is related to the size of the grains. Smaller grains have a larger surface area to weight ratio and burn faster. In addition, you are adding BP where none is needed. Pyrodex is not real Black Powder, it is a Smokeless powder that has been altered to behave like Black Powder. Putting Black Powder and Smokeless together in the same round is called making a Duplex load and it is only for very experienced reloaders, not rank beginners.
Why not just put the pellets in the gun and shoot them the way the manufacturer intended, rather than start experimenting before you have even fired one shot?
Why not just put the pellets in the gun and shoot them the way the manufacturer intended, rather than start experimenting before you have even fired one shot?
Shinbone
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I thought that I read on the container to not crush the pellets when using them? How do you keep from doing that when seating the ball, if that is so? Or am I misunderstanding?
Big Al Mass
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I am not talking about a duplex load. I was thinking that just a pinch of 4f would provide a more intense flame to set off the pellet. And by a pinch I mean all that can be taken up between the thumb and index finger, really a miniscule amount.
arcticap
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Driftwood Johnson said:
If modern smokeless powder is defined as containing some type of nitrocellulose then Pyrodex is not a smokeless powder.
Pyrodex has the same ingredients as black powder does with the addition of potassium perchlorate which is a common oxidizer that's used in fireworks.
The ingredients are listed in the Pyrodex MSDS:
http://www.hodgdon.com/PDF/MSDS%20Files/Muzzleloading/Pyrodex.pdf
col.lemat
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About 50 years. Not just shooting you have to build several rifles and pistols also.
No,
no, no, no. Don't do that. Cap and ball revolvers are not complicated and they don't need magicians tricks to fire safely and effectively. How about just forgetting the pellets and getting some Goexx FFF blackpowder. Fill chamber, load ball, grease chamber mouth, cap nipples, and pull trigger.
I know you're new to all of this but really, don't overthink it.
Big Al Mass
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Fair enough. My brother tried the pellets over the weekend (jerk didn't take me with him) and they fired just fine by themselves.
You mean me?
If this was for me.... I'd shot six caps to start and three cylinders full of loads that had been loaded from my powder flask before trying out the pellets. I'm pretty sure that any of the oil from the last cleaning was pretty much gone by the time the pellets were loaded.
I still think I just got a bad batch.
"wap41" said:
If this was for me.... I'd shot six caps to start and three cylinders full of loads that had been loaded from my powder flask before trying out the pellets. I'm pretty sure that any of the oil from the last cleaning was pretty much gone by the time the pellets were loaded.
I still think I just got a bad batch.
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