Rogers&Spencer spits lead?

[dlon21]

I shot my original just today for the first time ever. I loaded the gun with about 30gr of 2f real black powder, and a .457 round ball. Then I put some fine cornmeal to fill up the empty space in there.

The gun worked really well, no problems with caps what so ever and it seemed very accurate too. A couple of times pieces of lead shaved off at the top of the breech. The balls I guess can enter the barrel in a variety of ways, rolling, spinning or whatever. Could if be that the .457s are too big, and the cure could be .454 or .451s for this gun? Haven't measured how big the the chambers are, or the breech, but I've slugged the barrel today so I've got something to measure. Your thoughts on this, guys?

The chambers align nicely with the bore. This gun is like many other R&S, in almost new mech. condition.


// Daniel

 

[Das Jaeger]

Breech

Do you mean Forcing Cone I assume ?
As long as the cylinder isn't sloppy to the bore , the balls go into the Forcing Cone the same way each time . There is no diference in the size of the Balls being from .451 to .457 once in cylinder, they all come out of cylinder the same way , the size of the cylinder . There shape is a little different is all , slender directionionaly in length , but they all will measure the same diameter in width .
A little spray of lead is common in revolvers . If it's a big spray , then the timing is off , cylinder isn't as true as you think to forcing cone.
If its an issue of splattering lead for ya , you can modify the forcing cone to be less sharp without any real loss of accuracy , CASS shooters do this all the time . Or fix the timing . Run a rod ( dowel ) down the bore with cylinder in battery and truelly make sure the bore actually does line up perfectly with the cylinder before you make the assumption its spot on timed and perfect .
Just my opinion of course , fact as I see it

Glad your shootin it, cool , Jaeger

 

[Hellgate]

It is possible you are swaging the balls and the rings of lead are being spit out the side. Some chamber mouths are beveled and there is no shaved ring of lead when the ball is seated. Other times the lead rings are still partially attached to the ball and could hang up in the cylinder gap when fired and therefore get spit out. Do the dowel chamber/bore alignment check as lead spitting is more likely due to a misaligned chamber.