Do you shoot a .36 or .44 cap and ball revolver the most?
Back when I first got started, I shot my .44 1858 Remingtons almost exclusivelly but since I bought my little .36 caliber Piettia Police, I got re-intrested in the smaller caliber and frankilly nearlly 75% of my shooting has gone to the smaller caliber with time well spent refining my loads for it.
Fortunatelly I spent enough time behind the big Remingtons, that I developed personal charges that work in my revolvers. I worked up plinking squib loads and found that fairly heavy 35 gr charges were the most accurate from the pair of Remingtons I own.
I ran .36 cal charges from 18gr to 25 gr and discovered that subtile differences such as 2 gr of powder really made a difference on group sizes. I ended up with using a 22 gr (measured for each chamber) powder charge being both the most accurate and giving the caliber a suprisinglly flat trajectory for plinking. The charge is so small that a pound of powder really goes a long way compared to the big .44s! The factory suggested load charts are really weird and are given in either grains or grams. Hard to decipher! Not being in a hurry to reload gave mer a chance to develop and record what worked best for me.
Many thanks goes out to responders on the forums for their answers to my beginner shooters questions! I learned a LOT!
ZVP
Back when I first got started, I shot my .44 1858 Remingtons almost exclusivelly but since I bought my little .36 caliber Piettia Police, I got re-intrested in the smaller caliber and frankilly nearlly 75% of my shooting has gone to the smaller caliber with time well spent refining my loads for it.
Fortunatelly I spent enough time behind the big Remingtons, that I developed personal charges that work in my revolvers. I worked up plinking squib loads and found that fairly heavy 35 gr charges were the most accurate from the pair of Remingtons I own.
I ran .36 cal charges from 18gr to 25 gr and discovered that subtile differences such as 2 gr of powder really made a difference on group sizes. I ended up with using a 22 gr (measured for each chamber) powder charge being both the most accurate and giving the caliber a suprisinglly flat trajectory for plinking. The charge is so small that a pound of powder really goes a long way compared to the big .44s! The factory suggested load charts are really weird and are given in either grains or grams. Hard to decipher! Not being in a hurry to reload gave mer a chance to develop and record what worked best for me.
Many thanks goes out to responders on the forums for their answers to my beginner shooters questions! I learned a LOT!
ZVP
