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Yes, you should lube them. Crisco, beeswax, bore butter, et. al.

I've had good service from Powder Inc. I shoot BPCR also and burn about 20 pounds of BP a year.

CCI caps are fine, I like RWS caps better, but the caps are not the source of wild shooting. You can check the barrel diameter by screwing a ball pulling screw into a minie ball, flaring the skirt, and tapping it into the muzzle. When you pull it out, check the land and groove diameters with a...

Depends on the filler metal and procedure, TIG welding has a small heat effected zone, but any hardness difference wouldn't make a functional difference.

Wow, I thought I shot my C&B revolvers a lot. Might be time for a new gun. But, TIG welding would work to fill the canyon. He might want to check his barrel cylinder gap.

I have a Pedersoli 3 band Enfield. I use the Lyman "new style" minies sized to .578 lubed with SPG. Shoots great, based on the ricochet sound, you might need a softer alloy or bigger bullet. I use 60 grains of Swiss 1.5 f.

Checked some balls in my range box, 10 balls were measured of each type. Speer 0.490 Average 176.7 gr Standard deviation (sd) 0.48 gr Extreme spread (es) 1.2 gr Hornady 0.440gr Ave 128.0 Sd 0.33 Es 1.1 Cast Lee 2 cavity mold 0.380 Ave 82.6 Sd 0.39 Es 1.1 Hornady 0.457 Ave 143.4 Sd 0.23 Es...

Quit bottom pour pots because I could never stop that kind of thing. Waage is my friend now.

And per Motorcraft it prevents foaming!

Like any liquid with surface tension, molten lead wants to be round. If the mold is up to temperature, just about any technique works. For minies, a ladle is necessary, for me at least.

Type F transmission fluid.

Ron Peterson's sold black powder when I used to live in NM, might give them a call.

The .451 balls are used in "44" caliber cap and ball revolvers and the . 440 balls are used in 45 caliber rifles. The revolvers don't use a patch, in fact the balls need to be a little larger than the chamber throats. The rifle balls are smaller to accommodate for the patch.