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if soft lead was more common, I’d shoot steel More often. I do with round ball rifles where i can use harder wheel weight lead

Was cleaning my range and recovered about 200 .36 cal balls from my ASM. The fairly undamaged ones have very little rifling marks. Thought that was odd, so i chambered a ball, knocked it out and set in on the muzzle crown. Didn`t fall down the barrel, but almost. I can see the rifling grooves...

Fired 50+ shots from my 51 navy yesterday, did a white cloth cleaning. Residue everywhere. Will stick to the full strip and cleaning after each session.

mine appears to have sailors, they could be light pitting though, i can`t tell

Are there supposed to be sailors on the decks of the ships on the cylinder of an original 1860 Colt army? can`t seem to find a clear picture of the cylinder, and heard that there was Sailors depicted.

the too long screws may be the rear trigger guard screws

Prefer alone, unless my son is with me. Anyone else it becomes a social event and not a lot of shooting gets done, and its generally my ammo- future son in law will be needing to bring his own soon

while i don`t have a NMA, my ROA takes .457, my 1860 army takes .457, and my Dragoon 2 Gen takes .454. the .454 slide very easily into the cylinder of the 1860 army, i`m assuming it was honed during the re-furb it was given before I got it. don`t shoot the dragoon much, it`s very heavy for worn...

would have to be the .58 1863 Remington. its got a very worn bore but shoots roundball and minnie effectively out past 100 yds. the worn bore allows it to shoot shot ok at ranges under 30 yds. there is not a huge amount of small game up here in the north- traps, snares would be effective there...

Baby-bell wax has a high melting point untill mixed with the shortening. it does not seem to go rancid. it stays "sticky" used as a minnie ball lube, and won`t crack off in storage. it can also be applied cold with a finger in the field. i use plastic clamshell containers that socks and...

Punch mine from old military boot insoles- the winter boots. Then slice them and get 4 wads per. My lube is 50-50 baby bell cheese wax and crisco. Works great on wads as well as on Minnie balls. I`d probably buy them if there was a supplier handy to my location though. My wife works in the...

tried the stuff out of the red plastic caps mixed with 4F. Worked very well. Wouldn’t do it on a regular basis, too nit picky but i know it works if i have to do it. Putting 4 F in the red caps worked just as good.

my ASM 51 Navy has a hard time penetrating 3/4 plywood at 75 yard but i`d not want to be hit by it. will embed deep in the wood though. have not tried it on an oil drum though.

Got a new Lee .457 rb mold from shooter`s den in Sudbury. Young fella has no football tonight so going to run a couple hundred ball for the 1860 Army and the ruger old army.

i did notice the hammer being knocked back to half cock several times, maybe 50% of the time that day. it was new about 100 shots ago, not sure if i have another nipple that will fit.

Got one photo to load, you can see the spark flying back to my face. When i get the other of the spark exploding loaded up, i`ll post that too.

Still trying to upload

Just some screen shots of me shooting an 1863 Remington. Took a video just to get the fireball, but an errant spark came back and hit my glasses in ten top left corner of the right lens. Exploded on contact, left a small divot in the lens and a lot of white residue over the lens.. don`t want to...

On my drive across Canada, i found this little place in Sudbury, ON. Bought a .36 RB mold, BP, caps and a pile of other stuff. Just phone ordered a .457 rb mold from Dennis, the owner. anyway, for those in the great white north, this guy has more black powder stuff jammed into a tiny store than...

Been living out east for the last 11 years. Started shooting BP in Ontario about 2014. Between then and when i moved out of St john`s in July this year, i might have used 2 lbs of powder, maybe two and a half. got to Alberta in mid July. Bought 10 acres, and have added 2 cap and ball revolvers...