Conical bullets for .36 Navy Cap & Ball?

[Shelby Skinner]

Does anyone make a conical bullet for a .36 Navy Cap and ball revolver?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Rebel]

I'm pretty sure Buffalo Bullets makes a .36 revolver conical. Check here.[url] http://www.cabelas.com/cabela...tType=index&indexId=cat200005&hasJS=true[/url]

 

[Zonie]

If you go to gun shows, you might keep your eyes peeled for one of those .36 cal brass bullet molds.
These molds usually will cast both a roundball, and a heeled bullet. The heel is a slightly undersize area to position the bullet in the chamber prior to ramming it down.

I picked one up for $5 and cast up some pure lead bullets for my .36's.

These bullets seemed to be fairly accurate in my guns but they do take a lot more force on the loading lever than a roundball does.

zonie

 

[rebel727]

Does anyone make a conical bullet for a .36 Navy Cap and ball revolver?

Thanks in advance...

[url] http://www.leeprecision.com/cgi/catalog/browse.cgi?1187313105.4326=/html/catalog/blackpow.html[/url]

Scroll down close to the bottom of the page, they're just above shotgun molds. you can find Lee molds cheaper but those other places eat you up on shipping. This is THE place for Lee molds.

 

[Rebel]

So how much is the shipping from this sight?

 

[rebel727]

Been a while since I ordered anything from them but it was around five dollars. I've found the same molds elsewhere for a few dollars less but by the time they added shipping it was almost 35 dollars for a double cavity round ball mold.

 

[Rebel]

Thanks. I can buy the Lee single cavity locally for $20 so that is what i normally do unless i am ordering some other stuff from Track and happen to need a mould at the time. Then i order from them.

 

[rebel727]

I just ran a .454 single cavity round ball mold through the shopping cart. Mold price is 19.98, shipping is 4.00, total is 23.98.

 

[Rebel]

Yea, guess i am better of buying locally. It also helps the little Local dealer.

 

[rebel727]

It's good that you can do that. I can't. It's a lot better than buying through Cabela's or Midway tho. :thumbsup:

 

[Don]

I had no luck with the Buffalo Bullets,they were hard to load straight and they were very inaccurate. I got some Lee conicals through an internet store called Cheap Shot. I think he works through e-bay and you have to use pay pal now but the bullets load straighter and are pretty accurate. Still not as accurate as balls but OK. The best conicals I ever used in my revolvers were made by Big Iron barrel works but I believe he is out of bussiness now and in the process P.O'ed a lot of folks. They were kind of like a wad cutter bullet. Under cylander size until the tip that had a lead ridge that shaved off during loading. These were the only bullets that rivaled balls for accuracy.

Don

 

[rickystl]

I don't have a .36, but I do have two .44's. I have never found a conical that works. They are harder to load, and accuracy suffers - alot!!
The "original" type conicals can't be loaded without deforming the bullet. At least I can't. Often, there is not enough room to include a greased pellet if using a conical, depending on the load. I've often wondered why they even used them during the Civil War. Then, I read that the troops liked them because they hit harder. That is probably true, especially at short ranges. But it is somewhat ironic since these pistols were originally sighted in for 75 yards. But the soldiers probably didn't use them at that long of range?

 

[rebel727]

You don't need a grease pellet or wad with conicals. Put lube in the grooves, that's what they're for

 

[Blizzard of '93]

hope I'm not hijacking the thread here since it concerned .36 cal slugs. Lee makes 2 different size '.44' molds. one for .451 chambers(Rem '58) and another for the ROA and Colt Walker that has .454 chambers. I have both and the Rem slugs shoot good as do the ROA slugs. mine likes a less than max charge for tight groups. a felt wad overpowder helps groups tighten up. I use a hot load for hunting.