Maximum loads for 1858 Remington

[Bad Karma]

I just received a 220g .456 conical mold from lee. immediately cast 64 conicals. Its a LOT more lead usage than .454 RB! I have no idea how this is going to work?? On the Lee site it was sold as a conical specifically for .44 cap and ball revolvers. I don't have any real bullet lube yet but will use bore butter untill my Lee bullet lube arives from TOTW.. plan to load with my standard 25g spout of T7 on the bench with my bench loader. How do you get them to go in the cylinder straight???

The base of that bullet should be rebated and will drop into the chamber mouth a couple tenths of an inch. It should be pretty darn straight at that point. Some people load off the gun, others use the ram on the gun with good results. This bullet can be very accurate.

 

[Bad Karma]

Where did you aquire flat point bullets? Thanks

Here’s a mold available from Accurate Molds. It’s a dandy and can be ordered for a specific revolver…

 

[springfield art]

Hopefully one of the pistolero members will jump in. Just from what I read, it scares me. Just from my experience with Remington’s, with 30 grains your pushing the limit especially with a bullet. For that type of powder charge you should get a Dragoon or Walker. Also, I hope you talking about a steel frame 1858. Good luck and be safe.

I've always read that whatever volume of Black Powder fits in the cylinder, with the ball seated so as not to interfere with cylinder rotation, is OK. Seems simple.

 

[nick_1]

I shot my new lee .456 220g conicals today. not even a chance of seating them. I champherd my cylinders which helped but still the only way to get them started straight is with a leather mallet. they print about the same as RB out of ech respective cylinder, the one I keep on the gun shoots pretty tight and leads easier. Spare cylinder loads harder and shoots looser than the beat up one. The conicals shoot much higher than RB and hit much harder. sends my steel flying like nobody's buisness. . Pros. hits hard, cons harder to shoot accuratly. hits a ft high. much harder to load. harder to shoot accuratly at speed. uses almost twice as much lead.