Recreating Historical Ammo

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Huh!

You'd a thought that these would already be readily available today, but apparently if they were done in the past it was an obscure, limited run.

I wonder how they shoot and velocity differences with other bullets and round ball?

:grin:

LD
 
Pro'bly depends a lot upon what kind of powder you put under them.
You know with black powder revolvers it's always a trade off... more lead means less powder.
But for military ammo they figgered out that a pointy front end was needed to get through the layers of clothing. So they needed some really high powered powder.

In my .40 bore 1858 Remington I've found that .41 mag molds give a lot of penetration (even though the powder space is substantially reduced) if the bullet is not blunt nosed. That's burning Jacks Battle powder which is a whole lot like FFFg.
 
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