Revolver loading

[nkbj]

Short bullets or long bullets, they need to be the right diameter and length, not over stressing the loading lever or for that matter on some repro's the soft steel holding the barrel wedge.
Remington levers can be sprung and Colt barrel wedge slots can be distorted by a right arm.

Don't try to force it. If I put in too much powder and OOPS!, have bullet sticking out in front of the cylinder then pulling the cylinder and trimming off the excess lead, and then shooting it out is the way to go.
There's no point in tearing up your piece!

 

[Twisted_1in66]

That's what I thought too and I said so to him. Actually it was .45 cal.Then he pulled up his bag that said buckshot on it and .45 was ink-stamped into it. And...it was full of them. Said they were cheaper than buying round balls because there was a lot of inconsistency in the buckshot.

His comment was that it worked fine because the excess lead from the .45 came off as a ring of lead when he seated the ball. And then he demonstrated it. I later found the same thing in a store in a lot of sizes including .45, but since I didn't have a .44 cal. pistol, I didn't bother with it. Again...this is back in 1970. No idea if it's still available like that.

Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:
Dan