Good evening gents I hope you all had a wonderful Sunday. Are you a black powder enjoyer? If so, what's your favorite smoke puffer? If not, why?
>>65072686I like black powder, I'm a frog and it's not considered a firearm here so it's easy to buy and fun. However my neighbours got me arrested cause they were scared of the sound lmao. Anyway the cops were cool as fuck I just told me to go do it in the forest instead of my garden otherwise they'll have to fine me with "diurnal nuisance". Fucking neighbours
>>65072686How do I get a black powder webbing/belt/bandolier high speed leather setup that would go well with old fashioned lolita coords?
>>65072912I'd hate you if you were my neighbor.
bought a vastly overpriced pedersoli charleville but it sure is fun
i dont expect any actual help cause people here dont shoot but i gotta ask. anyone else have issues with screws loosening up. this screw specifically. went to the range shot 30 times by the end of it its halfway out. go home tighten it seems fine. notice after just playing around cocking it roughly 100 times its loose again.i dunno if this is a loctite situation or something else.im tightening it reasonably tight but not super tight cause i feel like if i go all out it will damage the screwhead.
>>65074410I hate you and you're not my neighbor.
>>65074410well I live in the countryside and we are like 1 mile apart so I felt like I could do whatever I wanted. It's not like I live in an apartment
>>65072686Is this the convicted felon general?
>>65075361No never had this problem but maybe put some blue loctite? I'm not sure how well it'll work with all the deposits tho. Maybe the screw is a bit out of specs too, they are extremely easy to find to maybe just buy another one. If it's still not working then the hole is out of specs and you can rebore it very easily by hand and use the next size screw.
What's the best substitute in .54 for a Hornady Great Plains? Hands-down the most accurate conical I've ever shot but they stopped making them almost a decade ago and my supply is basically tapped out. Seems like pretty much all of the .54 bullets that are available off the shelf are solid-base and moulds for .54 bullets are a pain in the ass to find.
Do you find percussion caps to purchase? Every store in my area is out. I emailed some asking if they could order me but they all say they cant get any.
>>65076556I've accepted that if you want to be into BP you're gonna have to pay for hazard fees and entirely shop online since very few brick and mortar shops carry BP supplies. For example here in DFW, fucking huge metro area with gun stores aplenty, there's only one store I've found that has caps and pyrodex on the shelves. I have yet to find any store that will sell real powder off the shelf
>>65076601Huh. In this corner of Europe I have never seen any substitutes. The shops that have powder have Swiss or Wano. But right now nobody not one has caps. Fuck me
>>65076607Well substitutes mostly exist to satisfy American shipping laws IIRC so they're fairly rare to see outside of the states since they're just worse than regular black powder. But most shops here will stock pyrodex since it's cheaper and the market here is way smaller than it is in Europe since the only people that want BP are either enthusiasts or people who can't own a smokeless gun legally. Also no, not until you buy me a drink first
>>65072686Does anyone have experience with these DIY musket kits like in picrel? I'm considering buying one. My other consideration is an in-line rifle.>>65075474How was I supposed to know that Albanian immigrant wasn't actually shoplifting?
Got out and shot my brown bess. Not bad for an india made musket. At 75 yard my shot was 1 inch below the bullseye with 100grains.
>>65072686I just received as a gift a slightly rusty, very dusty cap and ball revolver which I believe to be a Pietta 1851 Army repro. It is a .44 cal. It came with no accessories or manual and I have no clue what I’m doing, can anyone recommend a good source of information and supplies for how to properly clean, shoot, and maintain it?
>>65077407how does it handle? i hear the smoothbore barrels are so thin and light that theyre quite pointable even being 42-48 inches
>>65077391yeah, but the kit i built mine from was about 40 years old, and missing a few parts, and i absolutely butchered the lock inletting, but it shot and functioned fine before i dropped it and the stock broke through the lock mortise. modern stuff might have better qc than jukar spanish mystery shit from the 70s. if you like tinkering go for it IMO
>>65077423Can we get a pic of it? Disassemble it, remove all the nipples from the cylinder, rinse them off with hot/warm water, let them dry, buy some black powder solvent (anything should work fine but don't take my word on that) along with some brushes so you can clean it properly. Focus on the nipples, cylinder, and barrel. Also, the official Pietta manualhttp://www.pietta.us/pdf/Manuale_Avancarica_ENG.pdf>>65077438thx m8.
>>65076601Graf’s has “no hazard fee” promos a few times a year.
I was surprised at the loudness the first time I fired my slintlock pistol. I always imagined it would be quieter than a modern gun
>>65077680I always assumed they would be equally loud but now you have me wondering if there isn’t a measurable difference, and if so, whether black or smokeless gives a louder report.
>>65077686Ive never shot BP myself but I always remember it being loud enough to hear for at least a mile when Id go to an historical society that does musket drills and thats loose powder only. Its more of a soft boom rather than a sharp crack, easy to mistake it for heavy objects getting dropped at a job site.
TC White Mountain carbine .50 used do I cop?
>>65077391>Does anyone have experience with these DIY musket kits like in picrel?The kits vary a lot. Some, like Traditions, have 99% of the work already done for you. The castings are all mostly finished, the lock is assembled, the stock inletting is mostly already done. On the other extreme you have kits where you just get bare castings. In that case you have to tediously clean up every little piece with files, harden the frizzen, etc. Also the stock may only be roughly shaped with minimal inletting. Those kits are a lot more work, which might be awesome or it might be terrible, it just depends on what your goal is.>>65077423I can recommend two good references for Black Powder fuckery. Picrel is one of them, Black Powder Handbook aka Lyman Black Powder Handbook by Sam Fadala. This book is great, it doesn't have to be the 5th edition, earlier ones are good too. Mine is the 2nd edition. This contains info on loading, cleaning, shooting, and has load data for all sorts of different guns. The other is The Gun and its Development by W. W. Greener, which also has a lot of info on loading and shooting black powder, bullet types, powder formulations, load data, loads used for proof testing, etc. That book is out of print and is easily found online so you can read it free.
I received an original Springfield Trapdoor carbine from my grandfather. The story is that his own grandfather got it from an Indian when they were living in Oklahoma, whose own father/grandfather/whatever passed it down to him after taking it off a dead cavalryman in battle. Serial number and condition makes it possible, so that's what I'm sticking with. It was not well cared for by the godless red savages, so it has some pitting in the chamber that warps brass on anything but the lowest end of trapdoor loads. Still recoverable brass, but I wouldn't use them for a different rifle after that. Otherwise, it has very mild pitting in the middle of the barrel that doesn't seem to affect anything. After some experiments, I've sadly concluded that although I can consistently ping 3 inch targets at 100 yards with smokeless rounds, it handles black powder cartridges so poorly that I struggle to even hit a full-sized silhouette at just 50 yards. I tried it with Swiss BP, the same container I've been using to run comparisons with my homemade powder, so I know it's good. It seems any amount of the stuff produces an extreme drop in accuracy, to the point that even smokeless won't shoot right until after I thoroughly clean the fouling out and put put a few smokeless through it again. I'm blessed with what I have, but it's unexpected and disappointing to not get to run black powder through it. The crack of smokeless doesn't live up to the boom of BP for me anymore.
