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.
>>65077601Literally right now they are running one of these promos. You can order real BP right now and just pay normal shipping.
>>65072686>no beltI see a nigger powder revolver was the only thing you could get, wigger
>>65079051Why wear a belt when I'm fat and the pants fit tight on my ass? Do you put snow tires on in July?
>>65072686I'm going completely off of 15 year old memory here... Is Uberti still considered good for black powder repo revolvers on a budget?I thought I remembered something about the cylinder augers on certain models not being long enough, and soft steel.
>>65075361thats the bolt screw. maybe take the bolt out and take a round file and slightly open the hole a bit so its not so tight and add a little grease so it slides over the screw instead of grabbing and twisting it every time it moves when you pull the hamer back
>>65076556caps only drop once a year the good news is usually they drop in late spring early summer so should be in most retailers soon grab as many as you need when they come up cause when they run out theyll be gone again until next year
>>65078493what projectiles are you using? your loads are proabbly too weak. put 70 grains in then report back
>>65079263its not like you even have a choice. your only choice for black powder repro revolvers is italian. eitehr pietta or uberti. the quality is the same on both. uberti used to do a better job with some details that pietta didnt bother with like laquer on the hand grips or fire blue on the screws but the are the same imo. either one is ok for waht they are
>>65079251>fatEven worse
>>65080197I'm acutely aware and actively working to fix it. I'm already down 10 lbs from when I started the gym a month ago, but 10lbs off a fatass means little
>>65079828I was trying to be a little gentle, so the first load was 60 grains of Swiss with a 405 grain cast bullet. The military had 55gr carbine loads, so I wouldn't think 60 is be too low. I even brought it down to 50 to reduce warping on the brass and had the same result. The smokeless doesn't even have the power to damage the brass at all, but still flies perfectly.
>>65079806is this a translation thing? what part is the bolt? none of this looks like a bolt.
>"Muzzleloader season">Inlines allowed, 209 primers allowed, scopes allowed, substitutes and pellets allowed, sabots allowed, etc.>Can't hunt with a BP cartridge rifle made in the 1870s
>>65081981It's been an ass-chapping experience getting deeper into guns over the past decade and learning that most old timers are total fudds who are terrified of black powder, don't give a fuck about antiques, and treat anything they aren't familiar with like potentially unethical foolishness. Black powder cartridges in particular seem to fluster them up like you just mixed up two things that shouldn't go together.
>>65082031It's even more ridiculous given that most BP hunting loads are generally MORE energetic than BP cartridges. 90gr of FFG will push a ~400gr .54 conical at ~1500fps out of a 28" barrel but 11x60R out of a 30" barrel is a ~380gr bullet going ~1425 and the mighty buffalo-slaying .45-70 makes like 1350 with a 405gr bullet and drops more than 20" at 200 yards.By the by, an inline .50 pushing a 250gr bullet makes ~2150fps and drops 8" at 200 yards.
>>6508133812 is the bolt you zoomtard learn the terminology of the parts theres only like 15 on that simple design
>>65081981>can’t use a black powder sharps carbine during muzzleloader season>FirstLite™ retard with carbon fiber stocked inline and 30x scope is g2g
Also I kinda want the Pedersoli Baker Cavalry Shotgun (20ga 11” barrel) to grouse/squirrel hunt with. I wonder if you could get it cut for chokes.
could I put a 1858 Carbine trigger guard on a regular 1858 (winter trigger guard)
>>65072686My great-grandfather's Colt Navy, mfg. 1873. He owned a store and it was kept under the counter. Still shoots great.
>>65081981Just use it anyway and don't tell anybody? Thats what i did with my .40 Tennessee rifle, since the minimum in my state is .45. Never had a problem
>>65084855I don't see why not, just cut down the length a bit, anneal, bend to fit the grip contour, and drill and tap a screw or something into the front strap to hold it down.
>>65077428Mine is the Rodger's Rangers Musket, mines I think is 36-38 inches or so.They use high pressure hydraulic pipe. That and alloys have changed significantly in the past 250 years. So significantly lighter. But its got a decent kick being 12 guage bore. Accuracy 3 shots with 100grFF got me hitting paper at 75 yards. Between 6 and 7 O'clock low. First kissed the bottom of the target, 2nd was bottom of 5 Ring, 3rd 8 ring 7 o'clock high.
>>65077391I built this one from parts, my 54cal. 36 inch barrel I bought from a civil war reenactor. Then found a lock and hardware from a trade show in Wisconsin. The stock came from a maple branch taken down during a wind storm. I cut it down the stock with a bandsaw. I was shooting for a Jager style but the stock grew a crack and I had to shave a considerable ammout off. I then pattered it off of a French trade musket. Works great packed with bird shot too. Still haven't gotten a deer yet but accuracy is decent at 100 yards. It does have some drop but aiming just above the bullseye put you in the 9-10 ring.
I also have a Ruger Old Army and a TC "black mountain magnum" that I've never shot due to not being able to find any documentation of how to disassemble it. Does anyone know anything about them? Any comparable guns that have the same take down process?
>>65085905Nice
Engraved reproductions, cool or lame?
Do any of you work with modern muzzleloaders like the CVA optima? I do and it feels like I need to bring needlenose pliers and lube up the hole between every shot to take primers out consistently
Is it better to get a Pedersoli Sharps over a Pietta Smith? It costs almost twice as much, but I've heard Pietta Smiths have had barrel problems in the past. Reviews have looked much better when it comes to accuracy, though.
how dangerous is to keep black powder around your house if you aren't a retard? I really want a 1851 because they are the easiest type of gun to get in my Euro country but I'm worried about blowing up my house.
>>65094571It is incredibly stable if you keep it away from heat and sparks.
I've heard the Uberti's shrunken the size of the chambers on their Walkers and Dragoons so that they can only take 35-45 grains of powder. Does anyone here have any experience with that? It seems like a waste to get a Walker or Dragoon if it's just going to have the performance of an Army model.
>>65095226probably dont want to get sued when it inevitably chainfires
>>65072686what's the deal with black powder firearms? what if I 3D printed a black powder semiautomatic using AI to design is that possible? why can't technology bypass all laws almost? why or why not? I feel like I should be able to figure out how to make a black powder AK fully legally and tell everyone to fuck themselves with their silly laws
>>65095269Black powder in modern autoloaders of any kind will jam up the action after a dozen shots and will require immediate cleaning.
>>65095260Did they lower their quality of steel? Going from 60 grains to 40 is a massive decrease.
>>65095226In my experience I haven't seen that and this is the first I'm hearing about it. Officially in the manual it says 30 grains is a maximum charge for a 44 but it doesn't differentiate models, just calibers and projectile type
>>65095447I thought Walkers were proposed up to 60 grains for a combat load, but 50 was more realistic. Of course you can always load less powder, but for such a big pistol it'd be nice to load more powder.
Aw shit, it's just that Uberti Walkers are more Dragoon's reverse engineered into Walkers a proper Walker.
Don't Walkers tend to blow up in your hand, like the story Little Bill told in Unforgiven?
>>65096486If they were loaded with backwards conicals and even more powder than they should have, yeah. There were some problems with the earlier Walkers in the original shipment to the military. During trials a bit over 100 of them had burst cylinders. I think Colt needed to import British and Swedish steel in order to get good enough metal for the cylinders to be strong enough for a full load. I think the Dragoon stopped having those issues since it moved down to a size that limited the chambers to 50 grains as opposed to 60 grains of powder.
>>65095226>>65095226you heard some fake and gay lies. my uberti walker holds twice as much as my uberty 1860 army the cylinders are fucking huge the chambers are fully drilled into the cylinders theres like a full inch extra of room for powder
>>65094571its completely safe and inert unless you put fire or sparks on it
>>65094571It's fine unless it explodes.
>>65096837Doesn't it only burn if it's not in a sealed container? I mean I've never really had the urge to test it, but to my understanding it's not particularly explosive if the resulting gas isn't under pressure.
>>65096814I'll trust you anon. If I get shafted I'll probably just convert it
firs time shooting my uberti colt today. Caps seemed to have about 50-50% chance of going off and one that went off didnt set the powder off. RWS caps do fit on the nipples and stay on them. What can I try? Should I use filler material if load is only 15 grains?
>>65098137>Should I use filler material if load is only 15 grains?yesblack powder is not like modern gunpowder an airgap between powder and bullet is a really bad thing.could be the caps, could be the nipples, iv heard of people doubling up the hammerspring if its doing light strike.
anybody built a gun from a board lol? found this vaguely gun shaped object at an antique store and i had to buy it. 64" by 2 3/8" wide, 6 inch tall butt. ive never done any inletting before either, save for a couple buttplates if that counts
>>65098137If it's new that may be because the packing oil blocked the nipple hole. Happened to me too, apparently its a pretty common issue and you're supposed to set off a whole cylinder of just caps to clear them off before loading for the first time. As for the failures to ignite? Dunno, 50/50 it's either a weak spring out of the box or just bad primers. Try shooting a different brand to see if you still encounter that problem
>>65098182Friend thought it may have been the light hammerspring(it feels veeery light now) and oil in fire holes. I finished off by shooting 3 shots in a row from the same chamber and the last ones worked okay. I do have 2 hammer springs so Ill try doubling them thanks>>65098577Not a new gun but fired only 100 or so. Still has unscratched bluing everywhere. But it might be sprayed gunoil in nipple holes yeah. Different primers will have to wait because I bought what were possibly only caps left in gunshops in the country lmao. Thanks anons
>>65099211The doubing up of hammersprings is a thing but at the same time if the better aftermarket hammersprings were availble its better to replace with one of those. Doubling is a last ditch no other options but it should work deal. It really seemed like only people with no other choice resorted to it. Mine worked fine with the stock single part. Cant hurt to try it if youve got a spare on hand though.
>>65098137the caps arent fully seated or fitting right so when your hammer drops it just smushes the cap and pushes it further on the nipple. then when you strike the same nipple again it will go off
>>65099489I did press them as far as they would go but its possible I didnt do it right. I used a hard plastic knife sheath.
>>65099512did the caps go off the second time you tried? also when the cap fails to set off the charge thats usually because a clog in the cap flash hole usually from oil. this is why when getting ready to fire at the range most people run a cylinder of caps through before loading anything to blow out the holes and clear them. alternatively you can use a piece of wire to poke through them. before you load take the cylinder out and look through it against a bright spot in the sky and make sure you can see daylight easily through each nipple hole. if you cant then push the wire through it until you can. i use the wire from common food twist ties. small paper clips unfolded also work
>>65100892Yes they went off on second attempt. And I cleared the holes with dental floss. 3 of them were barely open but now they all look similar. I also swapped the hammer spring and this one feels stronger. Im feeling hopeful.
>>65100979if they went off on second time that means they werent fully seated. you might have pusehd them as far as you could but maybe the shape doesnt fit your nipples so the first time the hammer falls on the cap it pushes it further splitting the sides of the metal a bit and compresing the top onto the head of the nipple. then the second hit of the hammer sets the cap off.try differnt cap brands or sizes or get different nipples. if you look at your nipples you will notice they are cone shaped. caps also have a slight angle to them. different nipples have different angles of the cone. my bet is your caps are too small, try the larger size caps or a different brand. remington #10s are a bit smaller than CCI #10 een though they are the same #10 szie th 2 brands differ in size slightly. what cap brand and size are you using?
>>65100979clearing the holes is not a thing you do just once. you do it every time before shooting. you should be cleaining the cylinder and removing the nipples to clean after shooting and putting into long term storage or youll get rust
>>65101028Theyre RWS 1075. Size and shape does seem to match nipples. Im hoping bit more violence with the caps, cleaned nipples(previous owner said he probably left some oil in nipple holes too) and stronger spring will help. I of course took the gun fully apart after shooting, cleaned it in warm soap water and oiled and greased it as I put it back together.
>>65101178yeah what you are desribing is normal in the cycle of use and maintenance. after cleaning the gun you will have oil everywhere and inevtitably some gets in the nipple holes. thats why when you go to the range before loading you run a cylinder or 2 of plain caps and dry fire them out to clear the flash holes before loading any powder or use a wire to do the same. i like to use a piece of old guitar string thats about the right size and one of those little dental flossing bottlebrush pick looking things for cleaning between teeth or under braces. the guitar string is good to punch through thick carbon fouling if it clogs the hole and the brush is good for getting the oil and shit out of the way if its a clean gun. what country are you in? see if you can find remington and CCI caps as well and try them all and see if one fits your nipples best.. personally i find the remingtons to be too tight on my piettas and uberties and the CCIs are just perfect. i also have one pistol with aftermarket cylinders from slixshot that fit the larger size 11 caps great. .
>>65101811>slixshotYou mean cylinder nipples or entire cylinders, because I didn't know they sold entire cylinders for piettas and ubertis
>>65107488i meant nipples yes. https://www.slixprings.com/proddetail.php?prod=SliXshot-Black-Powder-Nipplesalso highly recommend their nipple wrench. its actually hardened steel and wont deform and break like all the pietta and whatever cva/traditions ones you find
>>65107488>>65107690
>>65107488the stainless is also a nice feature too. they resist corrosion. but the main reason i like them is the shape which really fits the CCI #11 caps perfectly. so i can use the same caps as my rifle and it simplifies logistics when bringing them to the range.
>>65098475Im the poster from >>65088748What were you thinking as far as style? There are book called recreating the Kentucky long rifle. It's like $20-30. You will need to do a shit ton of shaping and sanding.
>>65108520>>65098475NTA, but I've mastered making my own black powder and I'm fairly pleased with bullet casting and reloading progress. I really want to make a flintlock next, but I dislike the look/feel of cheap brands enough that they don't even seem worth my time and the quality ones are shockingly expensive for a box of unfinished parts.I guess I'll Frankenstein together a rifle from parts off of eBay and lean into quality with the barrel. I'm prepared for trial and error. Any suggestions?
>>65075361My quest to push a .45 muzzle loader to 4000 joules, or 3000 ft/lbs if you are retarded, has been completed
>>65072686Good day gents, was trying out half and halfing my powder charge with corn meal today. Worked well until the 6th shot failed to fire (my dumbass grabbed the wrong flask first) and I got to experience pulling a bullet with the tools I had to hand. I believe I may have found the origin of the term "screwball"
Paper cartridges or extra cylinders?
>>65076556i find my CCI #10s at cabelas.>>65088793looks like a copy of the remington 1858. pietta should have an online manual for that.>>65095226i can cram 55 grains of FFFG into my uberti walker.>>65098137i keep a spare powder flask full of farina (cream of wheat) to top off the chambers when i want to use partial loads. it makes pretty decent wadding.
>>65108520I was thinking of making a big smoothbore, 10 or 12 gauge, I've ordered tom grinslade's fowler book for ideas but I'll order that one too
Damnit, all the Starrs are sold out
>>65095226I have confirmed my Uberti can handle 60gr pyrodex P, I don't know where you heard that from>pyrodexYes, yes I know but it's the only thing the store had on the shelf last time I went powder shopping
How much powder did the Beaumont–Adams double action revolver take in a chamber? About as much as a Colt Navy?
>>65088748Very cool. Nice work, anon.
>>65119125i've gotten close but not to 60 grains. the walker originally had a conical bullet that allowed for a larger powder charge. getting round ball in there and a wad makes things too tight. at least when i've tried but i could just be retarded.
>>65072686Black powder n00b here:Can anyone here enlighten me as to the relationship between bore size and Minié ball diameter?I recently impulse bought a huge old Swedish horse pistol (pic rel) and I need to get a bullet mold for it, but it's a non-standard size.The bore is rifled with a diameter between the lands of 14.7mm (.57") and a diameter between the groves of 15.6mm (.61").In the documentation I've been able to find, these are listed as 14.85mm (.58") caliber pistols.I've been able to find info about the original bullet weight, 23.1g (356gr), but info about the bullet diameter is all over the place and I can't find any reliable numbers.How snug are Minié balls supposed to fit down the barrel? Are the usually a bit oversized, or should they be more or less the same diameter as the bore is between the lands?Should they be slightly undersized to aid in loading down fouled bores?These pistols originally fired solid-base bullets and had a pointed column at the base of the chamber into which the bullet was rammed home hard as fuck to flare the base of the bullet out against the rifling.This system didn't work very well, so a previous owner removed the column in the chamber from my pistol. I'm guess plain round balls and Minié ball are the way to go now.I also couldn't find any data about the original powder load, but from what I've been able to read about similar rifled .58ish caliber pistols, a 35-45gr load seems pretty standard.Am I in the right ballpark here, or will it blow up my antique pistol and send me to the hospital?
>>65126961>the bullet was rammed home hard as fuck to flare the base of the bullet out against the rifling.NOJUST NOWhat expands the base is the gunpowder exploding.its supposed to be undersized or close. you shouldnt be forcing oversized lead down the barrel.
>>65126961>How snug are Minié balls supposed to fit down the barrel?They should be undersized. The powder going off is what expands the bullet to engage the rifling. >a pointed column at the base of the chamber into which the bullet was rammed home hard as fuck to flare the base of the bullet out against the rifling.That's a pillar breech system, a predecessor to the Minie expanding bullet. You should be fine running either patched round ball or minie with the pillar removed. You don't have to ram it down as hard with the minie unlike the original style bullet since the powder charge is doing the expanding.
>>65128127>These pistols originally fired solid-base bulletsyou miss that?>>65126961>I'm guess plain round balls and Minié ball are the way to go now.yes. just shoot round ball. seriously, what are you going to do with that that requires the effort of a Minié?find some balls that just shear off the tiniest sliver of lead ramming them down (sounds like .57-ish") and rock it. probably going to have to play around a bit on sizing to find the right one to the thou.buy an assortment and have a day. then WRITE IT ALL DOWN and keep your notes with the pistol so nobody else has to figure it out again. same with caps and loads and wads.start small and work your way up slowly. when it does what you want it to, leave it at that. remember, this is a tee-hee cloudmaker you use to shoot steel gongs, not a hand cannon death machine. you don't have to go all the way finding it's limits. have it do what you want it to and no more.
>>65128186>what are you going to do with that that requires the effort of a Minié?I'm just going to be shooting paper targets, but I'm part of a shooting club that competes with black powder pistols, so it would be neat if I could actually get somewhat decent accuracy out of this thing. That being said, I have no idea how accurate these things are. It may only achieve minute of barn door accuracy, even under the best circumstances it.Either way I figured Minié balls would probably be the best option for maximizing accuracy, and I've got the resources to just make some custom molds for such projectiles.Making molds for round balls would be a bit more of a pain in the ass for me, I'd first have to make custom tools just to make the molds.
More Starr revolvers are in stock, are they worth it? It looks like Slixshot makes nipples for them, so that should improve some reliability.
