On 2/23/2020 7:44 AM, Roy wrote:
# On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:00:15 +0000 (UTC), Ralph Mowery
# <
rmowery28146@earthlink.net> wrote:
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# #In article <q8r8m3$jh$
1@news.albasani.net>,
wmgp44@gmail.com says...
# ##
# ## On Tuesday, April 22, 1997 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, Ewaldclark wrote:
# ## # Anybody know the optimum Pyrodex load for the Walker Colt? Literature that
# ## # came with it just had info for regular .44 load. The Walker's cylinder is
# ## # huge & a regular load of 25 grains will leave a lot of space between the # ## # ball and the powder.
# ## # If the recommended load is the same, what do you fill up the excess space
# ## # with?
# ##
# ## The best thing to use is corn meal . Make sure you use the same volume in each
# ## cylinder to maintain equal powder compression
# ##
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# ##
# #
# #Been a long time for me and the black powder guns.
# #
# #I am thinking that Pyrodex is suppose to be loaded by volume and not
# #weighed grains. That is weigh out 25 grains of black powder, then put
# #it in something you can see or measure the level, dump it out and put in
# #the Pyrodex for the same volume . Are you doing that ?
#
#
# Yes, Pyrodex is loaded by volume. Worthless stuff if you shoot flintlocks. I
# have shot nothing but real black powder for almost four decades. I used to use
# filler loads in my Ruger Old Army. It wasn't worth the hassle. Fill the
# cylinder with 3f Goex, about 32 grains IIRC I have a spout cut to the right
# charge on a flask, seat the ball, swab with white wheel bearing grease and have
# at it with CCI #11 caps (I changed out nipples to Uncle Mike's years ago). My
# ROA loves the load and is the hit of the public range when I bring it out.
# Shoot 50-55gr 3f in that Walker. That's what the real Colts were designed for.
#
I tend to agree. Pyrodex is OK in my Army 44 but iffy with cap
discharge in my percussion Hawken rifle. I would fill the cylinder the
way you suggest with grease over the bullet.
Have not shot BP for a while but when I first started I found it was practically impossible to overload. I hear the only trouble you might
get in is that if bullet is not seated on the powder and there is a lot
of space you may have an over pressure problem.
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