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Not home now but will post pix when I can

BW is actually not too hard to nursemaid, but dont tell him I said so. Imis

Crewmen check the packing of a slide extension of a 16” gun on board USS New Jersey (BB-62) while at Bayonne, New Jersey, November 3, 1950

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They run without a hitch. I’d feel totally confident using them in a match this weekend.

777 comes in two versions. FFFg is for modern muzzle loaders only. Per Hodgdon's Basic Muzzleloader Manual it is NOT recommended for use in cartridges. FFg can be used in shotguns, cartridges and modern muzzle loaders. Both versions are not recommended for use in antique firearms not proofed for smokeless powder. 777 should only be used on modern firearms. https://hodgdonreloading.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023_MDATA.pdf From the above manual.

Re-Lining a 32-20 to 32 H&R

Some years ago, on this end of the country, a club tried something different at their annual. Target's spaced as far apart as possible and as far back as possible given the constraints of the berms. There was not one target double-tap or triple-tap in the match. Went over like a turd in the punch bowl.

Reading the news reminds me of my favorite HL Mencken quote (circa 1925): “Here, more than anywhere else that I know of or have heard of, the daily panorama of human existence, of private and communal folly – the unending procession of governmental extortions and chicaneries, of commercial brigandages and throat-slittings, of theological buffooneries, or aesthetic ribaldries, of legal swindles and harlotries, of miscellaneous rogueries, villainies, imbecilities, grotesqueries, and extravagances – is so inordinately gross and preposterous, so perfectly brought up to the highest conceivable amperage, so steadily enriched with an almost fabulous daring and originality, that only the man who was born with a petrified diaphragm can fail to laugh himself to sleep every night, and to awake every morning with all the eager, unflagging expectation of a Sunday-school superintendent touring the Paris peep-shows.”

45colt usually gets a roll crimp and 45ACP, a taper crimp.

You could possibly get by using the ACP on the Colt because the Colt doesn’t headspace on the case mouth. But not the other way around.

I didn’t think so. But wanted to double check.

No

butter and honey

Are they interchangeable?

or (for BMC) tofu YUCK !!!

The sights can be fixed.

I want one!

Sultan of Smoke (SoS) would be a lot of fun shooting my 56-50 Spencer and my ROAs with full chambers of BP. 330 grain bullets over a well compressed load of FFFg hit targets with authority. And yes the velocity is well with SASS maxi,um velocities.

Big ol’ CATHEAD biscuits!!

No Yogurt!!

It seems that Hodgdon is sending us a mixed message as it has load data for Triple Seven in cartridges (see https://hodgdonpowderco.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cowboy-action1-1.pdf). I agree that the OP's 200-gr ammo is too hot.