
Erasmus
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I'm using 205 RNFPs in .44 mag cases over 2.1 CC of Shooters World Black (APP) since I use a coated bullet and don't want to mess with lube cookies. In my cap and ball guns I load off the gun using a cylinder loading stand and a 20 grain spout (I shoot .36s), of FFFg Goex or Shuetzen, a homemade lube wad, and a round ball. I might pre-charge some .38 special cases with powder the night before if I'm feeling plucky. For smaller monthly shoots I tend to use smokeless in a pair of SAA repros just to keep the posse moving. About 3.5 grains of Red Dot under a 125 coated RNFP in .38 special cases.
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I mean I can think of about a billion reasons to pick it up, but now is not the time. Man that's rad. There's one very similar in the Cody museum and I was enamored with it.
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When I first switched form Goex to Schuetzen I saw that sort of fouling. It just seems to be ash in my case. I don't really care because I mope the entire bore with a damp mop after each stage.
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In regards to the overshot card and glue: Yes, you should use a 10 gauge overshot card. Also, because I put a dab of lube under my cushion wad I've found that it may occasionally wipe some lube on the side of the shell. For a while I was using a cotton swab and some alcohol to quickly wipe the interior of the shell before gluing my overshot card. These days I'm much better about how I lube the bottom of the cushion wad and no longer need to wipe the interior of the shell. lastly, I prefer Elmer's School Glue or plain old Elmer's. Elmer's School Glue is water soluble and easily comes off when I'm wet tumbling my brass. Plain Elmer's isn't bad. I used Titebond 3 once because it's what I had on hand before a match and it's a pain to get off. I use enough Elmer's to cover the entire top of the overshot card ensuring it gets all the way to the edge of the card and onto the shell. In practice all I do is rotate the shell between my fingers to ensure total coverage. It sounds like a lot but I've found doing them in batches of 25 is easy enough and doesn't take a ton of time. Prime them, charge them, wad them, shot charge them, overshot, glue. Wait a couple of days and box them.
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I use an adjustable shot dipper, adjusted to it's smallest volume (7/8 oz of shot) to measure both my shot and 2F or 3F powder for black powder shotgun shells loaded in Magtech brass. It runs about 800 fps with Goex. As for using black in other categories, I don't usually have smokeless shotgun shells with me, so if I'm playing in a side match or something I'm shootings black.
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Until my wife picked up a .45 colt 1873 so she could shoot Classic Cowgirl I was sharing a .44 mag Rossi 92 with my brother in law. The load was exactly the same as my (not my wife's) .45 LC load, 2.2 CC of APP under a Bear Creek Supply 205 RNFP. The only difference was the diameter of the bullet. Now that I have my wife's .357 '73 I just shoot that, but my BIL is still shooting the .44 mag.
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On a separate note from the mechanical issues common to Uberti cap guns; it is my opinion that lubes with a bit of lanolin in them tend to help the gun run longer between cleanings. I make my own lube and lubed wads. I've varied the mixture a few times and have ranged from 25% to 10% by weight lanolin and have used other commercial lubes sans lanolin. IMO and in my experience the guns run longer without cleaning with some (more) lanolin. I think the lanolin helps the lube stick to and stay soft on the breach and cylinder faces such that even with a good build up of crud it's possible (even easy) to turn the cylinder. Now that you have a baseline, if you care to experiment, it might be worth a shot for you.
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Agreed. To this day I'm still shooting a mostly stock Pietta (swapped the nipples for Slix, but otherwise stock) and a tuned up Longhunter Uberti. The differences are night and day, but the basically stock Pietta has been putting in some work.
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Same deal here for me. I typically load my cylinders with a loading stand and so wipe off those same areas between every stage. The typically too short arbor on the Ubertis makes it very easy drive the wedge in too hard and pull the whole barrel assembly back reducing or even fully eliminating your cylinder gap.
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My absolute favorite .30-30 load is 5.5 grains of Red Dot under a coated 165 RNFP.
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SASS is not intended to be historically accurate, it's not reenactment; it's a shooting discipline with a cosplay element. NCOWS however... That said, there's no NCOWS near me and I personally enjoy the history that can be had with SASS, so I trend more towards historically accurate. Besides I like being able to use my 30 inch hammer double and 7.5 inch cap guns as excuses for me being so slow! Some day I'll pick up an 1860 clone...
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A shotgun loader will make life easier, but as mentioned above, it's not necessary. I shoot brass hulls because I want to, and I Ioad them all by hand. I don't find it to be much of a chore to put up 50 in an evening. A few evenings later I've got enough to shoot for the rest of the month or more if I'm busy. I have no experience with paper cartridges, I use a loading stand and load the cylinders off the gun. It's relatively quick and I can spend my time at home making shotgun shells and black powder cartridges for my rifle rather than gluing together paper cartridges. If I'm feeling particularly plucky I pre-charge a bunch of (in my case .38 spc) cases and store them in a plastic ammo box. I use a piece of old foam camping pad to lay over the top and the plastic case lid compresses the foam over the case mouths keeping the powder from falling out. With these pre-measured charges I can load on the gun or on the loading stand pretty easily. I've never had a problem with wind that can't be fixed by just going back to using the loading stand and charging my cylinders with a 20 grain spout on my flask. Or just buy have 12 cylinders on hand and charge them all at home.
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And keep doing it. PT isn't something you do for a few weeks and stop because you're all better. You will maximize the benefits of PT by continuing to do PT. That doesn't mean going to the office and paying someone else, they should be teaching you what exercises to do and how to do them at home.
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How Many States Have You Shot Cowboy In - Part II?
Erasmus replied to Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563L's topic in SASS Wire
California and Nevada! I'm hoping to add Washington soon. -
But what if you're the kind of person that just has to shoot an imported powder?