Musket Query

[Come On Christmas]

I am considering the purchase of a 72 caliber musket. I know to subtract 10 or 15 thousandths to determine the size patched ball to use.

 

Maybe I didn't look long enough, but I looked at my usual sources and couldn't find that big a ball. This was a common size during the revolutionary war?

 

Help?

[Buffalo Douglas]

There are some on Dixie Gun Works website With something that big, you might have a hard time finding commercial round balls. I would bet most of the market for round balls is in the 54 or smaller caliber.

[Come On Christmas]

I can't remember whether I looked at Dixie or not. The biggest ball I found on Lee precisions site was .690 which is 30 thousandths that would be about the thickness of blue Jean material?

[Subdeacon Joe]

I can't remember whether I looked at Dixie or not. The biggest ball I found on Lee precisions site was .690 which is 30 thousandths that would be about the thickness of blue Jean material?

 

 

I used a .690 ball with a heavy patch out of a cap-lock 12 ga. with great success. I had found a Lyman .690 mould and cast my own.

[Yellowhouse Sam # 25171]

69 cal ball with .015 patching x 2 = .69 + .030 = .720. Order the .69 balls.

[Tom Bullweed]

.690 with pillow ticking is a common load for the .72 caliber smoothbore.

[Trigger Mike]

i bought some .735 for my brown bess flintlock from dixie gun works, and also from a local black powder shop once long ago. they work fine in my 75 caliber brown bess

[Trigger Mike]

cabelas has some

 

http://www.cabelas.com/product/shooting/black-powder/sabots-bullets-round-balls|/pc/104792580/c/104701680/sc/104547780/large-caliber-musket-round-balls/1200488.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fsabots-bullets-round-balls%2F_%2FN-1100204%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_104547780