577 with Pyrodex
I have a can of Pyrodex R S powder and have never loaded brass cases with one of the subsitutes before. I know you are supposed to use Pyrodex and 777 as volume not weight but how do you come up with...
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If you want the most consistent performance with the least corrosion potential, IMHO use regular black powder. All of the substitutes, except American Pioneer, are more corrosive than BP. Either...
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For a quick clean up at the range and through cleaning at home, I've found moist baby wipes with lanolin to be good. They are inexpensive, packaged in pullout sheets, and moisten and remove fouling...
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Southernfi; I like the baby wipes idea as I have a grandaughter still in dippers so we have those around. Think I will try that at the range and do a more through cleaning after I get home. I do think...
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Drifter Mike,Before I found out that turned cases were more likely to crack than drawn brass, I reloaded a handfull of 577-450 3 or 4 times, before ever anealing them. Not a single problem. BUT, I...
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"I know you are supposed to use Pyrodex and 777 as volume not weight but how do you come up with a volume if you have nothing to base it on? I want to use this in a 577 Snider, I have 10 turned cases...
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sorry i just have to try and make a major point here..... never use glycol anti-freeze for things like cleaning you gun as one person suggested. the stuff is one of the nastyest poisons around. your...
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Yes glycol is poisonous, not as bad as gasoline or a wide host of other things commonly found around the house, but poisonous. The amount used to soak a few patches for wiping a bore is negligible and...
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MCQueen1, Thank You! That is a very easy way to come up wiit a starting load! Thanks to all the answeres to my questions, I knew the members of this board would come through! One other question and I...
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There are some threads in the reloading archive on it. I wouldnt try it myself. It would be too easy to damage a 140 year old rifle with smokeless. A Snider in good sound condition should digest any...
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My Sniders will take cartridges with bullets sized to .600. 10 grains of Unique under a .600 conical and 12 grains of Green Dot under a .600 ball give mild low-pressure loads. In a resized case they...
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Tacolneston, Do you use a filler in the case or just tip the rifle up to settle the powder back against the primer? What about bullet lube? I am just looking for a easy way to shoot this old girl and...
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I don't use any form of filler or wad. I used to use a tuft of cushion stuffing (dacron?), but had some hangfires and an occasional misfire in Kynoch "ballon head" cases, when the powder settled into...
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At a club shoot today I tried the load of 10 grains of Unique and a .600 conical at 100 yards, fired through a Mk III carbine made by BSA&M in 1885 for an Australian contract. With the sight set...
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Sounds good to me, I will give that load a try. Though I would get some black powder but the only shop I know of has closed. Don't know where I will get some! Guess CA is doing what they want....close...
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hey, drifter mike, which shop in CA has closed? Do you live in northern or southern CA? The reason you had me worried is that i only know of one(1) gunstore in Orange County selling Black powder-i...
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Singleshotman, I am out in Riverside,CA The shop that closed was The Powder Keg, the only place I new of that sold Black Powder. We now have 2 gun shops here, Centerfire and Turners ( which I REFUSEto...
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I'm not going to say much or this will get too political. Here in the UK the problem is the transport regulations which make it very expensive for dealers to get their supplies. On top of which there...
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Another afterthought. If anyone in the UK has not heard about the new storage regulations there are links on www.grovesmallarms.com Go to News and look at the entry for 2nd October.
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Hey Pinky , stoke that old Whitworth up with Swis and you could shoot all the way across that Island and maybe sink a battle ship . cheers Ian.It's not so much the size of the hole but where it is
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To address the question of cleaning...no matter which powder is used...I swab at the range with soapy water and drop the cases in it until I get home. At home I place the muzzle down onto a thick rag...
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