Originally Posted by
Tuna
I would suggest that if your going to shoot it with BP, that you use a fiber wads and not the plastic cups for modern cases and shot. This will reduce pressure and it will also help clean the barrel with each shot you fire.
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I saw a breach blown off a cowboy action side by side because the owner made black powder reloads using a modern wad. Emri had to explain it to me but basically a modern wad is the same thing as not tamping a ball down all the way, leaving an air gap that will kaboom the gun.
Phillip McGregor (OFC)
"I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur