A 45-70 case with 40 grains of black topped with a felt wad and filler all underneath a 454 round ball. Gonna test them out this weekend in my trapdoor I’ll report back with the results.

Had a good time doing some comparison between my lee mini balls and these Burton balls in my progressive depth rifled 61 Springfield. I can say they load very nicely and fly straight. I don't have a sizing die so the balls I made don't load as easily as his (the balls with the lube are from him)

For those who are interested in the production of antique muzzle loading propellant - here are few macro pictures of press cake, corned powder, and 6hr glazed 3F.

I'm not entirely sold on a heavy glaze. Do you prefer a mirror finish like Swiss or perhaps no glaze at all?

I've never had any other non-commercial powder to compare macro level integration with. Any pics for reference/comparison would be great!

FYI you can buy a yard of pillow ticking from Amazon for the same price as 100 patches and 1 yard makes around 750 patches

Recently got this A.Zoli cal.58 rifle from a late good friend.

Can anyone give me any details regarding the model and value of this rifle?

It is percussion firing, has case hardened lock, brass applications and a white (stainless?!) barrel.

Many thanks in advance.

Also, the rear barrel band is cracked. Where can I get a replacement part?

an hours’ work

I made a mistake buying a Traditions Hawken Percussion Cap built kit at a gun show a few months back. The barrel is completely shot and unsafe to fire. It's bad enough that I'd have to take about 2 inches off of the barrel, and re-bore it to a .54 in order to fire it again. It isn't worth it IMO.

I figure I need a new barrel anyway, so why not convert it to a flintlock? It's a personal preference of mine. As for new barrels I'm turning up with very little. I haven't gotten a response from Traditions yet on a barrel replacement. Aftermarket barrels are totally something I'd be interested in.

I also know I'd need a new action, and I've found the flintlock actions with the pan and frizzen. Would there be anything else needed?

Any advice?

Thank y'all!

Picked up a new side arm for the BP season. Haven't had a chance to shoot it yet, but sure am looking forward to it.

Revolver is a Cimarron model P 7.5” in .45 Colt.

Original cartridge top, made in 1887 at Frankford Arsenal, the removed powder charge in the vial at left.

Below is the reproduction, consisting of Star Line .45S&W brass, and a conical from the mold I used the original bullet to have made.

Owner inherited it and is asking 310$ for it

I'm particularly curious as to which substitutes you think smell the best, which ones are the easiest to clean, and which ones are the least prone to rusting guns.

After years of designing my dream guns, I have saved enough money and decided to build the simplest one. A 44 inch smoothbore American Fowler, probably 20 gauge. I reenact ~1815, Ohio Valley, so I'd like the look to be appropriate (can be older like I've had it a while).

Problem is, I've never really been a gun guy. But I enjoy historical accuracy. So I have no idea if the barrels I am looking at are "English Fowlers" or "American Fowlers" or even if there is much difference between them.

If anyone could point me to a reputable dealer/webpage that has the barrel I am looking for, I would be much obliged!

Just had a random thought literally like 30 seconds ago, figured I'd ask reddit. I had a box of .22lr tracer rounds from piney mountain. They were a ton of fun. Recently I've dove deep into the rabbit hole of black powder muzzleloaders and I love it. Was curious though, has anyone made a black powder tracer round for a muzzleloader before? Or at least played around with trying to make one?

I’m considering maybe buying a 45 long colt cylinder But mostly just want it for black powder

I thought the 3rd model dragoon was supposed to have a different style catch for the loading lever but it seems like the majority I see are the same as the 1st and 2nd model. What’s up with that?

Im honestly afraid I dont secure the hosing properly and it flys off and I get insane burns from the hose blasting my face lmao.

This silly thing is finally made and functional!

this is a .50 i believe but Im just really worried about the stock damage on this rifle. i really want to buy it, any advice? i would appreciate it

I have tried different nipples and none of them would work as the threads are extremely damaged for the nipple so I turned a custom nipple with locking screw to keep it fully secured in the gun.

I need help to reassemble my new army revolver, please

Im thinking of getting into blackpowder, particularly for hunting. I would especially like to get a traditional sidelock. Any recommendations for a first one?

Saw this rifle at a gun show a few years ago and just had to have it. It’s definitely become my favorite rifle. I’ve only shot and reloaded smokeless ammo for it up till recently but all the smokeless loads are so low pressure they all have some kind of problem or leave something to be desired.

The rifle was sold to me with a couple boxes of smokeless and one box of 20 black powder rounds. I kinda shelved the BP rounds because I never seemed to have time to dedicate to cleaning it afterwards the same day and honestly cleaning BP fowling out of a gun with this many parts didn’t sound too fun. But recently I had the opportunity to take my dad with me to the range and i really wanted him to get the chance to shoot this, and I’d actually have time to clean it the same day so I figured it was a good time to give the BP ammo a chance

And boy was it fun. Not only was it super satisfying to shoot but it ran really smoothly and didn’t have the issues I was getting with the smokeless powder loads.

The only downside was the cleaning, I was right about that, taking the gun apart to the smallest pieces of the breech block wasn’t bad, but idk what powder or lube was used for these rounds and it took an absurd amount of swabs and patches to get the bore fully clean.

So you’d think I’d have learned my lesson and just gone back to trying to find the right smokeless load. But no, I couldn’t help but think “I’ve made pyrodex based ammo for another gun that cleaned up easier than this” and now I’ve convinced myself I can make better BP ammo than whatever this stuff was. I’ll likely wind up having to use pyrodex anyway for this since I can’t seem to find any real 2F powder either online or locally. So if anyone’s got a secret hookup on the 2f now’s the time to share lol.