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Since the OP hasn't responded I'll jump in. Charlie's tubes don't burn but shatter on ignition and expelled all things being equal. If you need any other information about his tubes you might email Charlie and ask him. He has always been a pleasure to talk to and very helpful especially when...
Thomas,
Your Sharps Sporter is a knockout. I'm drooling over the pistol grip stock. Are you shooting with the stock gas check plate or have you had the breech mods done by Larry Flees or Charlie Hahn?
What sights are on your rifle? Mine is a standard sporter in .54 cal but it would like to...
That makes sense then to have the back story in place. The musket caps are definitely thicker material than the #11s. I have an old Jukar .45
Kentucky that I've had since the 70's. People make fun of them but it was always very accurate for me. The musket cap nipple on your Jukar
should be...
All of my Zouaves in the past used a musket cap for ignition. Was the nipple changed to a #11 cap for convenience or out of necessity?
Changing back to a musket cap nipple might help with the ignition.
The profiles I chose were already in Tom's catalog so I tried those rather than submitting a new profile. His molds are inexpensive enough that I can use those as a starting point and then work from there.
That was the name I was looking for David. When I bought my Whitworth the seller included quite a few of the Polisar brothers swaged bullets. Shortly after I worked up a load for them I found out that they were no longer making them. That has been many, many years ago now.
Thanks for the reply to my post David. I have always appreciated your input.
I haven't had either of the rifles on the range for over 20 years but the Whitworths favorite load was a swaged hexagonal bullet that was available at that time and 72.5 grains of 2 F Swiss with a wad and a grease...
In anticipation of working up some loads for my PH Whitworth and Volunteer I finally decided on some molds to try. Both molds are supposed to cast a .442 in pure lead for paper patching with vintage .002 onion skin paper. The cylindrical mold should cast a 500 grain, 530 grain, and 550 grain...