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    I finally got my belly full of shootin

    Yeah after all that my age took over, I was ready for a nap, but what lube do you use? I just had a bunch of left over felt wads from Cabelas, and swabbed the bore at the beginning of the shootin with bore butter. It seemed to have the worst failing where the hammer hit the nipples, the whole...
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    I finally got my belly full of shootin

    Friday was a banner day for me, my two new blk powder revolvers came in a Pietta 1851 Colt Navy in .44 cal, and an Uberti 1862 Police model in .36 cal, as well as my Dr per scribed specticals, now both the sights and target are crystal clear. That was the signal to light up the property, and...
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    Just got two new revolvers first impressions

    Well I want to thank all of you for the kind words,and GREAT INFO, its gonna be close to 70 here in central Indiana tomorrow, so they’re both gonna get shot A LOT. Yeah that 62 police model is a cute little thing, I plan on puttin on Pearl grips for her, I think then she’d be a daisy. I don’t...
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    Just got two new revolvers first impressions

    Sorry you’ve lost me, as I’ve said I’m certainly no expert, and I’m not sure what you mean by arbor bottom out fit. thanks Paul
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    Just got two new revolvers first impressions

    This is a pic of them, the one on the left is the Pietta ( Taylor’s) 1851 Colt Navy in .44, the other is the 1862 Uberti police model In .36 cal.
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    Just got two new revolvers first impressions

    Hi All, yesterday my new blk powder revolvers came in, an Uberti 1862 Colt Police , and a Pietta ( Taylor’s) 1851 Colt Navy. First the Uberti 1862 police, when I pulled it out of the box it was covered with preservative oil, when I tried to pull back the hammer , I also had to spin the cylinder...
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    Cap jams

    Thanks much for the info, yeah I’m gonna shoot it first I was just getting ready for “ what if’s.” I hope it’s gonna be trouble free. I have an 1858 Remington sheriffs model made by Pietta and it’s been a real pleasure, never any probs with that gun. I just got my shootin range finished...
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    Cap jams

    I just bought an 1862 Uberti police model in .36 cal. Now I haven’t even gotten the gun yet, it will be delivered some time this week. But I was looking at them on You Tube and it seems they have a problem with the caps coming off the nipples and jamming the action. They said there’s 3 fixes for...
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    Cleaning my GPR

    I have a Lyman GPR, I shot it last Tuesday and before I left the range I swabbed the barrel with Hoppes 9 plus. Then when I got home I filled a bucket with hot soapy water and went to work on cleaning the barrel. I put a 12 gage patch on the jag and pumped the soapy water up through the nipple...
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    Black powder shops in Indiana

    I know Cabelas is expensive not only with black powder stuff but with most things firearms related. But my daughter is starting school in Indy next week so we drove out there to make sure she knows where she's going, and Cabelas is right off I69 on the way so I stopped to get the remainder of...
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    Black powder shops in Indiana

    I hope this is the right place to post this. We moved to north central Indiana a little over a yr ago, so I'm still not real familiar with the area. I'm In between Kokomo, and Ft Wayne there's lots of gunshops and archery around here but very little traditional muzzle loader stuff. I've looked...
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    50 cal TC Hawken & 54 cal Lyman GPR Range report

    Back in the mid 70's I bought a 50 cal TC Hawken percussion rifle kit, until recently I only fired about 50 rnds through her. Then about 6-8 yrs ago I bought a Lyman GPR IN 54 cal also percussion, and only fired maybe 50 rnds through her as well. Lately after many yrs of shooting long range...
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    Pietta 1858 New Army and confused

    Wow I want to thank all you guys for the "education" it's really informative, I greatly appriciate it. I'm sure this info is gonna save me a lot of head scratchin I'm gonna shoot it next week and I' ll make sure I post a range report, the biggest thing I learned is when the black powder comes...
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    finding the right size ball and patch

    Thanks very much for all the info, I'm learning Paul
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    Pietta 1858 New Army and confused

    I just got a new Pietta 1858 New Army revolver and Im trying to get everything together in order to shoot it but theres a few conflicting things. The gun came with two manuals, the one from Pietta, and one from Cabelas. The Pietta manual says to use .454 lead round balls but the Cabelas manual...
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    finding the right size ball and patch

    Well then I guess everything is fine, the patches look very good except for the frayed edges, Thanks again for the info I greatly appriciate it Paul
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    finding the right size ball and patch

    I want to thank you guys for all the info, I took the TC Hawken out shooting the other day, it did ok and I recovered most of the patches. I was shooting 80 guns of FFG the accuracy was good, and the patches weren't too dirty, they weren't burned, you could barely make out the ball impression on...
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    finding the right size ball and patch

    Hi All, It's been a long time since I've been on this forum and it's good to be back, I've been busy shooting long range tactical, but I never forgot how much fun shooting black powder is, and now Im ready to fire up the old smoke poles again. It's been about 5-6 yrs since I shot my 50 cal TC...
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    I did something really stupid

    I've been shooting all my life (the modern stuff) I was even sent to the U.S army marksmanship training unit before I went to Nam, I thought I had everything down pat. But this BP stuff is a different breed of animal, I know shooting is shooting, the theory is the same, and sight alinment is the...
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    I did something really stupid

    I took Col. Batguano's advice, and used my bullet puller and the stuck patches came right out. I really dodged the bullet that time, and I won't do that stupid stunt again. Im new to this BP thing, so I guess this is the first of many mistakes. I may do some other dumb things, but I learn from...
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