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[nkbj]

So writes the fellow with the .44 revolver !

LD

That's right. Pietta .44's with .446/.447 chambers shoot .453 balls real good same as the .46 bore rifle.
Got a petite half stock to shoot .38 ball like the .36 revolvers.
But I'm still sneaking up on a .42 bore rifle to shoot the .41 balls like my .40 caliber 1851.

I like having rifles and revolvers that shoot the same ammo.
Once going caseless it was a whole new way of doing things.

 

[Carbon 6]

So writes the fellow with the .44 revolver !

LD

Oh, the irony in that statement is dizzying.

 

[Mad L]

Last week a friend brought me his TC .50cal Hawken that he stuck a brush in. We tried a few things, I think the threads were stripped as I could not get any of my rods to grab hold (just pulled right off). He said he had a patch over the brush as well.
After a lot of struggling, I shot some BreakFree down the barrel and let it drain, then removed the nipple and poured alchohol into the breach (to dry it out), went outside and forced a good 50-ot grains of powder into the breach and put the nipple back on and *Pow*...only the cap went off, no ignition.
But I found when I tried to shove more powder in it went in easier; so i loaded about 30+ more grain, then slapped the heck out of it (to be sure it settled in the breach), one more cap and *POW* , no idea where that brush landed but the rifle is back out on the range!