Evening folks. I am simply terrible at blackpowder. I do have a cap and ball revolver, and I've shot it successfully many times, but I've decided i want to go deeper and shoot one of my blackpowder rifles that previously was just a beautiful wall hanger. A Vetterli to be specific.
As i said. I'm terrible at blackpowder. For that cap and ball revolver i had pyrodex FFFFg (Which i know now to be less then stellar) but i was unimpressed by its performance, possibly because i had no idea what the grades of powder meant at the time.
I recently bought an order of 5lbs of various powders so i can jump into it fully. 1f, 1.5f, 2f, 3f(x2) of varied make from Goex, Swiss, Kik, and Shuetzen, just so i can have a wide taste of whats on the market. I'm not entirely sure what powder is best for what application though. I seen a rough description of recommended uses, but pistol was on all of them but 4f, so I took the list with a grain of salt. More to the point, the Vetterli uses a cartridge and after some research there seems to be much more complicated workings than my cap and ball revolver ever had.
I know nothing of these filler mediums other than its used to fill up the case to remove any airpockets, which some people seem to avoid jump by cramming the case full and tapping it down. I've never used wadding, let alone lubed wads, I'm not sure how effective a wad would be in a bottlenecked cartridge either.
I don't plan to stop at the Vetterli. Eventually I'll work up the courage for the Martini Henry, or Trapdoor springfield.
Guess i just want to hear from you instead of random youtubers loading cowboy loads and whatnot. I've already missed a ton of information, I'm sure theres more that could potentially kaboom me.
As i said. I'm terrible at blackpowder. For that cap and ball revolver i had pyrodex FFFFg (Which i know now to be less then stellar) but i was unimpressed by its performance, possibly because i had no idea what the grades of powder meant at the time.
I recently bought an order of 5lbs of various powders so i can jump into it fully. 1f, 1.5f, 2f, 3f(x2) of varied make from Goex, Swiss, Kik, and Shuetzen, just so i can have a wide taste of whats on the market. I'm not entirely sure what powder is best for what application though. I seen a rough description of recommended uses, but pistol was on all of them but 4f, so I took the list with a grain of salt. More to the point, the Vetterli uses a cartridge and after some research there seems to be much more complicated workings than my cap and ball revolver ever had.
I know nothing of these filler mediums other than its used to fill up the case to remove any airpockets, which some people seem to avoid jump by cramming the case full and tapping it down. I've never used wadding, let alone lubed wads, I'm not sure how effective a wad would be in a bottlenecked cartridge either.
I don't plan to stop at the Vetterli. Eventually I'll work up the courage for the Martini Henry, or Trapdoor springfield.
Guess i just want to hear from you instead of random youtubers loading cowboy loads and whatnot. I've already missed a ton of information, I'm sure theres more that could potentially kaboom me.