Pond James Pond
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I am curious to know if regular plated bullets would work in a muzzle-loader.
For example, one gun I've been reading about recently has been the Uberti Remington Revolving Carbine. It is a .44 (.427 I think).
I personally load some .44 Mag loads with a .429 200gn truncated cone bullet. It is a soft bullet, probably pure lead, but with a very thin copper plate and is further coated with a polymer to act as a lubricant in the bore, allowing for higher than usual velocities in loads.
It also has a concave base.
So it is probably pure lead, only 0.002" off the bore of the calibre of the muzzle-loader and already has a lube of sorts on the bullet.
Is there any reason such a bullet could not be used in a muzzle-loader?
For example, one gun I've been reading about recently has been the Uberti Remington Revolving Carbine. It is a .44 (.427 I think).
I personally load some .44 Mag loads with a .429 200gn truncated cone bullet. It is a soft bullet, probably pure lead, but with a very thin copper plate and is further coated with a polymer to act as a lubricant in the bore, allowing for higher than usual velocities in loads.
It also has a concave base.
So it is probably pure lead, only 0.002" off the bore of the calibre of the muzzle-loader and already has a lube of sorts on the bullet.
Is there any reason such a bullet could not be used in a muzzle-loader?