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Difference in manuals... Cabela's & Pietta
- Thread starter Miami_JBT
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As Ronald Reagan always said, "Well...."
As regards powder loads, don't pay any attention to the Manuals. They were written by lawyers not shooters.
Start small and work up to the load that works best for you in each individual pistol.
The final load will be a compromise between small enough to provide good accuracy and performance while keeping the forces that the pistol has to absorb at a low level and large enough to make the smoke, flash, recoil and noise of sufficient quantity to satisfy your inner child.
Tnx,
As regards powder loads, don't pay any attention to the Manuals. They were written by lawyers not shooters.
Start small and work up to the load that works best for you in each individual pistol.
The final load will be a compromise between small enough to provide good accuracy and performance while keeping the forces that the pistol has to absorb at a low level and large enough to make the smoke, flash, recoil and noise of sufficient quantity to satisfy your inner child.
Tnx,
From THR & for the benefit of others. Most would consider the maximum to be conservative:
The Pietta manual on PDF lists 25 & 30 grains of fffg as the maximum for each revolver depending on conicals or balls, and 19 & 22 grains of fffg for the minimum depending on conicals or balls.
The same manual and loads are shared for all of the Pietta .44 Remington & Colt models except for the Walker & Dragoons.
http://www.traditionsfirearms.com/eshop/products/CAP BALL REVOLVER INFO 2.pdf
You have to have enough powder in the chamber that the ball will give you some compression when it is seated. You have to leave enough room after powder that the ball will seat below the surface of the face of the cylinder. Anything between those two limits is up to you. I've found that the 44s shoot best at around 28 grs of FFFg.