Sounds like you had a great time and great beginning with your new Remy Wyoming Whitetail.
+1 to what Sewerman said. Just one thing to add. I don't use greased felt wads under the projectiles nor grease over the projectiles anymore. Just my preference.
Instead, I pour cornmeal over the top of my powder charge and then seat the ball on top of the cornmeal. The corn meal forms a great barrier over the black powder that no flame from an adjoining cylinder front is going to get past to chainfire. It keeps my revolvers from being a sticky mess and I don't have to make my own nor spend money on greased felt wads. I have not found any negative aspects to doing it this way. I get about four cylinders shot before the cylinder starts to bind and I have to take the cylinder off and wipe the fouling off the arbor and run a patch through the cylinder's arbor hole, dab a little lube on the arbor and put it back together. All of which I used to have to do
anyway when I used to use grease over the projectiles.
Of course this only works if you have enough room in the chamber left for the cornmeal and shoot light 20 grain charges like I do. If you shoot heavier charges, you may not have enough room for the cornmeal or if only a little room, not sufficient enough cornmeal over the powder to effect a sufficient barrier to cylinder front chainfire. Then you would indeed need a greased felt wad under the ball or grease over the ball. Yes you could rely on a .457 ball to swage so tightly into the cylinder that it SHOULD preclude a chainfire on the front of the cylinder, but then that is never really "sure" and I'd still use a greased felt wad or grease if I couldn't have a sufficient barrier of cornmeal over the powder.
Just make sure that in each chamber that the cornmeal stays level over the powder charge just before you ram the ball on top of the cornmeal. If the cornmeal were to get angled in the chamber uncovering any part of the black powder before you rammed the ball, that black powder could be exposed to a cylinder front flame causing a chainfire. If you have plenty of cornmeal over the powder, this usually isn't a problem, but if you are using a bigger charge of BP other than the light 20 grains I use, you may not have as much cornmeal over the BP and it could angle to the side and expose BP if not carefully kept level.
And if you are camping out hunting or fishing with your BP revolver on your hip, you could fish and use the cornmeal for fish batter or making corn dodgers.
I joked, but seriously....you could. I carry a plastic mayonnaise jar of cornmeal with me for my BP revolver loading. You can use grits for loading too instead of corn meal.
Darn, making myself hungry now for cornmeal battered catfish and some corn dodgers and grits!
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