loading 51 navy question

I checked my Pietta .44 Navy. All six chambers with two powder measures gave me an average of 46 grains to the very top. A round ball well displace ten grains. Do the math.

I don't understand posting such incorrect loading information. It's one thing the stretch reality about your shooting ability but bad load info can hurt people.:confused:
 
Right but.....

MCB,

Just think about it. A guy who would try to put that much powder in the chamber would also lie about it. Mykeal, in his always gentle and diplomatic tone put it about as kindly as one could imagine in his post of a couple of days ago. (Idiot and liar)
 
Make SURE you fully disassemble the gun when cleaning, do not just field strip, black powder gets all down in the frame, IF left there it will cause you problems.
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More BS. I tear mine down maybe once a year if I think about it.
 
Hawg...I agree with you but I don't do it your way

I take my pistols down to parade rest every time I shoot them but not because they need it. I think I could apply Hawg's technique without negative impact. I just like cleaning my pistols.

I like maintaining black powder revolvers about five times as much as I like shooting black powder revolvers. (and that is a lot).
 
mykeal, You didn't read my post. I have no intention of doing such. It was an experiment to see if the chamber would actually hold that much powder. It did. If I rammed a ball on it I would have to go thru the puke of getting it out because I'm sure a heck not going to shoot it out.
 
I'm with Mykeeal, Go aheah and try your 47 grains, you Idiot!

I just joined this esteemed eclectic rowdy bunch, but I do recognize some of the posters from the "other" forum.

You folks certainly tell it like it is, all right! Nothing wrong with that either!

You couldn't get 47 grains and a ball into that cylinder with a shoe horn or a ram capable of breaking solid rock!

777 is a little hotter than real black, so I'd use a second wad under the ball to bring it up nearer the chamber mouth. That's IF I use 777 at all, cause the first choice would be regular black!

Make smoke, don't just B.S. me!

Dave
 
Noz - I did read your post. You clearly stated that you could get 47 grains of powder in the chamber and then ASSUMED that you could still ram a ball down into the chamber. I then rather clearly said your ASSUMPTION was wrong and challenged you to prove otherwise.
 
I checked my Pietta .44 Navy. All six chambers with two powder measures gave me an average of 46 grains to the very top. A round ball well displace ten grains. Do the math.
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I wonder if it's possible that the guy who says he loads 47 grains is using a powder measuring device that reads high?
 
Of course it's possible. I have 4 graduated variable powder measures; at 40 gr the difference between the two with the greatest disagreement is 13%. After settlling, one throws 42 gr by weight of real black and the other throws 37 gr, although both read 40 gr by volume.
 
I wonder if it's possible that the guy who says he loads 47 grains is using a powder measuring device that reads high?
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A miss marked powder measure or miss reading the powder measure would be an explanation for the claim of 47+ grains and a ball.
 
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