I have been shooting Cap anc Ball Revolvers about 2 1/2 years now but the question if the right load still haunts me!
I have read about so many different powder charges for the '51 Navy that I am bewildered! Loade from 26 gr to 25gr are advised.
I have even been told that a cylinderfull is NOT an overcharge, but I won't do that!
Of the ones I read I settled on a 22gr charge of Pyrodex (real BP is impossible to find) for my Uberti ''51 Navy and my Piettia '61 Police Navy models.
I read the spec's on different Flasks and even the Flasks sold at Cabelas come with a 16gr charge spout!
So just what is a proper charge of Pyrodex (mwasures the sane as real BP)?
At 22 gr it dosen't seem or shoot like an overcharge for the .36.
BTW, I use the same 22gr charge in my Brass Freme Piettia .44, reasoning that this is a meduim charge. I tried several loads and from reading Mike V.'s fine article in Guns of the old West, I settled on the 22gr charge.
This charge fires solidly, with little recoil, and good accuracy.
By a similar process I deduced that a 35gr charge works well in my '58 Remingtons.
What is the right charge for all these guns? am I exceeding the right charges?
Thanks,
ZVP
I have read about so many different powder charges for the '51 Navy that I am bewildered! Loade from 26 gr to 25gr are advised.
I have even been told that a cylinderfull is NOT an overcharge, but I won't do that!
Of the ones I read I settled on a 22gr charge of Pyrodex (real BP is impossible to find) for my Uberti ''51 Navy and my Piettia '61 Police Navy models.
I read the spec's on different Flasks and even the Flasks sold at Cabelas come with a 16gr charge spout!
So just what is a proper charge of Pyrodex (mwasures the sane as real BP)?
At 22 gr it dosen't seem or shoot like an overcharge for the .36.
BTW, I use the same 22gr charge in my Brass Freme Piettia .44, reasoning that this is a meduim charge. I tried several loads and from reading Mike V.'s fine article in Guns of the old West, I settled on the 22gr charge.
This charge fires solidly, with little recoil, and good accuracy.
By a similar process I deduced that a 35gr charge works well in my '58 Remingtons.
What is the right charge for all these guns? am I exceeding the right charges?
Thanks,
ZVP
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