WHile shooting my Piettia '58 at my Club, I met a guy who had a couple real Remmies and we had a long talk about the barrels.
He told me that shooting a plain lead ball, the origonals shot extremelly accurately! Said the Conicals didn't do so well with the Gain Twist Rifling!
His powder charges were 35 gr of Black Powder with the balls.
He didn't experience much trouble with BP fouling if he used a Crisco soaked patch he said.
It's good to hear the stories of the 'real' thing and wonder what it was like...
I'm happy with my replicas, they don't jam with caps like colt copies do, and if I use lubed patches also, I don't getmuch fouling either!
BTW, both my '58 replicas (long and short bbls) like the round ball best and also like 35gr charges of Pyrodex (BP is hard to get here in Calif!).
BPDave
He told me that shooting a plain lead ball, the origonals shot extremelly accurately! Said the Conicals didn't do so well with the Gain Twist Rifling!
His powder charges were 35 gr of Black Powder with the balls.
He didn't experience much trouble with BP fouling if he used a Crisco soaked patch he said.
It's good to hear the stories of the 'real' thing and wonder what it was like...
I'm happy with my replicas, they don't jam with caps like colt copies do, and if I use lubed patches also, I don't getmuch fouling either!
BTW, both my '58 replicas (long and short bbls) like the round ball best and also like 35gr charges of Pyrodex (BP is hard to get here in Calif!).
BPDave