Video - Shooting cap & ball with paper cartridges

Hawg - I checked T or the W and they show a Lee 90378 double cavity mold for 130 grain .375 conicals - is this the one you are using for your 36s? I'm using 375 balls in both my Pietta Remington 36 Navy and my Uberti '51 Colt Navy for with the tapered base, I'm assuming these would work in both and have room to index under the loading rammer? I haven't shot conicals out of a C & B revolver for years but would like to have a go at it again. What are your accuracy results like comparing the round ball with the conicals? Much of any difference? The conicals I shot years ago were solid base and I see the ones from the above mold are hollow base. What are you using for lube (I'm assuming you are lubing the base?) - are you using Crisco the same as in a .58 minie? Thanks for any info you can provide. BTW - T of the W lists the double cavity mold at $19.25 + shipping. I've used steel molds as well as the Lee molds - RB and minie - was happy with both. I think Lee puts out a good product at a reasonable price. Thanks!
 
Bedbug, thats the mold I have but I got mine from Midway for about the same price. It is a solid base mold tho. Accuracy is about the same as round balls. I use a Crisco/beeswax mix for lube. As you can see in the pic most of the bullet seats from thumb pressure and leaves plenty of room for it to get under the ram.

6 shots, minute of coffee can at 25 yds.

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But you say there's only five holes?


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Expansion with stick on wheel weights is good too.

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Hawg - my mistake on the hollow base - I went back and took a better look at the mold. :D From the looks of your coffee can . . . well . . . I'm glad I'm not a facin' you in a gun fight! :) Impressive indeed! I wondered about "key holing" as well with a conical - not based on your coffee can but I remember years ago my friend and I used conicals in his Remmie - this was in the 60s - and we had some problems with it. It was a bronze/brass frame Richland Arms NMA. We always figured the cause was the difference in the cylinder bore and the barrel bore. I had the same problem with my Remington Zouave when I was shooting NSSA (key holing) until I got the minie size corrected and sized right. My bore was just oversize enough that they'd hit sideways - I never was in a hurry to correct it as it peeved one of the guys on the team who had plenty of money and was shooting a custom built rifle. :) I think that when I get back to MI, I'll order one of the 36 conical molds and give it a try - your shooting has cinvinced me that they have a lot of merit! My friend died about 40 years ago and his widow gave me the Richland Arms Remmie as a keepsake. Unfortunately, his sone had taken it apart and lost the loading lever - how, I don't know. I'm hoping that I can get a replacement fitted to it as I can't find a Richland Arms loading lever ass'y. Maybe that would be a good "project" for Doc Hoy? :) Thanks for the info and photos Hawg - greatly appreciated! :)
 
Richland Arms was an importer. They imported guns from Pietta, ASM and some Spanish guns. I'd check the gun over for a makers mark and proofs. If it's not Spanish and you can figure out who made it you can probably find parts for it. Pietta parts may work anyway with some fitting. As for mine you can see the rifling marks on the fired bullet I posted.
 
Thanks Hawg - I'm still in AZ and the pistol is back in the safe in MI - I'll check that out when I get back for sure and see if I can find any markings to tell the mfg. If need be, I just might have to buy one of the Remmie NMA from Cabelas just to see if the loading lever is interchangeable? :D But then, I'd have one of those "big 44s" - I'd have to put my "big boy pants on" and get a mold for that one too . . . sigh . . amazing how one thing leads to another! :D Thanks!
 
Great post! this video and the ones posted in the same place on you tube gave me some great ideas to make simple cartidges--nothing fancy like these conicals, just ball cartridges. Rolled a quick six this evening.
 
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