This guy aint doing any favors for our hobby...
He has no warning, at all, against using smokeless powder in C&B Revolvers.
Excerpt from The London Colt by Richard Venola page 72:
"Loading a cap and ball revolver is an inexact science, with errant powder grains refusing to in the cylinder, metering issues with the flask, and ball compression irregularities on the powder. Still, I managed to average 1,048 fps with Goex, 1,039 fps with Pyrodex, and 409 fps with Trail Boss.
The Remington caps I was using simply didn't have enough umph to ignite the Trail Boss, and I could see burning little donuts flying like sparks through the Oehler's reflectors. Trail Boss is a fabulous product for cartridges in black powder replica guns. The actual powder grains are shaped like tiny donuts; the idea is that even though they are smokeless nitrocellulose, you can't get enough into a case to generate too much pressure. You also can't get the stubborn little donuts to meter properly in the powder flask and have to fill the chambers with a rolled paper funnel. Great product - wrong application.
Almost every percussion cap ruptured, with fragments cluttering the action and blocking the cylinder rotation. They really need to use heavier and better brass in the manufacturing. I must search the Dixie Catalog for alternatives..."
Some unknowing shooter is going to read the above and think - hmm lets try crushing those grains of Trail Boss to really get them in the chambers or better yet how about some Blue Dot?
He has no warning, at all, against using smokeless powder in C&B Revolvers.
Excerpt from The London Colt by Richard Venola page 72:
"Loading a cap and ball revolver is an inexact science, with errant powder grains refusing to in the cylinder, metering issues with the flask, and ball compression irregularities on the powder. Still, I managed to average 1,048 fps with Goex, 1,039 fps with Pyrodex, and 409 fps with Trail Boss.
The Remington caps I was using simply didn't have enough umph to ignite the Trail Boss, and I could see burning little donuts flying like sparks through the Oehler's reflectors. Trail Boss is a fabulous product for cartridges in black powder replica guns. The actual powder grains are shaped like tiny donuts; the idea is that even though they are smokeless nitrocellulose, you can't get enough into a case to generate too much pressure. You also can't get the stubborn little donuts to meter properly in the powder flask and have to fill the chambers with a rolled paper funnel. Great product - wrong application.
Almost every percussion cap ruptured, with fragments cluttering the action and blocking the cylinder rotation. They really need to use heavier and better brass in the manufacturing. I must search the Dixie Catalog for alternatives..."
Some unknowing shooter is going to read the above and think - hmm lets try crushing those grains of Trail Boss to really get them in the chambers or better yet how about some Blue Dot?
