sandy4570
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I just try my Krist Konverter cylinder .45 LC in my Uberti Rem new army 58 "Millenium" .The load I use were 35 grain Pyrodex P and 200 grain mieser bullet lube with SPG and 30 grain of Pyrodex P toped by 250 grain RNFP Mieser bullet also lubed with SPG. After the first shot the hand will not rotate the cylinder and it have to be rotate manually for the next shot.I e-mail river junction and Walt Krist replied that it might be the black powder and pyrodex fouling symptom because the cylinder gap of this conversion is very tight and it will work fine with smokeless powder but not so with black powder . He recommended that I have gun smith grind down a few thousand inch off the cylinder chamber. I would like to know if there is an alternative to this because I know if I have this work done the cylinder gap will be too much for the smokeless round and accuratcy will suffer ( and it is very accurate indeed , especially with 250 grain black hill load) .I also believe that it might not be just the cylinder gap but more on the heavy load of the round I use. I just read that even the army back in 19th century back the load down from 40 grain to 30 grain because soldier couldn't handle the 40 grain recoil and that the civilian load is only 35 grain. I assume that Pyrodex will give slightly more velocity so that my 35 grain is really more or less a 40-45 grain black powder equivalent? Does anyone here using black powder or pyrodex load in the cylinder conversion Remington and have the same problem ? what is your recommendation ? I load down my next batch with 20 and 25 grain of Pyrodex and fill up the air space with corn meal and plan to test them soon.