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damoc | 05-13-2007 10:39 AM
black powder revolver here is a question for all you gun enthusiasts I recently purchased a 36 cal black powder revolver lots of fun to shoot. I have been shooting muzzel loaders for a while now but am having primer trouble with revolver at full charge (max grains of powder) caps blow of and jam the mechanism (fall under hammer) have tried reducing charge down to the bare minimun and this has helped but not eliminated problem I am going to try some different primers.at full charge 100% jam at min charge 10% jam. Is this normal? I cant imagine the west was won with such unreliability? I guess maybee holywood may be to blame for my perception of reliable shootn irons. make that first shot count.

mtnman | 05-13-2007 11:43 AM
Re: black powder revolver Quote:
Originally Posted by damoc (Post 604890) here is a question for all you gun enthusiasts I recently purchased a 36 cal black powder revolver lots of fun to shoot. I have been shooting muzzel loaders for a while now but am having primer trouble with revolver at full charge (max grains of powder) caps blow of and jam the mechanism (fall under hammer) have tried reducing charge down to the bare minimun and this has helped but not eliminated problem I am going to try some different primers.at full charge 100% jam at min charge 10% jam. Is this normal? I cant imagine the west was won with such unreliability? I guess maybee holywood may be to blame for my perception of reliable shootn irons. make that first shot count.
Your caps are designed for a rifle. There�s no problem if a cap blows off a rifle. Revolver caps are no longer available so try crimping your caps before putting them on. I shoot a Ruger "Old Army" in .44 cal. I have had the "blown off cap" problem too! I squeeze (crimp) the caps so they fit snugly, It doesn�t fix the problem completely but it helps a lot. In the old west they also carried a large knife for times when revolvers wouldn�t work!

damoc | 05-13-2007 01:10 PM
Re: black powder revolver thanks mtnman

damoc | 01-29-2008 09:02 PM
Re: black powder revolver Another black powder revolver question have now purchased a rugar old army 1858 replica pistol from cabelas and have been very happy with this gun Im no longer haveing problems with cap jam (well very rarely) and its very accurate even out to 75 to 100 yards the draw back with this gun is that the revolver pin jams badly (due to fouling) after only 12 shots and accuracy suffers also. another small problem with this revolver is that after less than 300 shots I believe it is ready for another hammer assembly or at least some smithing. This is something that im happy to deal with shooting black powder but have been reading on the cabelas web site reviews about people buying 45 LC conversion kits for these guns and was wondering if anybody knew where i could purchase such. This gun was manufactured by pietta of itally i have tried the pietta website but no luck.cabellas does not list anything but extra cap and ball revolver chambers.

____hoot____ | 01-30-2008 11:31 AM
Re: black powder revolver damoc, try your questions at THR.com; I'm sure you can find some help there as they are probally 20 times bigger than GIM and are all gun nuts

markt | 01-30-2008 06:16 PM
Re: black powder revolver www.midwayusa.com sells all of the conversion cylinders available. Try this link: http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpag...104&t=11082005

damoc | 01-30-2008 06:22 PM
Re: black powder revolver Quote:
Originally Posted by markt (Post 944582) www.midwayusa.com sells all of the conversion cylinders available. Try this link: http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpag...104&t=11082005
Thanks that is exactly what i was looking for looks like they have other stuff i would be interested in.

bsdetector | 01-30-2008 08:16 PM
Re: black powder revolver The Ruger Old Army is the bomb ! 457 round balls at 900 fps, 30 grains of FFFg.

GoldMaster | 03-07-2008 11:57 PM
Re: black powder revolver I have been looking at getting this, Any advice ? http://www.naaminis.com/naac&b.html

damoc | 03-08-2008 10:07 AM
Re: black powder revolver cabellas has them and they have had good reviews

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