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Anonymous04/13/26, 02:15No.65072686Black Powder Thread
Good evening gents I hope you all had a wonderful Sunday. Are you a black powder enjoyer? If so, what's your favorite smoke puffer? If not, why?
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Anon04/13/26, 03:51No.65072912
I like black powder, I'm a frog and it's not considered a firearm here so it's easy to buy and fun. However my neighbours got me arrested cause they were scared of the sound lmao. Anyway the cops were cool as fuck I just told me to go do it in the forest instead of my garden otherwise they'll have to fine me with "diurnal nuisance". Fucking neighbours
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Anon04/13/26, 16:30No.65073997
How do I get a black powder webbing/belt/bandolier high speed leather setup that would go well with old fashioned lolita coords?
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Anon04/13/26, 23:46No.65075270
bought a vastly overpriced pedersoli charlevillebut it sure is fun
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Anon04/14/26, 00:23No.65075361
i dont expect any actual help cause people here dont shoot but i gotta ask. anyone else have issues with screws loosening up. this screw specifically. went to the range shot 30 times by the end of it its halfway out. go home tighten it seems fine. notice after just playing around cocking it roughly 100 times its loose again.
i dunno if this is a loctite situation or something else.
im tightening it reasonably tight but not super tight cause i feel like if i go all out it will damage the screwhead.
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Anon04/14/26, 00:55No.65075474
Is this the convicted felon general?
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Anon04/14/26, 06:21No.65076261
What's the best substitute in .54 for a Hornady Great Plains? Hands-down the most accurate conical I've ever shot but they stopped making them almost a decade ago and my supply is basically tapped out. Seems like pretty much all of the .54 bullets that are available off the shelf are solid-base and moulds for .54 bullets are a pain in the ass to find.
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Anon04/14/26, 12:03No.65076556
Do you find percussion caps to purchase? Every store in my area is out. I emailed some asking if they could order me but they all say they cant get any.
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Anon04/15/26, 00:33No.65077391
Does anyone have experience with these DIY musket kits like in picrel? I'm considering buying one. My other consideration is an in-line rifle.
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Anon04/15/26, 00:46No.65077407
Got out and shot my brown bess. Not bad for an india made musket. At 75 yard my shot was 1 inch below the bullseye with 100grains.
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Anon04/15/26, 01:01No.65077423
I just received as a gift a slightly rusty, very dusty cap and ball revolver which I believe to be a Pietta 1851 Army repro. It is a .44 cal. It came with no accessories or manual and I have no clue what I’m doing, can anyone recommend a good source of information and supplies for how to properly clean, shoot, and maintain it?
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Anon04/15/26, 05:26No.65077680
I was surprised at the loudness the first time I fired my slintlock pistol. I always imagined it would be quieter than a modern gun
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Anon04/15/26, 05:34No.65077686
I was surprised at the loudness the first time I fired my slintlock pistol. I always imagined it would be quieter than a modern gun
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Anon04/15/26, 16:40No.65078444
TC White Mountain carbine .50 used do I cop?
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Anon04/15/26, 17:09No.65078493
I received an original Springfield Trapdoor carbine from my grandfather. The story is that his own grandfather got it from an Indian when they were living in Oklahoma, whose own father/grandfather/whatever passed it down to him after taking it off a dead cavalryman in battle. Serial number and condition makes it possible, so that's what I'm sticking with. It was not well cared for by the godless red savages, so it has some pitting in the chamber that warps brass on anything but the lowest end of trapdoor loads. Still recoverable brass, but I wouldn't use them for a different rifle after that. Otherwise, it has very mild pitting in the middle of the barrel that doesn't seem to affect anything. After some experiments, I've sadly concluded that although I can consistently ping 3 inch targets at 100 yards with smokeless rounds, it handles black powder cartridges so poorly that I struggle to even hit a full-sized silhouette at just 50 yards. I tried it with Swiss BP, the same container I've been using to run comparisons with my homemade powder, so I know it's good. It seems any amount of the stuff produces an extreme drop in accuracy, to the point that even smokeless won't shoot right until after I thoroughly clean the fouling out and put put a few smokeless through it again. I'm blessed with what I have, but it's unexpected and disappointing to not get to run black powder through it. The crack of smokeless doesn't live up to the boom of BP for me anymore.
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Anon04/15/26, 23:00No.65079051
>no belt
I see a nigger powder revolver was the only thing you could get, wigger
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Anon04/16/26, 02:17No.65079263
I'm going completely off of 15 year old memory here... Is Uberti still considered good for black powder repo revolvers on a budget?
I thought I remembered something about the cylinder augers on certain models not being long enough, and soft steel.
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Anon04/17/26, 01:37No.65081981
>"Muzzleloader season"
>Inlines allowed, 209 primers allowed, scopes allowed, substitutes and pellets allowed, sabots allowed, etc.
>Can't hunt with a BP cartridge rifle made in the 1870s
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Anon04/17/26, 22:10No.65084358
Also I kinda want the Pedersoli Baker Cavalry Shotgun (20ga 11” barrel) to grouse/squirrel hunt with. I wonder if you could get it cut for chokes.
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Anon04/18/26, 01:51No.65084855
could I put a 1858 Carbine trigger guard on a regular 1858 (winter trigger guard)
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Anon04/18/26, 14:10No.65085905
My great-grandfather's Colt Navy, mfg. 1873. He owned a store and it was kept under the counter. Still shoots great.
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Anon04/19/26, 15:49No.65088793
I also have a Ruger Old Army and a TC "black mountain magnum" that I've never shot due to not being able to find any documentation of how to disassemble it. Does anyone know anything about them? Any comparable guns that have the same take down process?
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Anon04/19/26, 17:42No.65089048
Engraved reproductions, cool or lame?
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Anon04/19/26, 17:44No.65089054
Do any of you work with modern muzzleloaders like the CVA optima? I do and it feels like I need to bring needlenose pliers and lube up the hole between every shot to take primers out consistently
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Anon04/19/26, 19:26No.65089276
Is it better to get a Pedersoli Sharps over a Pietta Smith? It costs almost twice as much, but I've heard Pietta Smiths have had barrel problems in the past. Reviews have looked much better when it comes to accuracy, though.
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Anon04/21/26, 12:58No.65094571
how dangerous is to keep black powder around your house if you aren't a retard? I really want a 1851 because they are the easiest type of gun to get in my Euro country but I'm worried about blowing up my house.
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Anon04/21/26, 18:45No.65095226
I've heard the Uberti's shrunken the size of the chambers on their Walkers and Dragoons so that they can only take 35-45 grains of powder. Does anyone here have any experience with that? It seems like a waste to get a Walker or Dragoon if it's just going to have the performance of an Army model.
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Anon04/21/26, 19:10No.65095269
what's the deal with black powder firearms? what if I 3D printed a black powder semiautomatic using AI to design is that possible? why can't technology bypass all laws almost? why or why not? I feel like I should be able to figure out how to make a black powder AK fully legally and tell everyone to fuck themselves with their silly laws
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Anon04/21/26, 21:18No.65095541
Aw shit, it's just that Uberti Walkers are more Dragoon's reverse engineered into Walkers a proper Walker.
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Anon04/22/26, 05:34No.65096486
Don't Walkers tend to blow up in your hand, like the story Little Bill told in Unforgiven?
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Anon04/22/26, 20:53No.65098137
firs time shooting my uberti colt today. Caps seemed to have about 50-50% chance of going off and one that went off didnt set the powder off. RWS caps do fit on the nipples and stay on them. What can I try? Should I use filler material if load is only 15 grains?
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Anon04/22/26, 23:55No.65098475
anybody built a gun from a board lol? found this vaguely gun shaped object at an antique store and i had to buy it. 64" by 2 3/8" wide, 6 inch tall butt. ive never done any inletting before either, save for a couple buttplates if that counts
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Anon04/26/26, 20:06No.65109097
Good day gents, was trying out half and halfing my powder charge with corn meal today. Worked well until the 6th shot failed to fire (my dumbass grabbed the wrong flask first) and I got to experience pulling a bullet with the tools I had to hand. I believe I may have found the origin of the term "screwball"
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Anon04/27/26, 22:38No.65112420
Paper cartridges or extra cylinders?
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Anon04/29/26, 19:33No.65117351
Damnit, all the Starrs are sold out
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Anon04/30/26, 12:48No.65118965
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Anon05/01/26, 07:37No.65121066
How much powder did the Beaumont–Adams double action revolver take in a chamber? About as much as a Colt Navy?
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Anon05/03/26, 16:41No.65126961
Black powder n00b here:
Can anyone here enlighten me as to the relationship between bore size and Minié ball diameter?
I recently impulse bought a huge old Swedish horse pistol (pic rel) and I need to get a bullet mold for it, but it's a non-standard size.
The bore is rifled with a diameter between the lands of 14.7mm (.57") and a diameter between the groves of 15.6mm (.61").
In the documentation I've been able to find, these are listed as 14.85mm (.58") caliber pistols.
I've been able to find info about the original bullet weight, 23.1g (356gr), but info about the bullet diameter is all over the place and I can't find any reliable numbers.How snug are Minié balls supposed to fit down the barrel? Are the usually a bit oversized, or should they be more or less the same diameter as the bore is between the lands?
Should they be slightly undersized to aid in loading down fouled bores?These pistols originally fired solid-base bullets and had a pointed column at the base of the chamber into which the bullet was rammed home hard as fuck to flare the base of the bullet out against the rifling.
This system didn't work very well, so a previous owner removed the column in the chamber from my pistol. I'm guess plain round balls and Minié ball are the way to go now.I also couldn't find any data about the original powder load, but from what I've been able to read about similar rifled .58ish caliber pistols, a 35-45gr load seems pretty standard.
Am I in the right ballpark here, or will it blow up my antique pistol and send me to the hospital?
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Anon05/06/26, 06:51No.65133501
More Starr revolvers are in stock, are they worth it? It looks like Slixshot makes nipples for them, so that should improve some reliability.
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Anon05/12/26, 08:16No.65149116
Hi, can anyone recommend any good books on black powder weapons? Either from the American Civil War or in Europe? I would like to know their history and evolution,
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Anon05/14/26, 21:04No.65155811
Looking for books on belgian black powder copies if anyone knows one?
They were pretty prolific afaik so should be books about it around.
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Anon05/15/26, 12:49No.65157187
ay yo a gun came out of yo ass