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Picked up a new side arm for the BP season. Haven't had a chance to shoot it yet, but sure am looking forward to it.

Revolver is a Cimarron model P 7.5” in .45 Colt.

Original cartridge top, made in 1887 at Frankford Arsenal, the removed powder charge in the vial at left.

Below is the reproduction, consisting of Star Line .45S&W brass, and a conical from the mold I used the original bullet to have made.

Owner inherited it and is asking 310$ for it

I’m considering maybe buying a 45 long colt cylinder But mostly just want it for black powder

This silly thing is finally made and functional!

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this is a .50 i believe but Im just really worried about the stock damage on this rifle. i really want to buy it, any advice? i would appreciate it

I have tried different nipples and none of them would work as the threads are extremely damaged for the nipple so I turned a custom nipple with locking screw to keep it fully secured in the gun.

I took my Pedersoli Mortimer flintlock to the range for some practice time, and while I had a lot of fun I couldn't consistently hit anything past 75 yds. You really don't know how sloppy your follow-through is until you shoot a flintlock!

90 grains of 2F antique muzzle loading propellant and a 0.015 patch with a .535 round ball -priming with the same powder.

Saw this rifle at a gun show a few years ago and just had to have it. It’s definitely become my favorite rifle. I’ve only shot and reloaded smokeless ammo for it up till recently but all the smokeless loads are so low pressure they all have some kind of problem or leave something to be desired.

The rifle was sold to me with a couple boxes of smokeless and one box of 20 black powder rounds. I kinda shelved the BP rounds because I never seemed to have time to dedicate to cleaning it afterwards the same day and honestly cleaning BP fowling out of a gun with this many parts didn’t sound too fun. But recently I had the opportunity to take my dad with me to the range and i really wanted him to get the chance to shoot this, and I’d actually have time to clean it the same day so I figured it was a good time to give the BP ammo a chance

And boy was it fun. Not only was it super satisfying to shoot but it ran really smoothly and didn’t have the issues I was getting with the smokeless powder loads.

The only downside was the cleaning, I was right about that, taking the gun apart to the smallest pieces of the breech block wasn’t bad, but idk what powder or lube was used for these rounds and it took an absurd amount of swabs and patches to get the bore fully clean.

So you’d think I’d have learned my lesson and just gone back to trying to find the right smokeless load. But no, I couldn’t help but think “I’ve made pyrodex based ammo for another gun that cleaned up easier than this” and now I’ve convinced myself I can make better BP ammo than whatever this stuff was. I’ll likely wind up having to use pyrodex anyway for this since I can’t seem to find any real 2F powder either online or locally. So if anyone’s got a secret hookup on the 2f now’s the time to share lol.

I was going for a heavily used appearance, not the relic look.