Bad day at the shop

[Mark@Sea]

Went to the gunshop today to pick up the Springfield Trapdoor. The store had mis-marked this consignment gun. It was supposed to be priced at 950 rather than 650.
Nothing they could do for me, as it was a consignment piece. That higher price took it out of the range of good-to-reasonable to 'a good deal too much'.
Oh well.... Another one will turn up, or not.

Mike to answer a question in another thread - Pietta made the pistols. I will mike the barrel to find out what size I need, but I am already planning to cast my own balls.
Hmmm. Maybe there is a better way to phrase that.

Anyway, met the guy who evaluated the trapdoor for me. Went over to his house, he has a Shiloh Sharps (very nice). What Sue really likes, though, is his Lemat revolver.
Huh. Color me surprised.
Well, he casts his own bullets, and I am picking up a few pointers from him.

[Mike.357]

I am not sure about miking the barrel.

Someone explained it to me once in reference to a conversion cylinder for my Remmington. It was suggest I slug the barrel. But then another guy jumped in and pointed out the odd number of lands and grooves making it difficult to slug the barrel to determine size of the bore.

The revolvers should come with a guide booklet that recommends a ball size. for .44 it will either be .451 or .454. For .36 it works out usually to .375. At any rate as long as there is a ring of lead sheered off when ramming the ball into the cylinder I believe it is good to go. Of course the main decider is if the ball goes on target.
All of my .44's will sheer lead with either size ball, but they all shoot better with .454's.

That stinks about the trapdoor.