A newbie shooter is born from the ashes and smoke

ironsite

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Hey guys.
Just thought I would drop a line in the black powder forum today as I fired my first black powder rifle this afternoon.
When my wife's grandpa passed away in December I was given three of his old rifles, one of which was a 1856 Enfield model 1853 what was converted to Snider .577 around 1886. The poor thing had been hanging on his wall for decades. There was some bands missing and it was dirty as sin. Well with the help of some great, generous and knowledgeable black powder shooters I fired it today. I built a "controlled fire" platform and test fired it, all went well and I was firing off the hip (so to speak) after that. What a great day.
I know this is a old subject......577 ammo......the rounds that I have were from gun shows at $5.00 a shoot. I watched a utube video on loading 24gauge red shotgun shells with a .60cal ball and bee's wax/lambs lard. I can't find any 24gauge shells anywhere. Do any of you do this? and where do you get your shells.
Thanks
 
Congrtulations. BP can be lots of fun. There are lots of information and BP web sites out there. Check Lyman for BP books and loads.

Good luck and have fun with it.
 
check with Mystic Precision; he is a CGN sponsor and also may be able to get some for you (he has sold them in the past) He is also excellent to deal with

cheers mooncoon
 
Will Bilozir can be contacted at bilozir dot net, his website. He goes to most of the gun shows in the West, stocks 24-bore casings in plastic and in Brass.

He also sells hand-made Italian, Spanish and Turkish shotguns which are FAR out of my price range!
 
I contacted Mystic and this was the reply "appreciate the enquiry but no longer dealing in Shotgun reloading stuff"

mooncoon said:
check with Mystic Precision; he is a CGN sponsor and also may be able to get some for you (he has sold them in the past) He is also excellent to deal with

cheers mooncoon
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