An Unholy STINK Settled Upon The Pistol Range Today...

Never heard of the canola oil trick.

I've read somewhere about putting extra lube in front of the chambers when shooting BP cartridge pistol. Anyone use that practice?

I'd like to shoot black in my 45Colt but the one time I tried I had so much blow back due to those thick cases not sealing that it was an awful mess...
 
Mark-II said:
Never heard of the canola oil trick.

I've read somewhere about putting extra lube in front of the chambers when shooting BP cartridge pistol. Anyone use that practice?

I'd like to shoot black in my 45Colt but the one time I tried I had so much blow back due to those thick cases not sealing that it was an awful mess...
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I can't imagine why. Unless the persons that were doing that did not steam or bake out the smokeless lube and replace it with BP friendly lube. Then it may have been a case of "belt and suspenders" lubricating since "most" of the petroleum waxes used for smokeless will not lube the bore correctly and a crusty buildup can form.

And yes, the chambers in .45Colt are typically cut quite generously over the size of the casings when loaded. This leads to a lot of blowby. And the stains formed are far worse from black powder than most of the smokeless rounds. The good news is that with the generous sized chambers the black powder fouling won't make the cases stick.... :D
 
BCRider said:
So that was one of the young ones then if it was one of the old original companies.
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When I shot it. I was still a teenager. I couldn't tell you much about it other than, everything went down the business end, and it used a hammer. I don't recal if it was flint or a cap. I know diddly squat about BP. Lol
 
And here is why I love the stuff so much.

First shot, shooting the cap and ball Uberti Remington.

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Second shot, and this is the show that you get. To be fair I'm thinking that some of that smoke cloud is from my rifle shots which have to be black powder loads as well to stay in class. So let's say that half of what you're seeing is from the handguns.

And yes, this was a particularly calm and "heavy" sort of day. So the smoke really lingered. This picture sure is impressive all the same. I had to do a HEAP of bobbing and weaving to look around the smoke and see the targets.

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A .45 Colt will produce all of this and more. A .44Mag shooting case fulls of black will be darn close.
 
It's sort of getting further off track for a post in the Pistols and Revolvers forum but I just want to add that anyone that thinks they don't flinch at all should try two shots from a flint lock rifle at some point. The first one will be just fine. But it'll take someone with serious fortitude to not flinch or blink on the SECOND shot when they know what's coming with the pull of the trigger.... :d

And back to handguns. Yes, you folks should have a go at it. It doesn't have to be proper black powder for cartridge loading either. Pyrodex P does just fine and is fully compatible with the primers and regular bullet lube. Same rule for loading applies..... NO AIR GAPS ! ! ! ! Fill the case such that when you seat the bullet that it puts something like 2 to 3 mm's of compression onto the powder. Or for .38Spl maybe more like 1.5 to 2mm's of compression. This works for any of the traditional revolver cartridges and it's impossible to hurt the guns with this amount of powder.
 
Here are videos of me shooting a CAS match with black powder. It was my first time shooting 45 Colt with black and 12 gauge with black.

First stage

Second stage

As you can see, an Unholy STINK Settled Upon The Pistol Range That day ;)

And some pictures of my cowboy collection
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I can't share target cause I mainly shoot on steel, but I think I would not have target as good as yours. Probably all on paper, but without nice groups. But this gave me the urge to try and see how I would do.
 
Love shooting the cap n ball, although I don't as often as I should. I use homemade lard cut with a touch of canola oil (more so for cool fall weather) for lubing and covering the chambers. I even give a light coating rubbed in all around the gun where you get fouling. The fouling sticks to this, a wipes right out while shooting, so you don't bind up as quick.

Make sure you have a junk rag/ t-shirt for wiping the gun down, that you can throw out before going home.
 
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