Advice on loading my ROA

[Adept]

Hiya

I have finally managed to get this new fangled search facility working !!

Heres links to a couple of threads on wads

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ighlight=ruger

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ighlight=ruger

Regarding ball - cast are cheaper than swaged - but I can't bring myself to pay shop prices even then - think Andy charges £7 or £7.50/100 for his cast ball & the last Hornady swaged I saw were about £11 Edit: - just seen the Hornady ball on MidwayUK .....£14.47/100 [ eeeeeeeeeeek !]

I am casting my own soft lead ball in .457 & also making my own wads - my Dad is using filler - it's all down to preference

I use wads to bring the ball flush & put a tiny squirt of grease on two cylinders to keep any fouling soft when I am shooting BP
With Nitro - I Alox the ball/bullet whatever I am playing with & shoot on

Roy
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Use plenty of grease over the balls it does no really matter what type as long as thick enugh to not spray all over the place (to much) a chain fire is not good only seen one and that was one to many, very noisy and very messy for those concerned !! I have even used LHM at a pinch

[harricook]

Use plenty of grease over the balls it does no really matter what type as long as thick enugh to not spray all over the place (to much) a chain fire is not good only seen one and that was one to many, very noisy and very messy for those concerned !! I have even used LHM at a pinch

Grease is not for chain fires ...... it's to keep the BP fouling soft

Get your balls the right size & you will not have a chainfire.

I HAVE had a chainfire ( 3 cylinders !!) on a Colt revolver many years ago & this was due to being sold undersized balls in too hard a lead (by a reputable dealer at one of the Bisley shows)

I fired that Colt many times after getting the correct balls in soft lead & had no problems

Roy
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