Armscor Muzzle Loading Revolver

[dannywayoflife]

You lucky sod! I'm still stuck on the waiting list! ;(

[Fenrir.2]

It is cracking fun.

[dannywayoflife]

I can't wait to get my mitts on mine!!

[Fenrir.2]

I picked up some herco today, all i need now are some 148 gr wadcutters. Nobody near me seems to stock them.

[dannywayoflife]

Can't Alan supply the wadcutters? I'm thinking about casting my own In the future

[tim56]

Alan sells a wad cutter bullet for this revolver. I bought three boxs of them when i got the gun and i have also cast some 158grn truncated cone bullets from pure lead
which shoot well. Sized and lightly tumble lubed they are easy to load and seem to shoot as well as the wad cutter. Only difference is you dont get the nice round hole
that you get with the wad cutter. Tim.

[dannywayoflife]

Thats interesting to know. Is casting your won bullets a laborious task?

[tim56]

Nope, piece of cake. All you need is a melting pot, £45 ish. A ladle,£5 ish. A mold, £20 for a lee one and a supply of lead.
Lube generally comes with the mold and a sizing die is about £15. Very easy to do, once you've done it once you will be
chuffed to bits with firing your own ammo and within a year its payed for itself. Tim

[dannywayoflife]

What kit would you recommend for a beginner? Pm me if you want.
Cheers mate

Danny

[Buckle]

Don' PM it - put it on the thread 'cos I want to know too!!

[xx.Morph.xx]

I'm using a blowtorch & camping stove to melt scrap lead in an old stainless balti dish (flux with candle wax or sawdust) then pour into a Lee ingot mould.
The only kit I bought for making the ingots was the mould (about £11 as I had the rest knocking about round the house) but you could just use a brick to make ingots either pouring in the frog indent or into the round holes of other types.
You don't have to make ingots & can just cast from your fluxed pot but I think it makes it easer in the long run to store & you know it's already fluxed
I bought a Lee Production pot & 1oz slug mould from Kranks & have the 2 cavity .357 wadcutter mould on order but you can do away with the Production pot & just use a stainless ladle with a pouring lip or the Lee lead ladle for about £5.
You would be surprised at what you can find to use in the average home

[pnuk]

Shame is with these these at the moment as I understand it is the last batch of cylinders were delivered to Alan incorrectly machined. Due to the time spent in fixing this issue the price of them has increased by £100. TBH this has put me off as surely any manufacturing defect is an issue between Westlake Engineering and the contracted supplier rather than a cost to be passed on to the punter?

[dannywayoflife]

I'd rather have a more expensive revolver than no revolver at all!

[tim56]

Alan has had to manufacture new cylinders, saw one last week when i was at my local RFD who got mine for me from Alan.
Had a slight problem with mine but Alan fixed it and it was returned within a week. Im delighted with mine now, fired 48 shots
on saturday and even managed to hit the black a few times.
As iv said before, this to me is as close as you can get to a pre ban revolver and even though the price has gone up they are
rare enough that you could always sell it without a huge if any loss. If you want one, have one. You're only here once.! Tim

[Nocrimp]

Hi.

just picked up a new Alfa .357 MLR from Alan Westlake at the Shooting Show... :-)

Herco powder doesn't seem to be available and Alan suggested Blue Dot which seems slow for a cylinder gun / 148gn bullet....

I also have some Unique powder that is hotter than Herco (but not by much) and also has large flakes so won't fall thru primer hole.

Has anypone tried Unique and if so, can you suggest a load please?

Any general advice on using / loading for my MLR would be appreciated.

Many thanks