38 Long Colt

[AntiqueSledMan]

Hey Guys,

Mike Beliveau has a new video out on reloading the 38 Long Colt.
He does it both with Hollow Base & Heeled Base.
Lots of good information & done in a straight forward method.



AntiqueSledMan.

[Sooty Barrels]

That's a good video, mike always has interesting videos

[Zulch]

ASM Thank you Sir. Fantastic video.    This guy is very easy to watch and keeps my attention. Very intuitive video. I've never reloaded cartridges. This makes me want to experiment and where I was once thinking re-loading could be a real pain, that is no longer the case. I thought it interesting that he reloads with 3F versus smokeless. I would like to look at more of this guys videos.  Thanks

[G Dog]

+1

Another good vid from Belliveau.  Thanks, SledMan.

[Captainkirk]

Here to help if you want to dive in, Tim...

[Navy Six]

Using the Old West Bullet Molds crimp die on the heel bullets couldn't be easier. I finally went to that after casting my own hollow base bullets(worked real good but slow to cast a single cavity). Then I tried the commercially available Hornady and Speer hollow base bullets. They are coated with some type of waxy substance that combined with the blackpowder fouling made the absolute WORST mess I ever saw. After 50 rounds the bullets started to keyhole and later when trying to clean the barrel I got the cleaning rod stuck in it. This happened on several occasions even after trying to clean that waxy substance off the bullets before loading them.
So now I usually just load the heel base bullets in my Uberti/Kirst 51 Navies without issue.

[Hawg]

The commercial bullets were probably lubed with smokeless lube.

[Navy Six]

Well, so much for a single cavity hollow base mold being too slow to cast. I just ordered a four cavity hollow base wadcutter mold from MP Molds. I have to cast outdoors so I will have to wait a bit to try it out. My experience with a hollow base bullet(Rapine Molds) in a Uberti 51 NavyKirst with unlined barrel was very good. That bullet had a small rounded nose so I'm hoping the wadcutter profile will shoot as good with my black powder loads. Should be OK at Cowboy Match distances.