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JerryW Participating Member Offline Posts: 46 Location: Jackson, CA Joined: Jun 4^th, 2006	Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Dec 16^th, 2006 at 1:15pm	Print Post
	Need input on twist, bullet weight. etc. Thanks all. Jerry Willis


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Quarter_Bore Oldtimer Offline Posts: 817 Location: Joined: Dec 16^th, 2005	Re: Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 3:18pm	Print Post
	Back in the day the opinion was that .25-21 was the most accurate .25 caliber cartridge. I don't suppose anything has changed since then.


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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2279 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 6:00pm	Print Post
	Some of my friends have had good luck with 25 Hornet, others prefer 25-20 single shot and still others like the 25-20 WCF. Some of the best shooting 25s I've seen use a 1 in 10" twist, although both Ron Smith and Barry Darr both recommend a 1 in 12" twist, Borton & Darr make an excellent 25 spitzer mold, so you might ask them. Hmmm? Bob


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Quarter_Bore Oldtimer Offline Posts: 817 Location: Joined: Dec 16^th, 2005	Re: Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Reply #3 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 6:15pm	Print Post
	a bullet weight of 102 grains with a fairly small metplat has been giving the best accuracy in 12 inch twist barrels for us smokeless powder shooters.


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Brent Ex Member	Re: Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Reply #4 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 6:26pm	Print Post
	I shot a 14" twist (or was it 15") highwall in .25-20 SS. I found that it could not use a heavier(longer) bullet than about 85 gr w/o tipping. For my money, a .25-20 should be shooting 90-120 gr bullets to be competitive out to 200 yds. And you really can't get that to work with bp due to too little case capacity. Now, having said that, I am sure others will differ, but that's just my experience. One of these days I'll find a large shank low wall action and put that barrel back on. Brent


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Quarter_Bore Oldtimer Offline Posts: 817 Location: Joined: Dec 16^th, 2005	Re: Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Reply #5 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 8:42pm	Print Post
	Come to think of it when they intended to shoot the 100 grain bullet in .25's they genearaly thought of the .25-25, but with the way that modern blackpowder shooters seem to like lots of bullet weight per powder charge maybe the .25-21 would work best with the 100 grain bullet after all. I guess if you got a rifle chambered to .25-21 and it was not enough powder you could always rechamber to the .25-25. At some point I would think that powder fouling would get unexceptable with a big charge of powder in such a small caliber.


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hst Oldtimer Offline Posts: 569 Joined: Jun 3^rd, 2004	Re: Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Reply #6 - Dec 17^th, 2006 at 12:50am	Print Post
	FWIW, Ned Roberts wrote that he considered the .25-21 to be superior to either the .25-25 or the .25-20 SS. Glenn


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QuestionableMaynard8130 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4144 Location: Benton Harbor MI Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: Best 25 caliber case for blackpowder? Reply #7 - Dec 17^th, 2006 at 12:09pm	Print Post
	anybody ever try the 25-35 w/ BP? or is the bottleneck case just too much hassle with BP?

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