I've used around 9 grs. of Reloader 7 with a 118 gr. MOS bullet with good results. Just need to find a way to reclaim all the unburned powder for future use.

oneatatime wrote on Oct 21^st, 2019 at 3:39pm:


I don’t know whether this was the reason, but the only original low wall I’ve ever owned that was stretched noticeably with “normal” shooting(???) was... a 25-20!!

As mentioned earlier, I’m building a 25-20 low wall now (on an un-stretched frame) using the Green Mtn barrel factory profiled for a small lever action.  It will only get mild target loads.  I do have the early Perfection mould marked simply “25-20” which became the 25720 as cherry numbers were standardized.  This past weekend Willis (singleshot) Gregory took home bullets from it (80 gr length) and the 257283 (85 gr) to make me some inserts for my repro Pope lube pump, so I’m getting there!

Froggie

PS  Maybe I ought to have an insert for the longest (90 gr) bullet from the 25-20 Perfection cut as well... I don’t remember (if I ever knew) the twist rate of that GM barrel, and even 5 gr makes a difference in the length of a 25 cal bullet.

oneatatime wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2019 at 12:09pm:


TJ's liner 10 twist and breech seated in a Stevens tip up.
The batch of JBA brass I got wouldn't chamber, had to rework the cases a little. Still better than almost any of the original cases I've come across, Remington, Winchester and UMC  all have a high rate of first shot case failure. And yes they were annealed before firing!

JSB30 wrote on Oct 21^st, 2019 at 5:55pm:


I ordered dies and shell holder from CH & works fine.It is marked 2R

Bob

Green_Frog wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2019 at 11:04am:


The reamer was a rental and had a shallow lead angle, and minimum dimensions. probably meant for the MOS or similar bullet. I don't have sizing dies, don't believe I'll bother them. Most of the case were black powder loads and had some degree of internal corrosion.