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Statesrights Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 445 Location: Virginia Joined: May 3^rd, 2016	.38-72 loads? Jun 28^th, 2026 at 3:31pm	Print Post
	A friend has a CPA with a .38-72 barrel and is looking for starting loads. Any suggestions?


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18085 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: .38-72 loads? Reply #1 - Jun 28^th, 2026 at 5:53pm	Print Post
	I'd look at loads for .40-65 as they should be very close. Are you wanting smokeless loads, or BP?

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Statesrights Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 445 Location: Virginia Joined: May 3^rd, 2016	Re: .38-72 loads? Reply #2 - Jun 28^th, 2026 at 6:06pm	Print Post
	Smokeless.


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rgchristensen Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1190 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2014	Re: .38-72 loads? Reply #3 - Jun 28^th, 2026 at 6:42pm	Print Post
	My experience with that ctg is that BP works very nice. Give FFG a chance with it. Many who are not experienced with BP are leery of using it. After each shot, give it a pass with a piece of flannel squeezed out (nearly dry) with 10 % soluble oil in water. This leaves the bore perfectly clean and SLIGHTLY damp with the oil. The flannel mops are easily washed for re-use by throwing them into the laundry in small bags. Small ultra-sonic cleaner works great for cleaning the ctgs. CHRIS


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18085 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: .38-72 loads? Reply #4 - Jun 28^th, 2026 at 7:21pm	Print Post
	Statesrights wrote on Jun 28^th, 2026 at 6:06pm: Smokeless. Try 4198 in it with a bullet around 255 grs. I'd use 23.0 grs as that will be lower pressure than BP is. Could go much heavier if the CPA barrel is a faster twist rate.

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Statesrights Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 445 Location: Virginia Joined: May 3^rd, 2016	Re: .38-72 loads? Reply #5 - Jun 29^th, 2026 at 5:36pm	Print Post
	Thank you, gentlemen.


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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1827 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: .38-72 loads? Reply #6 - yesterday at 10:25am	Print Post
	Historically, I first used a load in my 38-72/10 twist Krieger of 22 gr 4759 under the lyman 335 gr and the NEI 187C (375-380. Too hot, leaded up with these plain based bullets, though the primers were still rounded indicating low/reasonable pressures. No problems with leading with BP loads later, using 0.060 LDPE wad under the bullets. I expect to revisit the smokeless loads with the 0.060 LDPE wads under these bullets and also the BACO 3713569E paper patched DDEPP bullets Will start more like 18 gr 4759 and may also try Reloader 7 Little Gun and slower mid burning rate powders such as Varget, 4895. beltfed/arnie


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ssdave Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2139 Location: Eastern Oregon Joined: Apr 16^th, 2004	Re: .38-72 loads? Reply #7 - yesterday at 11:15am	Print Post
	My wife's 38-55 is set up to shoot identical to our 38-72. The load is 22 grains of 4198 with a 360 grain nasa bullet for 1375 fps. She just shot all 6's at Quigley except 2 offhand and 8 on the Buffalo. After the powder, we fill rest of the case with bran as a filler,


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