The thors are great bullets. You only want them to lightly engage the rifling. Anymore, and you'll have a terrible time loading. Copper is soft, but not as soft and forgiving as lead.
As we all know, I am a big fan of CVA guns since a young age. I had a customer come to me and ask me to get him set up for a solid 200 yard rig for NM elk. Well I picked out the paramount, but he was later talked into buying the CVA Accura MR-X .45cal.. Ok cool! not a big deal.
Boy was I wrong...
ok rws caps are great.
If you are cleaning between shots, you could just be soaking the breech plug and that area just isnt drying when you dry swab the bore/fire a cap. One thing you can try is pushing a dry patch down the bore, ramrod and all, Fire a cap and see how that patch looks. If its...
Yes real black sets off at 325ish degrees VS 800 for the pyrodex/T7. Not everyone shoots subs. Black powder requires an explosives license and special storage, which makes finding it in stores, difficult.
But, its truly easier to ignite.
Seeing how its a musket cap set up and T7... Any chance...
When I pull out the real, worlds most powerful handgun, that could blow your head clean off..... :chuckle:
My newly re-barreled CVA Mountain Pistol with a .54cal 28" barrel.
Testing some of that old Lube 103 patch lube. I let the bag sit in the sun for an hour to melt the lube since its almost as old as me. Now the .015" patches are a little on the thin side for my bore. I normally run .020" patches. The first clean patch I recovered had just the slightest hole on...