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What sort of accuracy are you guys getting with your .45-70 Scouts? OR I guess any caliber Scout?

I am considering getting one.

Thanks,
Longbow

I wonder what would happen if you loaded some birdshot loads with just plastic gas seals and card wads then shot them. That might scrub out some of that gunk. I guess if a copper chore boy isn't...

Those wad petals look as though they squeezed the balls enough to extrude a bit. Are they that thick?

They do look good.

How was accuracy?

Did shooting take any of that fouling out of the...

Well, that is one fouled bore for sure!

Speculation on my part but it looks like melted plastic in the pic. Could be the result of what JDHasty posted.

I had a single shot smnoothbore I was...

There ya go! Fill that baby up with acetone for a while then see what happens. If there is plastic there it should soften and come off with a bronze brush or copper Chore Boy... just make sure you...

Have you tried just using the acetone/ATF and leaving a good coating in the bore then let it sit for a few hours then bronze brush? If there is plastic that should get it to lift then it should brush...

You are using a filler under the balls right?

With the small 0.600" balls you may need a wrap or sleeve around them if they are loose in the wad. Partly to keep them in line but also to keep them...

Barry:

I had sort of forgotten about this thread... not that I had tried two ball loads and the wads weren't great but Siarm not contacting me. They have some interesting ball carriers for two and...

I thought much the same about Tri-Ball. I am sure it would be a good load for a charging grizzley, tyrannosaurus or similar but a bit excessive for most things. A two ball 2 3/4" load seems more...

That is looking pretty good! A nice simple load too.

In past shooting I found that with good loads it seemed that 3" to 4" groups out to 50 yards or so was not too hard to achieve. Beyond 50 yards...

As far as I know Puff-Lon is much different than Dacron. Dacron is mostly air and used simply to hold powder near the primer for reduced loads. Puff-Lon is a fairly dense fiber filler (much denser...

Seems to me to be the same idea as a collar button for .45-70 which works just fine as a gallery/small game/plinking load. The collar button (Lyman 457130 is a 150 gr. bullet) originally intended for...

I thought I might have load data for the IXL-DGS slug but do not! I have the original drawing for the prototype IXL-DGS slug that James sent to me but no load data I can find. I do have load data for...

I have an old Lyman 0.690" ball mould I bought used in the 1970's so not sure of its age. It casts about 0.691" with ACWW. All my "12 ga." RB moulds 0.662", 0.678", 0.690", 0.715" and 0.735" all cast...

Now that is something I had not even thought of until you mentioned it! I have an 1881 W&C Scott & Son 10 ga. damascus barreled gun that isn't in very good shape but I will get it back into shooting...

Something that may change load data availability:

https://saami.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/12-Ga-1-75-Inch-Public-Introduction-Approved-.pdf

I expect to see the powder manufacturer's...

There is also free Lee slug load data here:

https://www.ballisticproducts.com/load14_04_25.htm

Longbow

There is a lot of info here:

https://1895gunner.com/loaddata/table%2045-70.html

Stick with Trapdoor data and the loads will be light. He lists boolit weights down to 250 gr. Oddly he doesn't...

Interesting results! Thanks for researching and posting. I think I'll give that a try.

Longbow

I spent most of my adult working life in and around the Cominco Lead/Zinc smelter in tTrail, B.C. Canada. I was surrounded by thousands of tons of lead but couldn't even buy any! Before lead was...

I am surprised it isn't mentioned here so I will... the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook third edition lists cast boolit loads for the Lyman 45 gr. 225438 and the Lyman 50 gr. 225415 with 13 powder choices...

If you are reloading and using cast boolits you will likely need "fat" boolits! I have two No.5's and my son has one. I also have a No.4 MK1 and No. MK2. Four have typically fat bores and chambers....

Hahahaha! That describes me on virtually all of my projects!

I used ACWW 0.735" RB's with no lube in both smoothbore and rifled gun with no problems. I shot the most through my smoothbore but I put 15 rounds through a friend's rifled 870 with no leading.

I...

Yes, RB's are easy to cast, easy to load and are fun to shoot. They may not be the most efficient projectiles but when shotgun size they pretty potent! I like round balls!

If you want to slug your...