Do you know what these are?

[armoredman]

Dadgum things took me an hour to do...

[lewmed]

 They look like paper cartridges for a cap and ball revolver.

[armoredman]

Yep, my very first hand made. 44 caliber ball on cigarette paper atop 25 grains of Goex FFFG. What a pain. I hope they work. Kit came from Guns of the West.

[skin]

 Really neat! I'd hate to have to do 1k rounds though.

[Wobbly]

I thought it was some type of homemade Christmas candy, colored to look like ammo !!

[painter]

Yep, my very first hand made. 44 caliber ball on cigarette paper atop 25 grains of Goex FFFG. What a pain. I hope they work. Kit came from Guns of the West.

Congrats on coming over to the dark side Mr. A.

I've been burning the holy black for a couple of years now. Great fun!

[armoredman]

I was gifted a Pietta 1851 brass frame clone a year ago, and had it worked on. It's nice, but I wanted something stronger,





...so I picked up an Uberti 1860 steel frame, and that is VERY nice. Both guns are, of course, very used. The Uberti code says it was made in 2004.







I found some Olde Eynsford FFFg right before the plant shut down, and even have a bottle of Pyrodex P hidden away, so decent powders can't see it.

It's been raining every weekend for a month, which I can't complain about too loudly, this being the desert we NEED the rain, but it's kinda hard to test paper cartridges in the rain. Maybe next weekend. In the meantime, maybe tonight or tomorrow night I will practice making more, maybe cutting that paper just a WEE but higher to hold the ball better.
Too bad CZ never made a black powder firearm...

[Wobbly]

Seeing that brings back memories of a Ruger stainless steel black powder revolver my brother used to have.

Fun times.