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Unread 02-12-2017, 09:12 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by wayne goerres View Post
Gentle men I am trying to avoid assembling and disassembling the action on this gun to clean out the Bp fouling. Its a lot harder to do than droping the breach block out of one of my single shots. Thus the request for smokeless loads. Has anyone tried 5744 or 4198 ore even SR4759 in the 1876.
You look at this the same way as myself . I am adamantly against using yuck BP in anything other then an original muzzle loading rifle .

You might give some thought to Trailboss I used that in a circa 1896 Marlin 1895 in 40-82 although velocity was almost below sonic .

Seems to me I used 31.5 grains of SR4759 with a Gould 330 grain HP PB bullet in the 45-70 . But sorry to say I have no data for the 50-95 , only 50-95 I've ever had in hand was an original someone down the street from me wanted to sell .
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