BP loads for 56-50 CF...

[Dakota Widowmaker]

I found that with bullets cast from the Lee modified mould, I can put 45gr of FFFg in the starline 56-50 cases really easily if I used my drop tube. (40" 1/4" copper tube with a Lee red plastic funnel at the top)

If I don't use a drop tube, I only get about 40 gr or so of uncompressed open air powder. (FFFg)

GOEX tends to compress slightly less (or requires more pressure) than does Pyrodex "P".

I backed off the 777 to 40gr...that stuff is really not your friend under LOTS of compression. (just "kiss" is what I have been doing)

9.2gr of Trailboss is about where I would be shooting these bullets. (which is about 20% more powder than what you can load a 45lc up with...for CAS..for a cartridge case that is about 40% more and bullet that is 1/4 more)

Is there a running list of loads and bullets that folks have come up with?

[I hope to chronograph my loads as soon as my @$#&! carbine arrives...hopefully, next weekend]

[Tuolumne Lawman]

Howdy Pard,

Let me know when you chronograph the loads with 40 grains of Triple 7.  Thats what I use with a Buffalo arms .512/350 bullet.  I am dying to know how fast they are.  I'd love to try one an a deer or Black Russian Boar!  350 grains at 1250-1300 fps!  Ouch!

I liked 42 grains of Goex; it was the most accurate at 25-30 yards (about one inch) from a casual rest.  Problem is Goex is hard to get in the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia, and expensive here too!

[Dakota Widowmaker]

Sorry about you living in the PROK...

which begs the quesiton, is the 56-50 legal for hunting deer in Kali? Is the regulations there like in Colorado? (500ft-lbs at 50yds or 1000ft-lbs at 100yds)

In Minnesota, we go by cartridge length and bullet diameter. (must be .243" or larger and 1.285" or longer...so, no 56-50 in MN for deer hunting)

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