Hello the camp
OK now I am not as puzzled as before. I doubted that Uberti would have a different chamber diameter for the Dragoon as opposed to all the other .44 caliber guns they make. With the originals perhaps that is true, but for the replicas that is not likely.
I took the cylinder from my 3.5 rd. model Dragoon (custom cut fluted cylinder) Uberti date stamped CM and gently, with the rammer, pushed a .451 ball into a chamber, then pulled it out and did the same thing in the same chamber with a .454 ball both cast with pure lead in Lee molds. i did not have any .457 balls to test...sorry about that.
Both balls showed a nice belt around ther circumference. The .454 was a bit bigger but not outstandingly so. Both would make a tight seal of the chamber.
The chambers on all my guns have a very worthwhile modification for ease of loading. Every cylinder on every gun .44 or .36 have had the sharp edge of each chamber cut with a reamer at a steep angle just a tiny bit. That way when loading the ball is swaged into the chamber and is not damaged by shaving off that little ring of lead.
A suggestion I found on the “GeoJohn” web site so copy and paste you know the drill.
http://www.geojohn.org/BlackPowder/bps1.htmlEight pages especially for the beginner but worthwhile for any practitioner of the Dark Art.
At least that is my personal observation so please feel free to disagree, taunt, bully, or otherwise be obnoxious.
Yr’ Obt’ Svt’
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