loading with 777???

[Curly Duke]

Howdy pards,

am still a little green at this buffalo rifle loading stuff and was wanting to know if any of you load with 777? do you use a drop tube with it and compress it any or not??....Have already learned alot from this forum....you all are a bunch of smart amigos and would appreciate any insites any of you have....hope to get the chance to add more to my profile soon....haven't yet went fully dark in my other smokepoles but who knows if'n I like shooting it out of my 45-70 I may go all the way...

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Howdy!

Caint hep ya with that there 777777 stuff, but what ever ya use, have fun!

[Ed Clintwood]

Curley Duke,
I've loaded 777 in my .40-70 Sharps straight and did not use a drop tube.  I still have to work up a load for that rifle though and as it's a little cold out and the range ... when it gets warmer, I be back out trying to figgure out how to make 777 work.

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[Curly Duke]

yea Ed has been a bit cold here too....have a shoot coming up the first part of march and want to get a load worked up for the side match there....I have used Trailboss and had good results with it but felt like I was shootn' a .22...very low recoil....which is not always a bad thing....    think I will try some 777 and get some Goex and see what I can work up. Am trying some of cabela's cast bullets till I can convince my shooting partner....(wife).... that it will be cheaper to cast my own!!!

[Grapeshot]

I've been using 777 in my 1876 Winchester repro by Chapparel.  The Caliber is .45/60.  Started out using a drop tube and seating bullet so it just slighty compresses the charge.

After playing around with different loading procedures I settled on just dropping the 777 through a funnel and putting the bullet in so it compressed the charge as the bullet is seated.

[Harve Curry]

Any reports on accuracy & or velocity?

[Grapeshot]

Any reports on accuracy & or velocity?

I can keep all my rounds on an eight inch bull at 100 yards.  This is the furthest I can shoot as we do not have a longer range.

Bullet weights were 300gr cast lead RNFP, 405 grain RNFP, and some 350 grain Hornady JSP.

[Fingers McGee]

Curly,  58 gr by volumn of 777 with a 416 gr BP lubed bonus bullet.  This load just does seat the bullet onthe top of the powder.  No wad, no over powder card.  Out of my Sharpes, it has same POI at 25 and 100 yds, with about a 2-3 inch group.  I've got plenty of the bullets if you want to try some.

Fingers

[Curly Duke]

Fingers, I'll let ya know about the bullets. I have loaded up some 777 loads with the cabela's 525 gr. BP bullets with a .060 over powder wad. Also Loaded up some with Goex FFg with same bullet and over powder wad, compressed about the thickness of the wad.....I would tell you the powder grains but that is a secret....ha..ha...well to tell the truth I never really checked it, was just putting enough powder in till I could seat a bullet to the correct depth for my chamber. If those work out I may try to be a little more scientific. , although I did trim all to size and debur flash hole.

Are you going to be going to The Moniteau Creek shoot March 9-11? We are planning on it if we survive Lil' Daisy's wedding the weekend before that . If ya do go to the shoot maybe we can compare notes.....going to try to get out this weekend and try my loads....later pard.