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Pathfinder45 · May 3, 2012, 04:15 PM

I found mine at the Portland gun-shows. I had 49 once-fired nickle Remington-UMC that looked like new. Also some WRA & Co. I even had one WRA black-powder round that I took apart to investigate. The smokeless ones I dismantled had hollow-base bullets. Not so with the old BP round: It had a 255 grain flat based bullet over a compressed charge of BP so compacted it took a screw driver to dig it out. The charge weighed 38 grains. The powder was still good and the primer went, "Bang!". The powder texture was engraved by pressure into the base of the bullet.

May 3, 2012, 04:15 PM	#13
Pathfinder45 Senior Member Join Date: January 7, 2008 Posts: 3,224	They still turn up. I found mine at the Portland gun-shows. I had 49 once-fired nickle Remington-UMC that looked like new. Also some WRA & Co. I even had one WRA black-powder round that I took apart to investigate. The smokeless ones I dismantled had hollow-base bullets. Not so with the old BP round: It had a 255 grain flat based bullet over a compressed charge of BP so compacted it took a screw driver to dig it out. The charge weighed 38 grains. The powder was still good and the primer went, "Bang!". The powder texture was engraved by pressure into the base of the bullet.