EMF 1890 with Black Powder

[Tubac]

I've been shooting my EMF (uberti) 1890 pistol with reduced smokeless loads.
I've been thinking about using Black Powder, has anyone had sucess with BP?
I've shot my original with 20grs. of FFG, but the EMF has much tighter tolerances.
Tubac

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

I shoot 28 Grns of FFG or FFG in my 44 Remington C.F. Conversions and it works well. If your's is a 45LC 28 or 30 should be fine, just remeber to lube with Olive Oil or Bore Butter as the Holy Black will tighten the cylinder up fast.

[Tommy tornado]

What he said above!  I usually bring along Balistol or Windex with Vinegar and shoot a little on the front of the cylinder to keep things spinning.  Otherwise my 1875 works fine with BP and smokeless.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Howdy, Tubac!

Again, what the others have leaned toward, the lube is the key.  There are some new boolits and moulds available (if ya cast yer own) or a couple pards, "Mason Stillwell" and "Springfield Slim" sell cast and pre-lubed boolits.  If you DO cast, contact "Dick Dasterdly" for moulds.  You'll find all these pards on the Darksiders Den forum here on CAS City.  The BigLube (tm) boolits (bullets) hold several times the amount of lube as conventional rounds.  As you probably know, Tubac (since you've been around here for a while) the soft, BP friendly lubes are extra important for making CAS Rifles continue to work - and Remingtons, due to the difference in their construction compared to the Colts.  I don't have an 1890 Remington, but I do have a pair of 1875s and at the 2006 NCOWS National shoot, I shot nearly 50 rounds from one (the ONLY one I took) of my '75s before the cylinder STARTED to get sticky.  Before I started using the Big Lube boolits, it reached the same level of stickiness on the 4th round!!

The 12 Commandment I've made regarding BP is: 

You can't have TOO MUCH LUBE !!!!!     But you can have too little.  Also, soft lead boolits are the way to go when shooting BP in ANY gun!

[Tommy tornado]

The 12 Commandment I've made regarding BP is: 

You can't have TOO MUCH LUBE !!!!!     But you can have too little.  Also, soft lead boolits are the way to go when shooting BP in ANY gun!

You can if it mixes with the powder!  Made that mistake reloading once experimenting with cookies.

[Outrider #72622]

I'll tell ya boys.  Johnny Thundersticks did something to my '75 44-40s and I shot six stages with nary a wipe, squirt or spray.  My pard shot them after the shoot and was amazed that they still felt that smooth.  I was shooting APP .427 200gr.  I don't know the exact powder charge because I bought them from Great Basin.  I think he took some off the barrel where it meets the cylinder, not sure.