New Recruits August 2014

[pony express]

For our matches, reloading is a must, since commercial ammo suitable for our steel targets is almost non-existant, even for the 45-70. For the black powder rounds, most can be loaded to their original specifications, but the smokeless rounds have to be downloaded with cast bullets, to about 1300fps. Trailboss is the powder of choice for most GAF shooters(or at least it was when you could pick and choose your powders, now it's what you can find, not what you want). You can load 11-12 grains under the standard weight cast bullet in about any full size, 30-32 caliber military caliber and be good to go. For 6.5 or 7mm, or something like a 30-30, well, you'd have to experiment some for those. Some use it in their 45-70s, but I only use the real smokey stuff in mine, so I can't vouch for their loads.