How do you run conicals in your '58?

[Oregon Bill]

After watching Bottom Dealing Mike's fine video on round ball vs. conical, I got my hands on the Lee 450-200 mold and cast up some slugs. You boys who shoot conicals regularly -- are you lubing and sizing them and or just running them over a lubed wad?

[hellgate]

I cast them of dead soft lead and rub a BP lube into the grease grooves and load them as is. When using 30 grs powder there is not room for a wad with that load so I put grease over the ball too. It is a nice "thumper" in the Remington. It takes some fiddling to get them into my ASM 1860 Hartford Army but at 20-25 grs it is a very accurate load in that Colt. The Pietta cannot be loaded with conicals without taking the cylinder off the gun. The ASMs are "iffy". There may be enough room in the Ubertis but I don't have one to tell if it is so. No problem with the 44 Remingtons I have used (Pietta, Uberti & Euroarms).

[Wolfgang]

I shoot conicals in my Piettas very seldom as they are so accurate with round balls that isn't worth the greater expense to use conicals, . . . but I do use hollow base conicals in my original which has rifling . . . but pretty worn.   Good accuracy with the hollow based conicals which expand into the rifling.   

My conicals are from Cabellas.   Pricy but shoot just GREAT.  If I could find a mold to cast hollow base conicals I'd buy it.   Anyone know of one ?