A little trouble with compression

[Eric Johanen]

You know Lumpy, I will give your method a try on my 50. Read Robert's many years ago and in it he does mention that very many of the shooter's then favored a "weak" primer. They believed that it promoted a more even burn. 30 or so years ago I tested this with my cap and ball revolvers and found that the Remington #10 primer gave the best groups. Started using the primer wads in my 45-70 and 45-90 a number of years ago and I believe that it does help. I found that the CCI large rifle bench rest primer proved best when not using a wad. Then began using the under primer method and liked the results. I have not tried this with the 50-70. I have been using the CCI BR primer with it and it does shoot nicely. My old 50-70 63 conversion carbine with the barrel liner and my Shiloh Military Rifle both showed good accuracy. Need to run some .50 cal. bullets anyway!