50-70 and the BPCR Rookie

[Fogman01]

Welcome to the forum. I applaud your willingness to try BP and shoot your rifle they way it was built to be shot. You are already experiencing the satisfaction or resurrecting and respecting an old rifle and piece of history. My friend bought a Remington rolling block rifle for $100 at an auction years ago and never shot it. I had it chamber cast and found it was likely a .43 Spanish. I shoot different calibers of BP rifles so loaded him a few light BP loads, 45 grains Swiss with a 370 gr pp bullet I knew would make it through the barrel. His first shot at 75 yards was in the 9 ring and the second was in the X ring. The rest made a decent group. He was thrilled and very satisfied to have brought back to life a piece of history from 1874. I have an original Remington RB Creedmoor I am working on getting it out to respectable yardage. I have shot it to 300 yards so far. I learned to pp and breach seat it they way it was shot at the Creedmoor matches. Very satisfying bringing life back to these old originals!