Period correct '74 Sharps Buffalo Rifles?

[Gunner500]

Thanks for the load tips and patch width Don, here's what I had in mind for the first load test.

470-480 gr parallel sided paper patch base pour bullet with a 200 thou meplat.
77 grs OE2F

Compress powder 250 thou
one 30 thou Walters wad
230 thou grease cookie from RDNCKS home made lube
another 30 thou Walters wad
insert patched bullet by hand, just enough taper crimp to keep the bullets from falling out of the cases while hunting with them in my belt, on off horses, in and out of a pickup etc, also need to be able to unload from a fouled barrel without leaving the bullet stuck in the bore like some damn e d it!