Excuse me if this is an ignorant remark, but won't a blackpowder load with a fairly soft bullet "bump up" enough to fit the bore and shoot accurately? I have no Germanic rifles but this has always worked quite well for me with American rifles that use similar cartridges that were originally designed for black powder. You can keep hardening dead soft bullets until you find the alloy that still shoots well but is hard enough to penetrate game. Or soften (anneal) the bases of hard lead bullets to help them bump up to the bore diameter.
Last edited by Mike A.; 09/28/11 11:37 AM.
