My experience with black powder cartridges has been to load so that the powder comes up to the base of the slug after light compression or when dropped through a drop tube. I would strongly recommend "the paper jacket" by Paul Mathews before loading. Not particularly for safety but for accuracy. I would also strongly recommend using a very soft lube such as SPG or 50-50 mix of animal grease + bees wax and cast your slugs from around 5% alloy (95% lead). I would use a drop tube and try both 2F and 1F granulations for accuracy.

cheers Doug

Last edited by Doug Miller; 04/02/07 09:54 PM.