Loading The Single Action Sixgun

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Re: Loading The Single Action Sixgun

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Lawsuits were not as common as these days. And the general consensus was, if you can't handle a gun safely don't buy one. If you screw up it's your fault. These days no one ever accepts the responsibility of dicking something up.
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Jim , That USFA SAA is a beauty , I kinda wish now when they came out I would have bought one. Those one piece grips are really nice . That would be my goto.
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Yeah .. the USFA's are now priced where the Colts were a year or two ago. I shoulda bought two! :roll:
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JimT wrote: ↑Sun Feb 15, 2026 4:46 pm Yeah .. the USFA's are now priced where the Colts were a year or two ago. I shoulda bought two! :roll:
My most carried single action is a USFA Rodeo (all US made). I can’t find a fault with it.

My Colt is in El Paso with Paul Persinger.
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Scott, assuming your Colt SAA has the original cylinder, do you size your bullets to .454" or do you use bullets from a custom loading house like Buffalo Bore?
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Walt wrote: ↑Tue Feb 17, 2026 11:05 am Scott, assuming your Colt SAA has the original cylinder, do you size your bullets to .454" or do you use bullets from a custom loading house like Buffalo Bore?
It depends. I shoot a lot of .452 commercially cast bullets. But I don’t buy them too hard. When I make my own I cast them softer and size them to .454. Either seems to work satisfactorily in my guns.
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I bought one of the Saeco lead hardness testers a year ago but I'm not entirely happy with it. The vernier scale is so small and the differentiation between one hardness and another is so nebulous that it kinda leaves the the true hardness in question.

I recently bought 500 bullets from Missouri Bullets in .452" that they claimed were BnH 12 hardness. Since I don't have confidence in my hardness tester, I can't really confirm that but since other commercial bullets seem to be about 20BnH I probably will order more from them since I'm about out.
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Walt, I want a bullet that is soft enough that I can mark it with my thumbnail. That’s not terribly scientific but I don’t like really hard bullets.
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