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Sir Jerry has acquired Sir Saint Bagwell's "Smoke over Africa" rifle from Mrs. Bill Bagwell.
That is a Shiloh Sharps 1874 Montana Rough Rider .45-70.
"It's one of five 20"-twist rifles Bill got Kirk up at Shiloh to tool up for."

Paper-patched load Sir Jerry has come up with has a standard deviation in fps of less than the number of shots fired,
2 fps for 3 shots. Excellent.
Jerry claims he can do better, in his usual self-deprecating manner, but that is going to be a tough nut to crack.

Mould is a copy of an original Sharps factory bullet "500-grainer" that weighs 505 In Sir Jerry's alloy,
and I am thinking might have been 511 grains in the alloy used by Sir Saint Bagwell.