fiundagner
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i recently bought a Pietta model 1858 Black powder revolver (fair warning I know very little about black powder weapons so i am sure i am going to get some things wrong) (http://www.cabelas.com/product/Pietta-M ... l+Products). i ordered a mold for it (when I looked around no one seems to sell basic musket balls. Everyone sells black powder sabots for rifle, but no one sells basic balls) and when I opened the package to look at the mold it is a bullet mold (conical bullets instead of balls). According to Cabelas customer service these are perfectly safe to fire in the revolver. However since they sold me the bullet mold and were telling me it was a ball mold (and the picture shows a ball mold) I am taking this with a fairly large grain of salt. Does anyone fire black powder weapons, specifically this pistol or one similar to it? Is it safe to fire conical bullets in a cap and ball revolver? Will it cause any problems doing so?