For over thirty years I loaded percussion revolvers in the following fashion. Powder, ball and then grease / bullet lube smeared on top of the cylinder chambers. This method is great for dedicated range use, but can cause problems for field use. Recently, I have tried using pre lubed felt wads. The problem that I am experiencing is the ball will follow the loading lever up when seated. At times is will refuse to remain seated in the chamber and will fall out of the cylinder. My conclusion is the lube from the felt wad doesn't allow the lead ball to grip the sides of the chamber walls. The gun that I am experiencing this problem with is a 44 caliber Uberti Remington replica. When seating the ball there is a lead ring left on the face of the cylinder with both .454 and .457 balls. As stated earlier, this is the first time that I have used pre lubed wads or any wads of any kind in a percussion revolver. I have never had this problem with placing bullet lubricant/grease on top of loaded chambers. Has anyone else experienced this problem and if so, what solutions were used to fix the problem?
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