Help with black powder Revolver

Ok, I just bought a black power revolver from Cabela's catalog. I just got it to play around with. I would like to shoot it this weekend but I'm not sure how much powder goes into each chamber. It's a .44 Revolver. The instructions that came with the gun says to use a .454' diameter ball and 12-15 FFFG grain tolerance/0.8-1 FFFG grams tolerance. So what does this mean? 12-15 FFFG grain tolerance and 0.8-1 grams tolerance? Cabela's sent a little instruction pamphlet along with the gun. It says for cap and ball revolvers with standard cylinder capacity - 35 grains of FFFG powder. So do I want to use 35 grains of FFFG black powder in my .44 revolver? Is 35 grains safe? What's the maximum amount of black powder grains I should use with a revolver like this?

# It says for cap and ball #revolvers with standard cylinder capacity - 35 grains of FFFG powder. So do #I want to use 35 grains of FFFG black powder in my .44 revolver? Is 35 #grains safe? What's the maximum amount of black powder grains I should use #with a revolver like this?

If this is a standard replica black powder cap and ball revolver then you would want to follow the instructions and start off by using the mentioned load.

But, they should be talking about using 35 grains of the FFFG black powder or substitute by VOLUME and not by weight.

Why not take your new purchase and head off to a local shooting club and see if there are any black powder shooters there. Or, visit a gun show and find out if there is a dealer or two who specialize in black powder equipment or shooting.

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FFFG is the powder. Grain and Gram are both, in this instance, units of mass.

you can put anywhere from 12-15 GRAINS of FFFG powder in the gun, or 0.8-1.0 GRAMS of FFFG powder in the gun. They just did the conversions for you, to be nice.

There are 15.43 imperial grains to the metric gram.

Not if you want a second shot, no . 'Cabela's little instruction pamphlet' is a generic document. Use the one that came specifically with your revolver.

Apparently not, no. That would be about TWICE the manufacturer's reccomended loading. Quite likely, it would be mechanically unsound, ie, 'the frickin' thing would blow up in your hand'.

Like the gun's manufacturer said: use a .454' diameter ball and 12-15 FFFG grain tolerance/0.8-1 FFFG grams tolerance.

Usually you are limited by the cylinder. This gun was made to shoot conicals so see the length of the conical vs the roundball (if that is what you shoot) and fill accordingly. Make up the difference with oatmeal and DON'T forget to grease your balls. I had 5 rounds fire at once in a Walker I bought in a Pawn Shop with no instruction book. I won't ever forget the smoke and fire nearly 300 grains make. Of course the recoil is the same as only one goes out the barrel, the rest sort of fell on the ground.