I have a 1858 New Army .44 caliber revolver made by F.L. Lippita. The revolver uses a .451 round ball. .44 caliber wonderwads. And the charge weight is no more then 30 grains of 3f powder. I personally use 25 grains of powder because that is most accurate.

First thing before loading is put a swab on a rod and spray it with alcohol. Then swab the cylinders. Some pop a cap through each cylinder, I do not. I load the powder. Then a wonderwad, then the roundball, then I take Crisco Shortening and cover the cylinder. Even though they claim with the wad you do not have to Crisco the cylinders, if you ever had a chain fire, you would understand why you do not want to do it over..... After that, cap the nipples and shoot them off.

After you have shot the revolver, pull the cylinder. Take a cloth with some solvent and wipe the inside of the revolver frame out, especially the cylinder retaining rod, and the back of the revolver. This will help when you reload the cylinder and shoot it again. If you do not clean between shots, the revolver gets really dirty and finally it gets almost impossible on my revolver to pull the cylinder....

When I clean the revolver, I disassemble the revolver. Pull the handles. Then clean every single part of the revolver metal. A soap and water bath is the easy way to clean the revolver.. Then I brush the cylinders and bore, and solvent the cylinders and bore. Then some dry ones, oil it all back up and put it back together....