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    Flintlocks and fire danger

    I think there's probably a fire danger with anything that uses wadding or cartridge paper, flintlock or not. When I was a kid in the '50s hunting with an original percussion 14-gauge Lacey of London Northwest trade gun, I used newspaper wadding with my shot loads but always chewed the wadding...
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    Track Of The Wolf Service

    Have dealt with Track of the Wolf occasionally for stuff I can't get locally and have been a customer of theirs for I don't know how long. In the last three years this included a Green Mountain RB barrel purchase and last year a very complicated tang-sight transaction (in which ALL the...
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    .54 shooters with a chronograph

    Darkhorse, you're absolutely right about FFFg; the ballistics tables that make up most of the pages in that old Lyman book you mentioned bear you out, as does my own experience. My preference for FFg comes entirely from economy and convenience: mainly the fact I also use it in my shotgun.
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    .54 shooters with a chronograph

    I use a T/C peep sight with Green Mountain's issue front sight. If I used open sights, with my aged eyes (65 the end of this month), the benchrested groups would run around four inches at least, probably even bigger. But what I'm most impressed by is that Old Zip lube: been usin' it for 16...
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    .54 shooters with a chronograph

    I don't have a chronograph but my best friend does. Out of a .54 Green Mountain RB barrel in a 1970s-vintage T/C Renegade stock, the barrel 32", 1:70, w/.535 Speer ball, .015 Irish linen patch, Dixie Old Zip Patch Grease, 120 grs. GoEx FFg, CCI #11 cap, this load at an outside temperature of 56F...
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    CVA - Sidehammers Gone...

    Old Charlie...if you're talking about the EARLY '80s, you're absolutely right. But ML prices remained remarkably constant despite the 12-14 percent annual inflation rates that carried over from the '70s. Even so, especially with U.S. made guns, advances in robotics -- automation -- enabled...
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    RESULTS - Age of Forum Users

    I think you're right. As Seattleite John Ehrlichman testified during the Watergate hearings, Washington state is often used as a proving ground for techniques of oppression, and that's surely true in this case: the anti-gun, anti-"blood-sport" tactics developed here 20 years ago -- especially...
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    CVA - Sidehammers Gone...

    Tinderbox...You're absolutely right. If I hadn't bought my muzzle loaders years ago, there's no way I could afford to get into muzzle-loading at today's prices. I don't think that's an accident either. I have heard (but can't prove) there was real fear on the part of the powers that be -- fear...
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    RESULTS - Age of Forum Users

    The real irony is the main reason I moved here (in 1970) was for the trout fishing and the hunting -- then among the very best anywhere in the Lower 48. :(
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    RESULTS - Age of Forum Users

    What Washington state has done is -- as far as I know -- unique. Its ruling Democrat establishment secretly decided two decades ago to undermine the Second Amendment NOT by outright gun bans but rather by imposing ever-more-severe restrictions on firearms use. Long term, the Democrat belief is...
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    RESULTS - Age of Forum Users

    I'll be 65 the end of March, but as I said on another thread, I've been shooting muzzle-loaders (and modern firearms) since my teens. I was actually given my first rifle, a .22, at age 9. But I am extremely pessimistic about the future of shooting and firearms ownership in general. There is no...
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    Post deleted by Claude

    Three years Regular Army 1959-1962, 18 months Republic of Korea (including the JFK extension), reserves until 1965.
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    newbee

    Hello everyone, I already jumped right into a couple of the discussions without introducing myself properly 'cause I didn't notice this particular welcome-wagon thread until just now. Been shooting muzzle loaders (and modern firearms) since my teens in the 1950s. Grew up about two-thirds in...
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    Round Ball accuracy??

    That's just about how my 1975-vintage T/C Renegade shoots with its .54 caliber, 32" 1:70 Green Mountain barrel: .535 Speer ball (or a .535 ball from a Lee mold), .015 Irish Linen patch, Dixie's Old Zip Patch Grease, 120 grs. GoEx, CCI #11 cap. (The original barrel is long gone, traded for I...
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    Round Ball accuracy??

    Accuracy that bad, you might have a bent barrel. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen. If you've already sent the gun back to T/C, telephone them, ask for the service department and describe the problem in detail. In every case I know about of that kind of severe inaccuracy with a T/C gun...
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    Real BP in New York State

    A little off topic, but... Outstanding cap-and-ball revolver accuracy probably has a lot to do with chamber lube. I use Dixie's Old Zip Patch Grease, which about 15 years ago (back in the woods and quite by accident) I found out is many times more accurate than any other chamber lube I ever...
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    Real BP in New York State

    Use FFFFg in the Ruger Old Army ONLY. (Ruger manual specifically states "any granulation" from Fg to FFFFg is safe to use.) DO NOT USE FFFFg (4Fg) in ANY other replica revolvers. Here's why: EVERY Uberti .44 I ever owned began destroying itself within less than six rounds when merely loaded...
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    Real BP in New York State

    Have indeed heard the newer Pyrodex ignites a lot easier, but mightly resent being forced to find out -- especially since state bureaucrats have forced the closure of ALL the informal shooting ranges that formerly abounded in Western Washington. (Even with cartridge arms, attempting serious load...
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    Real BP in New York State

    Tried Pyrodex about 15 years ago, quickly gave up on it. Many hang-fires (which for me are normally almost unheard of), also audible differences from report to report -- everything from "boom" to "crack" -- indicating tremendous velocity variation, a guestimate confirmed by the targets...
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    Real BP in New York State

    My reference to the Patriot Act comes from two Puget Sound-area FFL gun dealers, each of whom have told me they won't ever again carry black powder once their present stocks are exhausted, this because (they say) the Patriot Act has imposed radically increased federal storage restrictions. One...
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