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    Fired my Blunderbuss today. :)

    My house is one big man cave. :) I see my gf once a week, if I'm lucky. I'm going to pass on trying 2F in the pan, I forgot that a couple years ago I bought a charger flask. I've got it full of Goex 3F, it's easier than using my pistol flask. I made up some packets of 70 grains of #7 shot and...
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    Fired my Blunderbuss today. :)

    There are a lot of variables even under good weather conditions. I didn't think about condensation when I took a 75 degree gun outside into a 100 degree, 50% humidity environment. It was sweating all over. I used 3F Goex Pinnacle as the ignition charge, just filling up the depression on the pan...
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    Fired my Blunderbuss today. :)

    My steel Blunderbuss from MVCT came in more than a week ago, my flints came in the mail today. Specifics: 14" steel barrel, .678" bore, my .68" lead balls won't fit. I plan on using a patched .60" ball, birdshot, and buckshot. I've barely touched a flintlock before. Via Pete's advice I bought a...
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    Rusty barrel optimism question

    I used Evaporust in my used 41' Mississippi rifle bore and my '42 Springfield rifle. The Springfield has a bright finish, so it didn't matter about the finish. I didn't realize that my brown finish on my MS rifle could have been at risk, but I plugged the nipple with some craft foam so it...
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    Walker loads and projectiles

    I bought a Colt style brass mold from Blockade Runner a few weeks ago.(http://www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catpg6.htm) It leaves quite a flash line and a large sprue in the round ball. You can see the rebated area on the rear of the conical ball that makes it easy to line up and load. It...
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    Need help in finding patchings

    Walmart's getting out of the fabric business here. They remodeled both of our Supercenters and got rid of the fabrics. They still sell some sewing stuff, but no fabric. Across the street is Hobby Lobby and Hancock Fabrics, though. They both have better prices, anyway.
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    Transporting a Muzzleloader?

    I asked a friend, who is a lawyer and gun collector, about it. He said if you live close to a school, there's an exemption; you can have guns on your own property, including your car. Due to the commerce laws and the GCA of '86,you can transport a gun in your car while you're on the highway or...
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    Making my own mold?

    Old hot plates might melt lead, but the cheap hot plates they sell at Walmart and Fred's nowadays tell you in their owner's manual they're only good for boiling water and can't even cook meat to a safe internal temperature. I found an old brass electric lead melter a friend's father gave me...
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    Range rod for longer barrels

    I bought two of these and put an extra section on one of them. http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=285630
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    Round ball ammo

    I picked one up at Harbor Freight for $15 on sale. It came with two batteries. It's supposed to turn itself off, but if something in the case touches any of the buttons or jars the jaws, it turns on automatically. Replacement batteries are 3 for $5 at Walmart, unless you buy an LED light/laser...
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    I don't have enough necks

    Smokin' 50: That's an excellent checklist and guide to what a person would need for an outing. I shoot in my backyard, if I forget something, I send one of my kids to fetch it. I have a wooden crate I'm going to use as a base for a rolling cart.
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    My smoothbore turned into a rifle..

    I mic'd my muzzle at the bottom of the grooves at .6925" I think I'll get the .685" minie balls they sell at Track of the Wolf and give them a try. They use the Lyman mold. If they do well, I'll get one of those molds. I'm going to use a 40% off coupon at Hobby Lobby tomorrow to get a rock...
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    My smoothbore turned into a rifle..

    I picked up some copper wool and ammonia. I ran boiling water down the barrel and let it drain, three times to get all the fouling out, ran the breech scraper between each batch of water and ran the plain brush down the bore after the first time I poured water. Before the third time, I wrapped a...
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    My smoothbore turned into a rifle..

    I'm using a bagmold I bought from Track of the Wolf that makes a .680 ball, but I haven't mic'd them. They turn out ovoid, not round with a thick mold line on the equator. Using a lubed .010" patch of broadcloth, I can hit a 5" circle at 50 yards when my eyes agree with that pitiful front sight...
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    My smoothbore turned into a rifle..

    I've got a couple of bottles of Hoppe's #9 already. I used a paper cartridge most of the time, relying on the paper to act as a patch. I used a dry .010 or .015" muslin patch before that. I've read that Hodgdon Triple 7 burns "wet" and produced it's own lube. That's true with FFFg in my cap...
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    My smoothbore turned into a rifle..

    Supposedly it had been fired once and put away uncleaned. It had some light rust in the bore when I bought it. The other guns looked the same condition..I used some foamy blackpowder cleaner stuff the first time I cleaned it. The second time I used an alcohol/peroxide/Murphy's oil soap...
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    My smoothbore turned into a rifle..

    My Armi Sport 1842 .69 Springfield has rifling now, plain as day. I kept looking at the bore when I first cleaned it and never saw the rifling before. I would run a patch down the bore and feel the rod rotate, but could only see what I thought was a land out of the corner of my eye..Even when I...
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    .62 load for O buck

    Let me check my "recipe" I was going on memory about the buckshot...and I already suspect I was in err.. Aha..12 pellets of #1, not 18. It's a double barreled pistol with .638" bore diameter at the muzzle. I used the Pedersoli's Howdah starter load as a beginning and used 20 gauge shells as a...
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    Steel shot

    I understand. I sure didn't know that about steel BB's, but I haven't done any research about it. I thought that BB gun barrels were made of cheap soft steels and an actual gun's barrel would be tougher, since it handled higher pressures. I've only fired a few rounds with steel BB's, a half...
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    another buckshot questionI

    If you never make mistakes, you won't know how to fix a problem when you do.
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