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    You got it ALL wrong, son…

    All the best to you!
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    Inlet black substitute

    O’Reilly Auto Parts stores carry Prussian Blue in a small tube of maybe a oz.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    You have an artistic bent with your mechanical talents!
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    Foot Pounds

    I’m sure it will be a pleasure to read his applied classical mechanics physics book!
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    Foot Pounds

    It’s on order and will be delivered soon. Thank you.
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    Foot Pounds

    The energy comes from the gases created by the burning gun powder.
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    Foot Pounds

    The energy of the propellant expanding and pushing the projectile out the bore would also cause heating directly and due to frictional heat of the projectile in the bore. So when considering conservation of energy, there are other factors involved.
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    Foot Pounds

    Do you not agree that the total energy of the projectile is the sum of the rotational energy and the energy of the projectile’s forward motion?
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    Foot Pounds

    Twist makes a bullet rotate. Faster twists would cause a bullet to rotate faster thereby increasing the rotational energy. As such the total energy given the projectile would increase. Since the projectile would have more energy the recoil energy would be increased. My intuition is that the...
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    To pin or not to pin a wooden ramrod?

    Thank you very much for this note!
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    To pin or not to pin a wooden ramrod?

    Thank you to all for your experience and advice. It is such a pleasure to have this resource!
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    To pin or not to pin a wooden ramrod?

    Just looking for advice and experience - should a wooden ramrod be glued and pinned or only one or the other? This is on a 50 cal.
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    New Curley Maple stock having shallow cracks - What to do?

    A question - is the prevalent humidity in the suppliers area higher than the humidity in your area? If so it’s possible that drying would be from a change in local humidity.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Bought a knife there one time long ago. It is a good one!
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    Shotgun came already loaded.

    A toy gun is an oxymoron!
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    After the Kibler Kits

    Here’s expressing my appreciation for the tremendous quality I see in the SMR kit recently received and for the detail in the videos you have made. Thank you.
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    Mystery lead for round ball?

    That’s Introduction to Solid State Physics by Charles Kittel.
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