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  1. DementedMindOfJac

    Is pure lead really necessary for muzzle loading balls or bullet in rifle or hand gun ?

    Quite. Not unless it was an inherently poorly designed loading system that just got copied in repros. LeMat comes to mind.
  2. DementedMindOfJac

    Is pure lead really necessary for muzzle loading balls or bullet in rifle or hand gun ?

    Nah... I'll get more lead and some tin and use this for revolver balls and not-yet-real wadcutters. I'm hybernatin' 'till Spring and I got a little 1970-ish underlever airgun project in the works before then anyway so I'm still in the realm of speculation on this project.
  3. DementedMindOfJac

    Is pure lead really necessary for muzzle loading balls or bullet in rifle or hand gun ?

    Yes. Just my luck. I have plenty mostly antimony alloyed lead. Well, I have until spring to get organized.
  4. DementedMindOfJac

    Is pure lead really necessary for muzzle loading balls or bullet in rifle or hand gun ?

    Thing I'll be dealing with is leading if I use a soft alloy. Any opinions on how hard the bullet needs to be? It's for use in a 38" long molychrome barrel, square groove rifling 1:20 twist with velocities in the 1350fps range. I was thinking of starting real hard, maybe 15 BHN and add pure...
  5. DementedMindOfJac

    Is pure lead really necessary for muzzle loading balls or bullet in rifle or hand gun ?

    Watching... I'll be playing with a 38" .45 with a 1:20 twist as soons it warms up come springtime.
  6. DementedMindOfJac

    WITHDRAWN DP .50 Flintlock

    I rather thought you might. Glad to have helped. Be interested to hear a harmonious outcome.
  7. DementedMindOfJac

    Cheek piece on a Hawken,

    Mine DOESN'T. Interesting thing about the cheek-piece is it's one of the evolutions in the development of rifles in North America. The rifle-smithing that came from the Germaners' Jeager rifles. The early colonial rifles had the square rest, but that changed to what we have there. Beavertail...
  8. DementedMindOfJac

    WITHDRAWN DP .50 Flintlock

    Yes, well it will be contingent on this German air-gun right in the immediate. Then we'll jaw and find out what you have there. If it has a 35" barrel, it ain't a Pennsylvania. That one's spout is round 40"
  9. DementedMindOfJac

    How do you pull back the cock on your flintlock?

    It's like a snub-nose comb.
  10. DementedMindOfJac

    WITHDRAWN DP .50 Flintlock

    The Frontier's stock does not have the Roman Nose stock. Among other things. I have a L&R Ketland lock on her, and it works great - if you want to change your mind. The DP Frontier comes in 4 flavors I know of. The un-brassed plain version with a Walnut stock, the De-Luxe with brass everywhere...
  11. DementedMindOfJac

    German caps?

    Found this on a image search. This is pretty much what the cans looked like, but they were a metal tin when I was comin' up, I'd almost swear that the labels were red and all in German but it's been a long while since'd I last seen one in the wild.
  12. DementedMindOfJac

    German caps?

    My bad. Shoulda read on, eh? Same outfit does make percussion caps, though. Bad luck on them caps.
  13. DementedMindOfJac

    German caps?

    They used to be my go-to years back when I started muzzleloader shootin' in South Africa. Couldn't get anything US-made. In my experience Dynamit-Nobel products are very consistent. Last can of Dynamit caps I saw was in a plastic can, maybe 15 years back. If them caps were stored right, I'd use...
  14. DementedMindOfJac

    How do you pull back the cock on your flintlock?

    Never thought of it much, but I have documented evidence. Seems I hook the Bird finger on the screw an' haul her back.
  15. DementedMindOfJac

    How did American forces reload in battle?

    I watched a amateur documentary where these students found a bunch of civil war skirmish sites with metal detectors. They did all kinds of theories about experience levels of soldiers, but it sure looks to me like more bullets were dropped by both sides, than fired.
  16. DementedMindOfJac

    Ignition while loading

    And yet be relevant enough to participate. Jolly well done.
  17. DementedMindOfJac

    Do you adjust your load or POA for distance?

    Thank you very nice. This comment is my bookmark so I can peruse it at leasure. I like the possibility of calculating variables and confirming them at the range.
  18. DementedMindOfJac

    Ignition while loading

    Moose milk... that's new to me. We don't got Meese around my place. I use a measured flask for my percussion revolvers but my smokepoles get it from the horn to the measure, down the spout - after a swab. I'll still blow in the bore from time to time, but that's more a habit. I don't function...
  19. DementedMindOfJac

    Ignition while loading

    When I do edit, I mark it as such. EDIT: Like so, or Edited because our spellings disagree. On the main, I do not like to edit. Can't be accused of changing it up if you let her stand, bad grammar and spelling regardless.
  20. DementedMindOfJac

    Ignition while loading

    Really? After the safety part what part of that is commo sense? Waiting 20 minutes to reload? Or checking after 20 min if the gun is loaded, and if it is, to remove yourself from the shooting line to pull the ball? I think common sense isn't all that common.
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