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  1. DementedMindOfJac

    Steel vs Brass frame differences?

    No. it doesn't unless you reload .38 Spl with heeled bullets. The bore diameter of the .36 is .375, while the diameter of a .38 is .356". You need a fatter bullet, and the only way to get there is with a heeled bullet. Not an issue for .45 LC/Scofield conversions for .44 C&B pistols. As far as...
  2. DementedMindOfJac

    Not toys

    No. Two lies in one line. You insulted people you don't know, and I explained cause and effect. And I explained how to avoid it. You're slow, boy. No wonder you shot yerself. EDIT: I now consider the matter concluded. To return, considering a comparison to small arms wounds in the Civil War and...
  3. DementedMindOfJac

    Not toys

    I have never shot myself like you have. And I don't blanket-insult swaths of people for no reason. The only thing you have established is the need for that safety catch on your snout.
  4. DementedMindOfJac

    Not toys

    I think if you came around my thorax of the woods, you'd be picking up teeth with broken fingers the minute you opened your mouth. Best safety advice for you is to get a safety-catch on that snout.
  5. DementedMindOfJac

    Not toys

    I finally meet the guy who was behind me when they handed out luck. As far as bumping into chunks of lead, I'll confess, I'm not a fan. At least the guy who tagged me with that AK didn't do it by accident. I'd say I was pretty lucky because if it was a shot from a military rifle circa 1860, I'd...
  6. DementedMindOfJac

    Not toys

    I never call my guns toys, but if'n you was to ask me where I'm headed I might tell you that I'm off to play with my guns. I play with lots of things that are not toys. That don't mean I'm reckless. Hell, I'm s'posed to be playing with a lawnmower right now but I'm playing with a computer...
  7. DementedMindOfJac

    $1,000 budget (set on stone): What should I recommend?

    Good luck with that. My Bucket List rifle tops $3K and that was a $1500 set-in-stone-and-guarded-by-Druids. Thinking of dropping another Ukraine-amount on a better ladder-sight.
  8. DementedMindOfJac

    Ignition WOES!!

    Sounds about right for a long-range load in a .54. My .451, 1:20 twist barrel likes 100gr 3F 777 for a 330gr bullet. Got a 357 levergun with a pregnant bulge in the spout as a teaching aid. Dirt Dobber, I suspect. Now everybody wants to talk about your 120gr load.
  9. DementedMindOfJac

    Ignition WOES!!

    That's a long range load. I use 100gr (abt equivalent to 115gr BP) 777 3F in a 38" barrel to throw a .45 330gr bullet out to 500yd. It started with a feud with an acetalyne tank about 15 years ago. So I built a rifle to shoot the bugger. I think you got a batch of bad/inconsistent caps. None of...
  10. DementedMindOfJac

    Flintlocks at Local Shop

    I have a L&R Ketland on my What-Started-As-A-Pedersoli. I lose track of the number of strikes to the flint, but 50 does sound about right, maybe more. I had a white French flint in her once that I named "Methuselah."
  11. DementedMindOfJac

    Do you aim or point and shoot instinctively?

  12. DementedMindOfJac

    Flintlocks at Local Shop

    For $600 I'd buy that Blue Ridge in a heartbeat. Pedersorries are great guns until you need parts from them and you get Elisa on the line.
  13. DementedMindOfJac

    So..... why a muzzleloading?

    Even more people like Joseph de Maistre. Remember, "Each nation gets the government they deserve."?
  14. DementedMindOfJac

    left hand vrs right hand

    Good starting spot to ambidextrousness. I shoot my ML's right-handed because it's how the stock is carved. However. I won several local ("Smelly") SMLE competitions shooting leftie because those No. 4 Mk 1's have a stock that's same-side-all-side. That happens when you're born in a Commonweath...
  15. DementedMindOfJac

    left hand vrs right hand

    No. The side the lock's on makes no difference. The distance from the lock is too far from the shooter's face. I shoot both-handed, and it's the stock that determines which side you want to shoulder it. I hardly think the fowlers of yore would loose a load of shot then quickly change shoulders...
  16. DementedMindOfJac

    Barrel Condition

    I know the feeling. I had a Belgian FAL that had some awesome unofficial work done on it. I could tell my rifle from the others in the stack, 'cos it was the only one with wooden furniture. STANAG scope, the whole 9. Then the bastridges made me trade it in for a Galil. I could hit out to 600 yds...
  17. DementedMindOfJac

    Another Roach Belly

    The knife I want, I can't afford. Has to be custom made. Be a blade 1/4" thick with a double-edged leaf-shape hollow-ground blade, 7" long and 3" wide at the broadest flare, full-tang, out of D2. That roach-belly edge looks like the right shape if it were reproduced on the spine side. Academic...
  18. DementedMindOfJac

    Crown Questions

    The Englisher Greenjackets used thin greased leather patches in their Bakers for long range Frenchers. It does make sense to me as the thicker compressed patch should give a slightly larger bearing surface to the projectile than the thinner one. Larger bearing surface would engage rifling more...
  19. DementedMindOfJac

    Barrel Condition

    They said the same thing about the the M16 during Vietnam. Guess it works out better against paper. I have always believed that the cornerstone of accuracy is consistency. Consistency in EVERYTHING. From the same cheek-weld to to ambient temperature. EVERYTHING has to be exactly the same as the...
  20. DementedMindOfJac

    Barrel Condition

    And they don't clean their guns? Is this what I am to understand?
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