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    parched corn..another way?

    Frozen whole-kernal corn put into a dehdrator or dried on an oven rack makes a pretty darn close substitute, and is sweeter and easier on the teeth.
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    TGIF - .50cal smoke at first light !

    Looks like nobody was impressed by my fancy cypherin'! Well you can forget about me doin' "timezes" and "gazintas" too!
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    TGIF - .50cal smoke at first light !

    My rough calcs say 3/25 = 1/x x=25/3 x= 8.33 yards. Sound about right?????
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    Italy 58cal Reproduction Models

    No, 100 grains would probably blow the skirt. Minie rifles kill with mass, not speed. 60 grains was service charge, 70 is an excellent hunting charge. You can go a little higher in powder if you turn down the OD of the plug that goes into the mold to form the hollow base. This makes a...
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    Thrift store find

    Gotta figure out how to post a picture! Does your mucket look like this? [url] http://www.richmonville.com/3013.htm[/url]
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    Ramrod?

    One more thing to try, and I read about this a long time ago in Muzzleblasts, is to get a steel drill gauge, the kind with various size holes cut it in to see what size drill you have. Bevel the holes on one side to make a sharp edge. Then you force the rod through the various holes in kind of...
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    powder horn strap

    Anything goes, and anything was used. In Madison Grant's book, the majority of horns are attached to the straps of bags with their own smaller leather straps. Some hang below the flap, some above. Some horns are actually attached to the corners of the front of the bag with leather straps. I...
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    Are these the same as wonder wads???

    A 5/8 punch makes a .62 wad and I have found that with the material compressibility it will work in a .58 caliber. If you are cheap like me a piece of 5/8 inch I.D. copper tube, sharpened on one side and chucked up in a drill press will cut dozens of wads in short order...especially if you soak...
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    Ramrod?

    Are you talking about a metal Brown Bess type rod, or are you looking for a wooden rod with a trumpet end?
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    hitting target

    Not to be smart alec or anything, but in fairness to the game one should know the weapon well enough to be able to put all of his shots into the kill zone and the maximum range that you can do that becomes your maximum hunting range. If you were having problems getting the smoothbore to group...
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    Inside the barrel

    I stand corrected. When I made my own, I used Beeswax and olive oil. I liked it better than the factory stuff. I had assumed that "all natural" meant no petroleum products. I did read on another board, on a posting by a chemist, that parafin is chemically one of the most "muzzleloader...
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    Dixie Tennessee Mountain Rifle

    If you got if for 300 bucks and all that was wrong was a broken rammer and it needed cleaned up, then you found yourself a real bargain. Congratulations!
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    ML rifle into a Smooth bore

    Assuming that your Renegade was built on the 1" barrel (Hawkens were 15/16), your remaining barrel wall would be .1925. If you leave the reduced diameter chamber alone, and just bore out the barrel, .1925 should be OK in theory. A 40 caliber 13/16 barrek has .1983 barrel wall thickness. And...
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    leading flint

    Paul: Have you ever found it necessary to cut the little fold down "wings" into the flat lead to fold down over the sides of the flint once installed in the lock? I have some pictures of military issued flint leads from the early 1800's and wondered if there was any advantage to them over...
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    Dixie Tennessee Mountain Rifle

    1 in 56 twist, and if you can get it for what you consider to be a fair price, jump on it. I had one with the heavier 15/16 barrel and it was a great shooter. I had a builder put in a banan-style patchbox to cover the grease hole and it looked great! Took several deer with it. Like a fool, I...
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    Inside the barrel

    Wonder lube, by any of the brand names, is the result of a big marketing ploy, in my opinion. Biggest selling point is that it is made of "natural" materials without petroleum which is responsible for a lot of fouling problems. Prior to the introduction of Wonder Lube, lots of guys were using...
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    Ol Thunder Blackpowder Solvent

    We had a thread on this some time ago...the average guy does more damage to his rifle with agressive cleaning than from any other factor. A muzzle guard obviously helps, but why waste patches and abrasive cleaning strokes when most of the fouling can be dumped out on the ground? I have never...
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    Ol Thunder Blackpowder Solvent

    Tried it, and a host of others. Wish I had all that money back. Plain old water works as good or better than any, is cheaper, and is traditional. Don't even have to add soap, or boil it. Lukewarm is fine, cold will do. Plug the touchhole or nipple, pour some down the barrel, slosh it back...
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    need pattern for a sling

    Simplest way is to just cut a slot in each end of the strap a little longer than the strap is wide. Leave 1/2 inch or so at each end, preferably with a round punched hole at the end to keep the slot from growing. Just feed one end of the strap through the slot and make one loop, then pass that...
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    Twist rate and roundball stabilization

    Gentlemen: It was a slow day at work today, so with time on my hands, I put together a spreadsheet to try to draw some conclusions as to the affects that velocity and rifling twist rate have on roundball revolutions per second (RPS). The formula is RPS = Twist rate (in revolutions per foot)...
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