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    Buck & Ball Loads

    Some years ago there was an article in Muzzleloader or Muzzleblasts were they experimented with buck and ball loads. Although the traditional buck and ball cartridge had the pellets in front of the ball, the writer got a tighter pattern with the pellets behind the ball. He theorized that with...
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    Civil War Musket Cartridge

    Although the nitrated paper musket cartridges would probably work, they would not be PC if that means anything to you. Civil war musket cartridges were not made of cumbustible paper, and only the Enfield cartridges were designed to be load with the paper, which acted as a lubed patch for the...
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    Goex Pinnacle

    Never could figure out the hazmat thing. You can buy loaded ammunition, which contains powder and primer, as much as you want and just pay standard shipping. Separate the components, and now you have a hazmat fee? HOW COME IT AIN'T HAZRDOUS AFTER YOU PUT THE COMPONENTS TOGETHER?
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    What makes a Hawken?

    Its been a long time, but I once read "The Crow Killer", the story of John "Liver Eating" Johnson on which the movie is based. As I recall, the author made the same mistake, calling Johnson's rifle a 30. I believe he meant to say that he carried a rifle with a ball of 30 to the pound, or about...
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    short katahdin in line barrel

    I would plug up the end of it, drill a touchhole into the side of it and build a flintlock around it. Then load it with real black powder and you will have a real muzzleloader, not a slow-loading 45-70. Seriously, I don't think you will find much help here since this is a traditional...
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    Deer Tallow Patch Lube?

    Deer fat is a lot like beef fat in that it is hard when at room temperature. Don't expect a crisco or oil like consistency from it...more waxy than anything else. The way I do it is to fill a coffee can about half full of water and set it on the grill. I bring it to a boil then add the deer...
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    Bear grease/oil storage ?

    I have some stuff that I rendered last year in different batches. The batches that were totally bear fat with no meat or blood have no smell at all. It sits in antique bottles on my mantle, where I occassionally dip out the oil that has separated from the grease. If it smelled the wife would...
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    Patches and the like

    I have a Rayl barrel on my 58 Jaeger and a 570 ball sits on the muzzle. I load mine with .562 balls and .015 ticking and it loads and shoots fine.
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    Poor Boy or Springfield?

    Some of the Italian repops have the rear sight further down the barrel. My Richmond Rifle from JRA is a good example. I cannot handle the sights being too close to the breech either, but on the Richmond they are far enough down to give me a good sight picture. Surprisingly, for a rifle...
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    Cheap Felt Wad Source

    They would work. I prefer to go to Lowes and get the felt strips they sell for weather sealing. I soak em in liquid lube, freeze em, then cut them out by the hundreds with a wad punch. The freezing makes them easier to cut, and they are compressible so one size can work for several calibers...
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    ack that I had More friends added

    There is an early CVA on one of the gun auction boards..the "Made in USA" kind. If I were in the market, I would check that one out.
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    Cleaning up after using Moose Snot

    I think the very properties that keep the snot from drying out keep it clinging to the bore after shooting and trapping the fouling. I would suggest either hot water to help dissolve the oils and grease, or else some sort of alcohol. However, do not get too concerned about getting the bore...
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    1:32twist and a PRB?

    http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/203667/post/376147/hl//fromsearch/1/#376147 I didn't analyze the theoretical results for a 1 in 32, but it should be somewhere between the 1-20 and 1-48. You should get decent accuracy but maybe not hunting power if you load to...
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    How do I compute sight height?

    It is a simple geometrical relationship based on similar triangles and ratios/proportions. It works for windage or elevation. (your 8th grade geometry teachers are spinning in their graves now!) :grin: :grin: R/B=C/D D=C*B/R Where R= distance to target in inches B= sight radius in...
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    .69 target loads?

    Lots of guys shoot these at 50 by either replacing the front sight with a taller one, or else building up the existing front sight with JB Weld or some other type of epoxy, laying on a pad of weld, or some other method. As far as groups go, keep experimenting with patch thickness, or maybe even...
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    .69 target loads?

    Also remember that the sights on these rifles were designed to hit a man somewhere in the chest area out to about 200 yards by the simple expedient of having the soldier hold on the belt buckle. So 11 inches high at 50 yards is about what would be expected.
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    CS Richmound

    Congratulations! I just got one of those from James River Armory from a guy who was selling it on the NSSA board. Although specially barreled for target work and light loads,mine shoots good enough for my purposes with the Lyman 505 grain minie, sized to 570.Very easy to load, even after...
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    Glass "Powderhorn"?

    As has been definitively determined, there really isn't any way a static charge is going to generate enough heat to ignite powder. So I think the issue is the sturdiness of the container. Glass is heavy compared to horn, is not flexible or "plastic" in nature, and brass or copper can be dented...
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    Lowest Cost Cap Source?

    Or figure out just how that Chinese guy in Muzzleloader Magazine managed to fire his percussion gun without caps by dropping the hammer on plain old powder. At least that is what the article implied.
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    1803 Harper's Ferry

    No different than any other Muzzleloader. Start light and work up. 530 caliber roundball with pillow ticking, greased with your lube of choice. I use bear grease and beeswax, but there are lots of alternatives. I would start with about 50 grains and work up 5 grains at a time until you find a...
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