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    Prime with 3 or 4F

    No time to read all the posts on this; however, dry-balling is one very good reason to have a vent liner on your flinter. Don
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    Patch??? Not what you'd expect the question to be.

    We always used two-tube pine pitch. Available in most tipis. Don in NH
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    Finding the Right Ball for your Rifle?

    For the best fit of ball to rifling remember that the ball must be smaller than the bore of the lands and that the slack caused by the rifling will be taken up by the patch thickness. If your patching is fabric, recover one of your properly lubed fired patches and observe the ring where it held...
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    Hello From New Hampshire

    Nice to find other BP users here in New Hampshire. I'm now a n otherwise happy member of a local gun club near New London but find that there are none but me who indulge the primal urge to blast targets using a flinter and other such paraphernalia. Escorted non-members are welcome, so if you...
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    Birds Eye Stocked Flintlock I Just Finished

    That is the most beautiful piece I have ever seen made from bird's-eye Maple. I once made a piece from a stick of the same type Maple with "touches" of bird's-eye and discovered the most difficult wood to decorate with carving, ever! Yours is obviously made by a Master. Congratulations! Don...
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    What is the proper name for "possibles bag"?

    Call your pouch whatever you want to. It's yours. If you're going to the shooting line or out in the forest, just remember that it is for taking just enough items to shoot as many shots as you expect to, and enough other stuff (tools) as you may need to take care of problems that may come up...
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