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  1. longcruise

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Hmmm, making knife blanks?
  2. longcruise

    Flintlock accuracy and need help finding load

    Their standard twist for 58 is 1:66 if I recall correctly. Twist rate should be fine for ball. I'd like to see a picture of your patches.
  3. longcruise

    .45 TC Hawken Information

    I'll look for the data and paste it in if I find it.
  4. longcruise

    How to polish this sideplate

    Lots of good advice here. I'm going to adopt and adapt to the things that I'm best able to do. I think I have everything I need to make the micro chisels.
  5. longcruise

    anti-gun USPS

    A good positive suggestion. I use Pirate Ship and Shippo and it's made my life of shipping waaay easier. I walk in, put it in a cart and walk out. It's really nice when the Christmas shipping line is 35 or 45 minutes long. Never any more interaction than "how you doin". I got no reason to...
  6. longcruise

    Improving velocity consistency

    Don't like to overstate this but I'll just about guarantee that BP will give you better ES & SD. The Corbin Brothers, both experts in swaging, say/said that the round ball is the most difficult projectile to swage with consistent weights.
  7. longcruise

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Time for me to do my devils 😈 disciple act. 🤣 If I were the OP, and given my background as a stick and string hunter as well as my admitted desire to minimize the distance of my ml shots, I would focus on understanding the movements of the deer where I'm seeing them and make it a point to be...
  8. longcruise

    .45 TC Hawken Information

    Yes, and the biggest variable that I found in chronographing loads was powder. I tested goex, elephant, grafs, swiss, pyrodex and maybe some that I don't recall. I have that data on the desktop. If anyone is interested in seeing it I can dig it out.
  9. longcruise

    .45 TC Hawken Information

    It's wise to take their accuracy and velocity information with a grain of salt. Accuracy is going to vary a lot from gun to gun and with patching and powder manufacturer. Range time with testing on paper for accuracy results and if it matters, a chronograph for velocities. I have in the past...
  10. longcruise

    .45 TC Hawken Information

    Didn't find the 74 version but found another with the info. Here's screen shots of 45 data.
  11. longcruise

    .45 TC Hawken Information

    Yes, I looked up the manual I downloaded and it refers only to the 50. Can't figure why they would have done that. I think I have my 1974 version of the manual. If I can find it, I'll screenshot the 45 data.
  12. longcruise

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Yes, the regs department (for lack of knowing what the actual department is) doesn't seem to have any source of reliable and realistic input. Consequently the basis is SWAG along with the input of various special interest groups. I'm too old to care about it 😴.
  13. longcruise

    .45 TC Hawken Information

    I'm confused 😕. Is it that you are looking for 45 data similar to your OP?
  14. longcruise

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    I'm not a big chunk of lead guy. I've killed deer and elk with balls and conicals. I would say the sample is not large enough to proclaim either superior but OTOH balls have never failed me and conicals have given a couple slow kills.
  15. longcruise

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Here in Colorado it's officially big enough to kill anything but elk and moose as long as the projectile weighs at least 170 grains. 😀 That of course makes the minimum RB caliber for all big game smaller than elk and moose a 50 caliber. Nonresident ml hunters coming here for the first time are...
  16. longcruise

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    This is just me here, but if I were trying to do what you are doing, any change to a conical would be with a 45 caliber. Something that will hurl a 400 grain or even a little heavier with a 1:20 twist. Full disclosure, I'm considering such just for antelope which as time goes on may be the...
  17. longcruise

    How to polish this sideplate

    I think it would be too brutal. I use for example buffing wheels on trigger guards and butt plates with good results but if there is fine detail in the brass it tends to mute it out a lot. Chambers brass is the real McCoy. Not hard like most of the stuff out there.
  18. longcruise

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Pretty sure he is referring to Green River Rifle Works. All trad from my understanding.
  19. longcruise

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I think it might be a bit too long when they keyhole. Not the only cause possible but usually the final contributing factor. But, in all fairness to science, it could be climate change!! 😱
  20. longcruise

    How to polish this sideplate

    I see how that can work. Just happen to have a couple hundred popsicle sticks on hand. Got no idea where they came from but they have been waiting a long time to be employed. Thanks for pointing that out.
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