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  1. Loyalist Dave

    Best Animal fat for lube?

    The highest melting temp animal fat is beef tallow from raw beef suet. Ask the butcher for that, it's the fat from around the cow's kidneys. (Same fat you see in Salami or Lebanon Bologna.) Also the same fat you want if you do tallow, or beeswax and tallow, candles. Good to know if you're...
  2. Loyalist Dave

    Best Animal fat for lube?

    Biscuits Lad! It makes a difference in biscuits made from scratch! LD
  3. Loyalist Dave

    Failed to fire, how to best extract or remove .50 sabot and 100 grain load?

    He's been answered, and I won't delete this as it may help a person in the future avoid a dangerous situation. But this IS a POWERBELT discussion folks LD PS Sorry prior to editing I had "INLINE" and for some reason have "inlines" on my mind. LD
  4. Loyalist Dave

    CVA Optima Pro Magnum .50 Cal Replacement Barrel

    Unfortunately, the CVA Optima Pro Magnum is an inline and is not discussed on this forum , BUT... try Modern Muzzleloader Muzzleloading Forum with your search for a replacement barrel :thumb: LD
  5. Loyalist Dave

    do you recognize this cannon?

    I'd disagree on the description "toy", but the rest I do agree with. I'd suggest the term "replica" because I think that it was made for a memorial display or decorative display. It likely went atop a stone or concrete pedestal, perhaps private. The stuff that one sees is normally bronze, and...
  6. Loyalist Dave

    1861 Springfield Dated 1864 Trenton, NJ

    YES he's real YES the rifled musket is too, For some reason that I cannot recall, I completely missed that a previous posting was a history of the rifled musket not an ad. And I completely screwed up that situation..., no excuse :doh: Anyway he's back, he still owns the rifled musket, and...
  7. Loyalist Dave

    First Flintlock Buck

    WELL DONE LD
  8. Loyalist Dave

    Old schooler needs some suggestions

    Good morning At this forum we don't discuss inlines nor their ammunition. However, there is our sister-site, and you will likely find answers there. :thumb: Modern Muzzleloader Muzzleloading Forum LD
  9. Loyalist Dave

    T/C Triumph Issue

    Hello Joe Brunker: At this forum we don't discuss inlines nor their ammunition. However, there is our sister-site, and you will likely find answers there. :thumb: Monder Muzzleloader Muzzleloading Forum LD
  10. Loyalist Dave

    SOLD - Pending funds Maynard Carbine Brass Cartridge Cases

    While the cases themselves belong to a carbine/rifle that is OK under the terms of the Forum, as it was fielded before 1865, and requires an external cap, ... You need one ad for the used cases, and one ad for the unused cases, unless you sell them all together for a single price, AND You need...
  11. Loyalist Dave

    Gun range lead concerns

    They don't like what the noise IS, not the noise itself. Their little snowflake minds do NOT like that it's the sound of a gun being fired. There likely is NO law against mowing one's lawn, nor a law about how many times a week one might mow said lawn, Nor how long a person may take when...
  12. Loyalist Dave

    Pederoli Brown Bess Missing Pins

    You're quite welcome. Just be glad you didn't yank all the pins, hardware, barrel, and trigger, and were sitting there trying to figure out why you didn't label them as they were extracted..., don't ask me how I know. OH the longest pin as mentioned is the barrel pin between the stock-swell and...
  13. Loyalist Dave

    Pederoli Brown Bess Missing Pins

    OK so FIRST, take a rough sharpening stone or a fine file, and round the tips of the pins. Otherwise you run a much much higher risk of knocking out a chunk of wood from the stock as you tap the pins home. The Pedersoli parts diagram does show the pins, but they are not drawn well. I have...
  14. Loyalist Dave

    54 problems

    The problem may be indicated by the patches. IF the patches are being torn up, that usually means either a rough spot in the bore, or a ringed barrel. The fact that sometimes two ball almost go into the same hole means that for those shots, the patches survived long enough to impart sufficient...
  15. Loyalist Dave

    Whether shooting.....

    Same here. It wasn't a loud "click" it was a not so loud "pop" from the cap, instead of a 💥BOOM💥 This could be from wiping the bore. I've had a "clatch" where the spark from the frizzen was non-existent, and thus the prime in the pan was unaffected, and I've had a flash-in-the-pan, which did...
  16. Loyalist Dave

    I forgot to pack the roundballs - but the substitute worked

    Flag on the play..., The call is Balderdash. 5 yards and repeat the down. ONE, the brittleness and lack of mass of the candy would cause it to be ineffective: TWO, by writing, "Question is am I telling the truth or making up a story?" you are giving away that you're making up the story...
  17. Loyalist Dave

    54 problems

    Lots of questions then Does it group, and it's just that the group is 12" high, or does it scatter shots and they all are 12" high? Are you using round ball? If you are using round ball, have you recovered and examined any of the patches? Can we see photos of them please? Did the rifle start...
  18. Loyalist Dave

    Buck vs Doe

    When I was a boy there was no doe season in Maryland. Now doe are fair game. What changed was not just numbers of doe, but ability to reproduce. Fifty years ago it was uncommon for doe to have twins, and very rare for them to have triplets. Now it's uncommon for them to have triplets, which...
  19. Loyalist Dave

    .45 Kentucky rifle loads

    Alright so you have a fine rifle. :thumb: There are several methods to work up a load. The basic one that I've always used is to start with a load in your caliber, rounded up to the nearest "10". So a .45 would be 45 grains, rounded up to the nearest 10 would be a starting load of 50 grains...
  20. Loyalist Dave

    Revisiting hardtack

    Yep, the mortar and pestle was a regular feature of many kitchens. One could pound the stuff back into coarse flour. Whole wheat flour be it red or white will go bad because the germ is part of the flour when ground. It smells "punky" as it starts to go. YET you hear about long sea...
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