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  1. Loyalist Dave

    IT'S FREE TARGET STAND SEASON

    ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT, AND FREE TARGET STANDS PART 2 HAPPENS Remember, Check with your local jurisdiction for how long the candidates and their staff or volunteers may leave the wire supported signs up before they are considered "abandoned". ALSO REMEMBER we are not talking about signs on...
  2. Loyalist Dave

    Blanks Harvested for Black Powder

    And that pretty much covers this discussion about fixed ammo. LD
  3. Loyalist Dave

    Rough barn gun

    Yes I must agree with the others, that came out great. You should make a lot of meat with that. LD
  4. Loyalist Dave

    Heaviest Bullets For .50 Caliber 48" Twist

    The heaviest that I've used are the Hornady Great Plains bullets in 385 grains for .50 caliber. 28" barrel, and 80 grains of 3Fg. 1:48 twist Thompson Center, and 38" barrel, 1:48 twist in a Blue Ridge Hunter (Pedersoli Frontier) BOTH shot very well. I figured if a buffalo hunter can use a...
  5. Loyalist Dave

    WANTED WTB-.440" roundball mold, bag mold, traditional style.

    Moved and changed into a WANTED ad. LD
  6. Loyalist Dave

    Main Charge Powder in the Frizzen Pan

    Another vote for using the same powder for the main charge as in the pan. I "keep it simple". Works fine. LD
  7. Loyalist Dave

    Here is Why I Ended Up Here 1861 Springfield

    SO this is NOT where you post something you are going to sell. You know that but chose to try and dodge Forum Rules. NOT posting an asking price does not mean that you did not place a "For Sale" ad. You did not comply with a photo of the item along with a card or piece of paper showing your...
  8. Loyalist Dave

    Little Bro Tries The Holy Black

    PROGRESS REPORT So the several day hunt was not successful. My nephew who was also hunting apparently had a shot and missed. I don't know the ground well and have no idea if he was also using something in a side-lock or one of those infernal, modern things. I will be picking up my brother at...
  9. Loyalist Dave

    Ultra-Hi Miroku Japan

    Interesting NOTE the difference between your two sears and the adjustment screws, and your new rifle's sear with the adjustment screw. My lock sear looks like your previously owned lock sears, but your new sear looks wrong. So NOW I wonder if the factory put the wrong sear into the lock (or...
  10. Loyalist Dave

    Ultra-Hi Miroku Japan

    So that tiny screw is to adjust the trigger pull. It's supposed to block the sear from engaging fully into the full-**** notch. I've something similar on a CVA lock. ODD though as all of the other examples of such an adjustment screw, Including my own, were for single trigger systems, NOT for...
  11. Loyalist Dave

    When did small caliber rifles become a thing and why?

    I agree, but there are some misunderstandings about the time period. First it's NOT that the cost of lead and powder in Europe was much less than in America. It was true, however, that the availability and cost of lead and powder in Frontier areas, where the big game hunters were being...
  12. Loyalist Dave

    Revisiting hardtack

    Hike Saturday and Sunday without rations. On Monday they will taste good. 😇 LD
  13. Loyalist Dave

    About your hunting rifles

    Mine is very plain. Single trigger, no patchbox, no butt plate, no nose cap, no carving. LD
  14. Loyalist Dave

    Revisiting hardtack

    Those look good AND the recipe may be used to make "reactive" biodegradable targets for the range. Very nice for an event and better than clay pigeons in my opinion. Well guys as much as I LOVE Max Miller, in his video on Hardtack he goofed, and most of the ACW reenactors goof too, when they...
  15. Loyalist Dave

    Pedersoli announce a .54cal 'Hawken target rifle...

    Heck I don't need one of those. I can miss any target on the field that anybody chooses. LD
  16. Loyalist Dave

    Hello from NW Indiana

    Welcome. You will also want to take a look at out sister site Modern Muzzleloading Muzzleloading Forum which might have information for you on reloading black powder shells. However, I think The High Road forum may be a better bet. We don't discuss breech loading firearms even if the cartridge...
  17. Loyalist Dave

    Little Bro Tries The Holy Black

    I had more luck with the TC Maxi-Hunters, and patched round ball. The Maxi-Balls, not so much. Interesting LD
  18. Loyalist Dave

    Little Bro Tries The Holy Black

    So my Brother is off to his home in New Mexico. No idea how far outside of Albuquerque he is going with his son my nephew BUT, he is going for Mule Deer with our Dad's .54 T/C New Englander. He is planning on 80 grains of 3Fg and will be at the range tomorrow to see which shoots better, the...
  19. Loyalist Dave

    HOW TO MAKE A Corncob Pipe

    GREAT They are very easy to do once you get the first one done, and yes I buy mine in lots of 5 or ten, they are so inexpensive. Share some photos of you with the pipe at a show and the craft(s) that you demonstrate. I'm "stuck" in my house at my desk for a while doing busy work, that I can...
  20. Loyalist Dave

    Hello, I'm Scott

    Welcome Scott. I took down the photos, as the question more properly belongs in Firearms Identification, where you will get more in depth answers. LD
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