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  1. BlackRock52

    Shot Wiping

    There ya go -- best comment to topic. My own practice with a front stuffer is pop a cap to ensure blow hole open. No fouling shot. Wipe between shots and I get 3/4" group at 50 yards with iron sights. PRB .45 cal, prelubed & precut patch, 70 Gr ffg or pyrodex select....
  2. BlackRock52

    Shot Wiping

    If someone is wiping between shots why should that person do a fouling shot?
  3. BlackRock52

    Stuck Nipple

    Machinists did a penetrating oil showdown and the winner was 50/50 ATF/Acetone Here's a link to the chart and the ones tested (Includes Kroil) http://www.healey6.com/Technical/Penetrating%20Oil%20Showdown.pdf
  4. BlackRock52

    Stupid, stupid, stupid

    Witness marks have saved me more than once
  5. BlackRock52

    For Those who camp at Friendship Take Heed!

    "...blood sucking attorneys" is redundant
  6. BlackRock52

    TC 45 cal Hawken value

    That's why I bought mine. .50 nowhere to be found in '76 but local sporting goods store had one in a .45....still have it.
  7. BlackRock52

    First time with a .45 cal TC Hawken, advice wanted

    I have a T/C Hawken from the late 70's. Midwest hunting in woods not often >50 yards. At that distance she shoots 3/4" groups using 70 gr of pyrodex select using .440 PRB. Due to convenience, and they work for me, I have been using prelubed commercial patches. Barrel is 1:48 twist. I...
  8. BlackRock52

    TC 45 cal Hawken value

    I still have mine from that time frame. It's in good shape but my stock is nowhere near as nice a color. I love how she shoots though!! Were it mine at I'd be at $500 with a firm basement of $480. If the Gun Show option doesn't pan out or you decide to sell, please DM as my son would be...
  9. BlackRock52

    How safe is it to use lead round balls while hunting?

    I don't doubt it... Every foreign object in the human body gets covered by the body with a fibrous nearly impervious layer of tissue referred to as biofilm in order to "wall off" the item from and to protect the body from the foreign object. Similar thing happens with an abscess except in that...
  10. BlackRock52

    Powder charge. How much powder do you use.

    Old timer told me(Now a 71 year old timer) back in the late 70's to use 1.5 times the caliber. For my T/C Hawken .45 that's 67.5 gr and I use 2F Swiss with a PRB. (Twist is 1:48). I round up to 70 gr and she loves that load. I get 3/4" group at 50 yds consistently. When it warms up to more...
  11. BlackRock52

    Help Identifying Wood type

    Looks alot like Tiger Maple
  12. BlackRock52

    Midway

    In school I got a note from the professor that read --"U use 2 many abbrev" -- He made his point!!
  13. BlackRock52

    Haggis Day

    Kippered herring with some cheese on a Waverly cracker and a wee dram of whisky --nothing better. Except maybe the whisky by itself...
  14. BlackRock52

    Cabela's chaps my hide.

    I stand corrected. Though actually it was the Hague Declaration III in 1899. The 4 Geneva Conventions incorporated that statement in addition to their 64 provisions. As to the USA, I did learn we did NOT sign the part about expanding munitions so it does not apply to us. So much for...
  15. BlackRock52

    Cabela's chaps my hide.

    And it all went away with a whimper when all the government computer experts could NOT find a solution but a teenager wire head presented the solution...
  16. BlackRock52

    Cabela's chaps my hide.

    Exactly, Why does the Social Security Administration need 240,000 rounds of HP 9 MM??? Hollow point?!?!? It's prohibited by the Geneva Convention and we are signatories!!!
  17. BlackRock52

    Cabela's chaps my hide.

    When I was a kid there was a phone tree at school. If school closed early staff would call 2 parents in each grade and they called 2 who called 2, etc until all parents notified. Locally this exists in the form of a Walmart Ammo Text Tree. When ammo shows up (the stocking occurs at nite) and...
  18. BlackRock52

    Shotgun Part

    Found the Bradley Gunsight Company and Brownells carries most. They run $4.99 - $27.49 so 1 of each not an option. I'll give the set screw drawer a check to find the one I need. First I have to clear out a 3 ft snowbank at the end of my driveway -- a present from the city plow! Big snowfall...
  19. BlackRock52

    Shotgun Part

    Thx -- I'll give that a try --
  20. BlackRock52

    Shotgun Part

    Copy that -- this one definitely threaded
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