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    Pistol for edc?

    Just for starters....bp handguns leave a lot to be desired from the safety stand point...that is, integral safeties, that are of course built into every modern EDC firearm, from the 1911 to the simplest of modern revolvers. You certainly do not want to carry a bp firearm with a full cylinder...
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    What do I need to begin casting my own bullets?

    Wheel weights nowadays have little lead in them. Really, not too much...like everything it is as complicated as you want to make it. Lead pot (for years dad used a little iron pot and his coleman stove), appropriate mold, dipper unless you get a bottom feed pot, a thermomeer is useful but not...
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    Musket Cap Source?

    Graff and Sons is a great outfit to deal with. I have ordered several thousand from them recently.
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    Build advice

    I have also read several times...dont remember where, that stocks would be placed in a tub of heated linseed oil for a couple weeks....I think it was for Brown Bess stocks, but I have also heard that they used a mixture.
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    Hope I can help

    Cool. Welcome!
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    Simple question…..

    I am still relatively new to flinters...three years or so, but have been ML for ....four plus decades, and love my history. Many journals document waiting out the rain/wet weather for battles and hunting (Even the indians with their bows...rain was rough on the bow strings). In light drizzles I...
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    Hello from central Ny

    Welcome from the Tug HIll!
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    T/C 1000+ Replacement?

    Even at room temp., Mink Oil is solid...I nuke it to prelube my patches. BB I can just dab on my fingers.
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    Colonial .54 touch hole

    A good rule of thumb is not to try to fix something until you KNOW it is broken. You certainly didnt do any harm, but maybe no goo. I highly doubt you can lose enough powder out the touch hole to worry about....black powder is very forgiving....not at all like smokeless, where you would be very...
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    Hershel House

    Sorry to hear. I think I would have very much liked to have met him. I first became aware of him through the Fox Fire books (#5) back in the seventies. It would probably be difficult to measure his infuence on our sport.
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    T/C 1000+ Replacement?

    I also like bore butter for patch lube....easy to handle, works, minimal fouling....but I (and I think most BB users) totally ignore anything about...seasoning. I am currently using Tracks Mink oil, and it is ok for a patch lube....ok. it is very stiff, and in cold weather (near freezing and...
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    Build advice

    The old saying for using linseed oil....rub it in every day for a week, every week for a month, then monthly for a year, then renew yearly. As I recall.
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    Dried meat

    Salt is one of the most common minerals in the world....oceans are full of it. Natural licks were well known and utilized very early on in settled areas. Upstate NY has tons of it....literally salt pools, the reason for Syracuse area being developed in the 1600s...Saratoga, mineral spring...
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    WANTED Most basic (read cheap yet with plugs) powder horn from Canada idealy (no duty fees)

    Order up a horn and in an afternoon or less you will have just what you want.. you can find them on Ebay or "Powderhorns and MOre"......I buy old beat up horns (not vintage/antique) on ebay cheap, and reuse them.
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    Crazy collectibles

    Ball bags for each caliber. From what I have read (memoirs, etc) it was very common to just drop your extra balls in your shooting bag, as the every day guy likely only cast up enough for his immediate demands. Same thing with powder horns....I want a horn to go with each bag, but really only...
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    Your Flintlock History

    Dad wanted a CVA flintlock pistol kit for xmas. He was like a kid when he opened it up, and was pleased as peach working on it. That was the first ML or flintlock I ever shot. He passed forty years ago, but as time went by my interest in shooting steered more to the single shot. In the mid...
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    Anyone have photos of finished Colonials with barrel and lock left in the white?

    Patience, grasshopper. It has only been a day….check my posts from about two years ago. I left my Colonial .58 with maple stock in the white. It is frequently done. And worse case, you can always refinish later….bur I won’t.
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    Hi there, from NC

    Whatcha building? It dont exist if it dont got pics!
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    Bacon Grease

    Slick down yer hair. Bug repellant. Girl repellant. (if thats yer thing).
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    Kibler SMR mysteries

    Another thing....most having been covered here. When you are shooting for groups...are you bench resting your rifle, or shooting off hand? Even the best off hand shooters can have a tough time seeing a difference in a group size. Shoot from a bench, with the barrel firmly supported on a padded...
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