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  1. DementedMindOfJac

    How many muzzleloaders have you built

    Now where do we go from here, ma'am?
  2. DementedMindOfJac

    How many muzzleloaders have you built

    What? Do you know how close to the edge you are right now? You are on the road to having racks line the walls, two plastic garbage cans in the corner of your man-cave, one full of stocks, one barrels. Cigar boxes with parts on every flat surface... turn back. There's still time...
  3. DementedMindOfJac

    Kibler has announced a Hawken Kit in the works.

    Not me. I take the low road when I get on my high horse.
  4. DementedMindOfJac

    The Romance of Flintlocks

    Pretty much my story except my Da gave me a Gecado 25 (Diana traded as Gecado. Sanctions and all that.) For my first frontstuffer I traded a .303 No.4 Mk 1 and I got the best of the deal. The country I was living in emptied their arsenals of WWII stuff and I bought it for the equivalent of...
  5. DementedMindOfJac

    The Romance of Flintlocks

    I started with a .50 percussion DP Frontier that had a bent hammer. I bought it for the stock, very flamey Maple. I removed the drum and screwed in a liner. For the K&R Ketland lock I had to inlet the stock a little bit. I'll be replacing the barrel with a custom in Jan-Feb when my turn in line...
  6. DementedMindOfJac

    Priming Powder, 4F or ?

    I'm a fair-weather shooter. I got badly hurt in '10 and inclement weather messes up my joints. I can't see much of a difference with the ignition speed but the 3f might be a bit brighter (not sure how to explain) and the groups are a bit looser. Might be imagination, peculiarity of my specific...
  7. DementedMindOfJac

    Kibler has announced a Hawken Kit in the works.

    Yes. Way I see there's 2 ways to get there. Cut it like that from a billet or forge-weld the rib. Nobody with the skill and tools to do it has the time. Crazy amount of work is an understatement. If someone is willing, you will have to cross his palm with much gold.
  8. DementedMindOfJac

    Kibler has announced a Hawken Kit in the works.

    Because they rely on handwritten contemporary sources in dusty archives to find out what they can about a Hawkin. Eye kleened the haw kin wif a botil of likker eat was so foult.
  9. DementedMindOfJac

    How fast can BP revolvers be reloaded?

    Every feud and range war was long on ambush and raid and short on fast-draw artists. The fast-draw at High Noon is merely a Hollyweird extension of the Penny Dreadfuls. The good guy out-drawing the BG, but only winging him, then getting saved by the cry of the Gentle Maiden as he turns his back...
  10. DementedMindOfJac

    What makes a good patch knife?

    I have never liked folding knives. Swiss Army knife bit me as a kid. This is my EDC working knife with the lanyard so I can attach it to my wrist so I can leave it dangle while I use that hand. This is a cheap(ish) Schrade with a 2 1/2" blade made out of D2 toolsteel. It serves very well as a...
  11. DementedMindOfJac

    How fast can BP revolvers be reloaded?

    Yes, I think you have a point. On the Colts, the most expensive part would most likely have been the cylinder due to the anti-patent scrollwork engraved on it. I have no doubt that there were presentation models made in fancy compartmented display cases that contained a spare, but historically...
  12. DementedMindOfJac

    How fast can BP revolvers be reloaded?

    This is not something I would advise. Not for any flavor bear in North America. BP just cannot generate the velocities I'd be comfortable with. Smallest backup I'll advise is 454 Casul, but I'd rather have another feller with 12ga slugs. Anyone ever heard of the formula to calculate foot-pound...
  13. DementedMindOfJac

    What table top display stands do you recommend for multiple muzzleloaders?

    I start on the walls. The flat surfaces quickly get taken up with cigar boxes full of small tools, parts, and items that might have come from Cain's first bushwhacking or else is William Tell's original apple. Priceless artifacts beyond the scope of "what in tarnation is that?"
  14. DementedMindOfJac

    How fast can BP revolvers be reloaded?

    Yup, sure is. Called the Tennessee reload. Some cavalrymen in WWCivil, carried up to 6 revolvers.
  15. DementedMindOfJac

    Buffalo bullets

    Yup. They sure did. Good bullets though. Shot them with a DP .45 Pennsylvania back when I still hunted. Personally, I found the cost prohibitive for target shooting.
  16. DementedMindOfJac

    What if question

    First hunt I went on I was 16 going after Kudu on the Highveld in South Africa. My Askari (what they call the Zulu guides) was an old grandfather who gave me more sage advice than I deserve, probably. His 2 BIG rules: 1) Take what you need, double up and add 1. Goes for food, water, ammo and...
  17. DementedMindOfJac

    L&R lock mainspring

    ^^^ They good folks. I converted a percussion Pedersoli Frontier to flint. The L&R lock is superior to the original.
  18. DementedMindOfJac

    Steel vs Brass frame differences?

    That is true. However it is wiser to do it and not talk about it. Hiding it in your Liberty safe might not work. Sure, I know it's legal. Does the ATF though?
  19. DementedMindOfJac

    Leaving Rifle Loaded

    On general principles, it's unloaded. Found a Investarms Hawkin in a 2nd hand store that proved to be loaded when I put the ramrod down. That was around 2015. Gave $40 for it and cleared the barrel in my backyard with the first cap. Tried to capture the ball but 5gal bucket full of water and...
  20. DementedMindOfJac

    Leaving Rifle Loaded

    Bunch of folks went to a whole bunch of trouble to unload a coastal gun that had been sitting with a cannonball down it's throat for over 100 years. The powder burned well enough for them to figure the gun would have fired. Or exploded. Not sure about coastal battery default settings.
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