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    Another discussion on stock dimensions

    6’2” 230#, all of my frequent/comfortable use long guns have 14.5-15” from leading edge of trigger to back of buttplate. My SASS 12g has a newest patent date of 1905, wears a Limbsaver pad over the factory buttplate to add 1-1.5” to the butt. I actually prefer to shoot deep crescent butt guns...
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    Conicals for revolvers

    I shoot an early (1972, first year) ROA. It likes .457 ball or .452 conicals. I cheat and buy plain lead .45acp lrn meant for SASS Wild Bunch shooting. Load with 3F Swiss, 3F T7 or 4F black (when I can find some). Have trsted both projectiles in rank feral boars taken during quarterly clean out...
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    Improving velocity consistency

    I get the same POI from 3F Swiss and 3F Triple 7. Same setting on the same clear measure, tapped to settle the powder at 30-60-90 marks. .50 TC Hawken and .54 Lyman GPR with Hornady swaged round balls and 100% cotton shirt material. Targets set at 20-40-60-80 yards. Marked lane goes to 160yds...
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    Just about fed up…

    Replacement standard #11 and musket cap nipples are ordered. I also switched cap tins. The CCI 11 Magnums were leaving a waxy residue on the drum and plugging up the nipple after 5 caps.
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    Fixed? .54 GPR

    I “think” I figured it out. Maybe? Took it out yesterday. Boiling water cleaned. Dried with denatured alcohol. Loaded 90gr of 3F Swiss. Fired perfectly. Repeated without cleaning. 3x Let it sit overnight. Loaded with my standard 90gr 3F. Popped the cap, nothing. Pulled the nipple, charged flash...
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    I have to rethink the spare cylinder idea

    Active Duty SeaBee, mid 1990s. Our armory still had full auto M16A2E3, M79s in addition to our M203s, M60s, M14s, 1911s keeping our Beretta 9s company, 2 “outlawed” M1897 12g trench guns and 870s shared a rack… Specialty units are still issued “obsolete” weapons. From 1865 war ending until at...
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    My First Black Powder Firearm!

    Cabela’s/Bass Pro normally has Remington #10 caps year round. CCI 10s fit and fire fine too. Ruger Old Army with aftermarket hard stainless steel nipples. Have fun with your new toy. Have fired hundreds of rounds out of my ROA, going to add a brace of each Memphis produced CSA revolver replicas...
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    Stock material

    Curly, burl and/or quilted are -NEVER- firewood grade. Gunstocks in 1 or 2 piece, revolver and jam-o-matic grip scales, ramrods, knife handle scales, instrument tuning pegs, small carvings, turned beads (bits available online to drill/carve)… I worked at a custom cabinet shop. Curly maple was...
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    Show N Tell your first MLer rifle

    First shot was a generic Hawken at Scout camp in the 80s. Could have been any of the brass patch box offerings available back then. First owned was a kit single shot “horse pistol”. First percussion revolver was/is a competitive shooter reworked Old Army. First year (1972) with the brass Super...
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    Just about fed up…

    Added some 3F via pulling the nipple. Fired off pretty as can be. Same load but with a .490 fired fine out of the TC. Cleaned both as normal, flushed the nipples/flash channels with carburetor cleaner. Light swab with avacado oil to combat rust. Will load and shoot both this weekend. Both are...
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    Just about fed up…

    Same cap tin fires the TC .50 using the same powder/charge, same patch material, same lube. Leaning towards a partially blocked channel or a bad nipple. I can run a wire cored stiff bristled nylon brush through the channel, fire a cap and it seems fine. But load up and sometimes it fires...
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    Just about fed up…

    100% cotton.
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    Just about fed up…

    Haven’t been there in years. They never had what I was looking for. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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    Just about fed up…

    Grew up in the wet side shadow of Mt Rainier. Right outside Ft Lewis.
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    Just about fed up…

    T17 (blue goo)is a paste patch lube that smells like toothpaste and lanolin. Stable in our normal summer/fall temps. Tee shirt patch is minute of 3# coffee can at 80 yards. Good enough for the woods I’m currently hunting for feral hogs. They are normally not here, Hurricane Helene out riders...
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    Just about fed up…

    Popped 2 magnum caps, both moved a sheet of paper on a string 6” from the muzzle. Flash channel is clear. Going to try the TC .50 next week. Same powder, same patch, same lube, .490 swaged ball. Same cap tin so caliber is the only variable.
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    Just about fed up…

    Did that, 2 magnum caps, both moved the paper 6” from the muzzle.
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    Just about fed up…

    Powder went in the barrel. I use one of the clear, swinging funnel top plastic measures. Tapped as it is filled to settle the powder and hold more. Funnel tip into the barrel once full. Powder cainster also has a funnel cap for filling the measure. Has been firing fine until yesterday. Same...
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    Just about fed up…

    .54 GPR yet again failed to fire. Clean and dry bore. Nylon brush through the fire channel. Popped a couple caps, paper moved. 90gr Swiss 3F, fresh CCI #11 Magnum cap (went off fine), t-shirt patch with T/C T-17 blue goo lube, .530 round ball. Tapped the stock to get powder into the channel...
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    Confederate Revolvers

    That is the 1 flown at our place. Lisa’s GG Grandfather was 4th TN Infantry, CSA. Unit built Island 10, Forts Wright, Randolph and Pillow. Shiloh veteran, Davis’ personal military courier, wounded in action, captured/exchanged. Surrendered under Taylor’s command. A bunch of his possessions are...
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