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    How clean is your bore?

    Have to unsieze a fully locked up 870 next week when I get back. Our “armorer” “cleaned” it in a parts washer, and then pickled it in WD40… 🤣😂 My BP arms get scrubbed with Windex or windshield washer fluid. Then a course with BP spec cleaner. And then lubed with warm T17, lard or tallow. Before...
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    Hey Britsmoothy, 4F powder

    I got my powder recipe from an old Foxfire book. Made my first batch in 1991, at college.
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    Loading technique for hunting

    Patch, healthy bead of T17, ball, pull sides of patch over ball, wrap end with thread. Looks like a smurf blue dumpling. Loads easy, shoots clean. Accuracy was decent at 60yds over 90gr of 3F Swiss and 90gr of 3F Triple 7. Minute of 1qt Powerade bottle. I use dry rotted thread, shoots like a...
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    Hey Britsmoothy, 4F powder

    4F in my ROA is an absolute joy. Fast, clean and accurate. Too bad it is so hard to find. I have enough components to make a small batch, but it isn’t very consistent. Can’t get alder here, have to settle for willow.
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    Osage Orange for ramrods?

    Have a hatchet head hung on an osage shoot. Literally growing the head into the handle.
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    Unique piece of Sugar Maple

    Mostly seen it in 2 piece or half stocks. Finding a suitable modern rifle blank is nigh on impossible. Was going to restock a Canadian Centennial src in it, but suitable billets were worth more than the gun…
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    Should I or should I not?

    My late friend rarely fired any of his guns. I inherited them all last year, along with his 4 Drifter motorcycles, land and German/French languages trained German Shepherd. The bike that runs, get ridden. Removed his “tacticool” folding stock, added a hunting stock, and hog hunt with his SKS...
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    Finishing a walnut stock...

    The old bottle, other than going amber, works fine on small projects. IF the humidity is stable. Will likely cut it with Starbrite Premium Golden Teak Oil and a bit of thinner as a good soak in oil for base coats. I like lighter colored stocks.
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    Unique piece of Sugar Maple

    Quilted, with some very minor birds eye. I grew up using quilted maple a LOT in the Pacific NW. It has the potential to make a phenomenal stock, but you need to be very careful working it. Tends to chip out, tear and/or have soft pockets. Think burl. If that was mine, would saturate it it with a...
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    Osage Orange for ramrods?

    It flexes even just a hand width above the muzzle.
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    Osage Orange for ramrods?

    The weak rod is the factory Interarm issued oil finished mystery wood. Only “problem” with Osage is it outgasses while turning from Mt Dew yellow to ochre as it dries. It stinks, bad. Oh, it also sparks, and eats chisels.
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    Osage Orange for ramrods?

    Have a perfectly straight wind killed bois d’arc that will be split for bow staves. Thinking that the narrow “scrap” splits might make servicable ramrod billets. If you have not used it, the wood wears like iron. Anvil stable, and twice as tough. I already use small scraps in my traditional...
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    Saw something weird. don't know where to post this

    I know it is sacrilege, but… Add 15-35gr by volume of 3F, anything other than Pyrodrek P (most likely named P because its residue smells like an unmucked estrus mare’s stall). Drop in a .50/50 or .44/30 pellet, end orientation is made moot by your 3F kicker. Uneducated but well meaning friends...
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    Finishing a walnut stock...

    Just had the same issue with Tru-Oil on a fairly nice supposedly walnut stock. 3rd coat took over a week to cure up enough to handle. 4th coat was applied, rubbed in and ready for a 5th coat within 4-5 hours. Same bottle for the last 3 coats. Dark amber versus the usual clear. No dyes or...
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    3F in a .54?

    The .54 is poa at 60yds from 90gr Swiss 3F. Next test, same load in Triple 7. 60 yards is all I’m comfortable with using open irons. My eyes used to handle up to 200yds open iron with a .30wcf src, long before I needed bifocals. 👍🏻
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    Got the plugged breech to fire…

    .50 TC Hawken. Finally had a chance to get back on it. Piece of cake. Pulled the nipple, drizzled in some Swiss 3f. Replaced nipple, cleaned off the flash cup, took it out back. First try, load successfully fired. Main charge was 100gr of 3F T7 under an ancient (ACW veteran’s hunting supply) prb...
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    need help with 44 cal muzzleloaded pistol loading

    Okay, that was Friday, this is Sunday… Clean it again on Monday. Including pulling the percussion nipple and running a couple pipe cleaners through it. If the cleaning patch comes out clean the first time, you are out maybe 15 cents and 5 minutes. If it comes out iffy/funky, keep going until it...
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    black powder pellets

    The friend who left me the .54 GPR would use 15-30gr of loose and a .50/50 pellet (or 2). He was happy with those combos. T7 pellets with a 3F kicker is entertaining. Pyrodrek pellets with a 3F kicker shoot alright, but stink and can be tricky to clean. He shot his .50 TC Hawken with 35gr...
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    3F in a .54?

    These are the replies I was hoping for. Revolvers I’m fairly proficient. Modern rifles/shotguns, always qualify as an expert. BP long guns I freely admit I’m rusty. Thank you.
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    Strange Day for Me in the Woods.

    I’m 52, took my last buck in 2018. Had the neighbors’ stock dog blood trail him, right into the pond… 2 hours, a rope-paddle-jonboat later… All that work, for meat I gave away. I don’t eat venison, have never liked it. No problem killing vermin: coyotes, groundhogs, tree rats, feral pigs. Paid...
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