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    Unplugging patent breech? Loaded rifle…

    I scrubbed it out with a new .22 phosphor bronze brush. Mop and soggy patches, cleaner ran out the nipple. The “oil” was T-17 that melted, was 98*F outside when I cleaned it. Swabbed it out with 91% rubbing alcohol before loading, forgot to clear the nipple/breech with a couple caps before loading.
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    Unplugging patent breech? Loaded rifle…

    I did not, never have to with the ROA, so didn’t even think of it for the rifle. Completely spaced the odd travel path in a patent breech. I’ll try to pop it out with some Swiss 3F. If that doesn’t work, I’ll just pull the ball. Thanks for the reminder.
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    Unplugging patent breech? Loaded rifle…

    Deep cleaned my TC .50 “Hawken” last week. Had fluid running out of the nipple. Dried, lightly oiled, kept muzzle down. Got it out this evening. Loaded in the house, went out back, brand new tin of CCI #11 Magnum caps. Triple 7 3F 100gr load, lubed patch and ball (noidea how old, was white). 5...
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    Storing rifles prior to shooting?

    I move it from the room with a/c to a part of the house that deos not. At least a week before, but in the case of my .50, 3 months before hunting season. Had it downstairs for a deep cleaning and some stock touch up/dress up. Going to move the “using box” downstairs as well. Powder, caps...
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    Who among us are PIPE smokers?

    It was a jet black grown in Connecticut. Usually used for all leaf cigars. Absolutely zero stem or seed particles, no flavorings. Last place I found it was on the Muckleshoot reservation in Auburn WA. Very cool temperature smoke, no “brush fire” effect like you get from cheap tobacco. Used to...
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    A recent vivid lucent daydream...

    I could actually see that as I read it… Just getting back into caplock rifles. I remember my first trip to a rondy shoot (1986) like it was yesterday. Now I’m the grizzled old timer, right down to needing a cane pretty frequently. I wore out a library copy of Sam’s book back then, I would turn...
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    Here is What I Love About Muzzleloading

    I have a pretty decent collection of modern SHTF guns. If I’m on a contract harvest (feral hog thinning) I use those. All eating size pigs are hauled to a private processing plant and distributed as food relief in the county where harvested. Hunting on my farm? Ruger Old Army loaded with a 40gr...
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    load question

    Shoots cleaner than 2F, more complete combustion due to the finer particles. I normally use 3F in a revolver, prefer 4F as it is more historically correct. Historic pistol (cap and ball revolver)powders were 4F or even finer. 2F is more of a shotgun or cartridge powder, but works fine in most...
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    TC .45 Question

    Previous owner, could be his wife, daughter, the gun’s name or even the owner’s name. Inherited a TC .50 Hawken last year. Getting ready to stamp my late friend’s name, date of birth and date of death on it. I added the brass nails around the buttplate, patchbox and wrist like he wanted to do...
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    What Remington 1858 to Buy?

    I can shake a .452 right out of the chamber. Can “seat” them with a pencil.
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    What Remington 1858 to Buy?

    The ROA is a Whitney with coil springs and a larger bore. A true .45 (.457) versus a .44 (.451). 1858 cylinder notches, retained double pin compound action loading ram. Spiller and Burr was a brass framed 58 clone scaled down to .36, currently only available in a Traditions blister pack starter...
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    Wads Vs Lube Vs Paper Cartridges

    My standard goofing off load is 5-10gr of 3F topped with a 30gr Pyrodrek pellet. Add lubed felt wad, ball, quick smear of T17, cap it and make some noise. My serious business load is 35-40gr of Swiss or T7 3F, .457 swaged round ball, as much T17 or Bore Butter as can be forced into the...
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    .36 vs. .44 "Stopping Power"

    I’ve compared my .45 Old Army against a modern .36 revolver. The 7.5” barrel ROA can put all 6 in a paper plate at 100 yards. The 2” .36 (.38Spl) is good to 7 yards, tops. Too short of a sight picture. .45 will hole a 5 gallon bucket of roofing tar, the long way. .36 will hole the same bucket...
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    Pietta 1858 New Army Revolver .44 Cal 8" barrel

    Missed out on a really clean Pietta .44 a couple years ago, wanted to get my ROA a “baby brother”. And then was okay with that. 1 .44/45 is plenty, the “baby brother” needs to be a Spiller and Burr, preferably a pair of them. Unless I luck into a clean Leach and Rigdon… 🤔 For giggles, 20-25gr of...
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    Pedersoli owners, speak up

    I do similar to that when our ambient humidity turns bulk powder into a block of powder in the can. Poplar dowel, plastic can. My Old Army doesn’t care if it is dust or chunks. If it fits in the chamber, that gun will ignite it.
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    Squirrel Hunting Attire

    Whatever is comfortable. I drive around on a tractor mowing a lot, so the squirrels are accustomed to normal farming attire. Same with the deer and other animals. If I wear “hunting clothes”, they all scatter and hide because something “different” is occuring.
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    which gun? investarm hawken carbine?

    How do you think it would fit a 5’2” 100-105# female whose “fat” clothes are a size 4? She’s tiny, but wants to try a front stuffer. My smallest rifle is a TC Hawken .50, as factory issued. Kinda big for her…
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    Walnut board

    There is some fair curl by the large crack. A nice pattern around the large knot, but also some pretty obvious punk wood. Going to drop a decent sized black walnut this winter. Very twisted up trunk, with large forks. Will chainsaw mill it as 12/4 slabs. Stump will be cut at 48” above the...
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    Who among us are PIPE smokers?

    I have a couple 30+ year old briars, and a century + old meerschaum. Can’t find decent, let alone good pipe tobacco in my area. I’ll smoke cheap (Backwoods) cigars at SASS gatherings. The heavy hitters always offer me good cigars, but since I can’t afford to reciprocate… Going to grow my own...
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    4F, Its Not Just For Priming Anymore

    4F is phenomenal in revolvers. Was not worth a hoot in a caplock “horse pistol” I had over 30 years ago. Back then could get Goex easily or made my own. Only “holy black” I would/will buy now is Swiss. Nothing else compares, it is hotter than Triple 7.
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