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  1. Dr5x

    Combustible Envelope Cartridges

    WE HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING WHAT THE ORIGINAL RATES OF TWIST WERE. WHY WOULD THAT BE OF INTEREST. KNOWING AMATEUR GUN SMITHS WOULD VARY WIDELY FROM SMITH TO SMITH.IS THERE A BELIEF THAT BECAUSE THOSE RATES WERE OLD TIME THEY MUST BE BETTER. THIS IS A BELIEF THAT GUN SMITHS ARE GETTING DUMBER...
  2. Dr5x

    TC Hawken Discontinued

    I HAD WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE WITH A TC HAWKEN KIT. COULD YOU NAME SOME OF THE OTHER KITS AND THEIR PRICES.PRICE IS A FREQUENT LIMITER ON THE DECISION TO INVEST IN A KIT. DUTCH
  3. Dr5x

    Combustible Envelope Cartridges

    YOU SEEM TO KNOW A WHOLE HECK OF A LOT ABOUT THE OLD COLTS REVOLVERS. I HAVE TO BELIEVE YOU ARE SEVERAL HUNDRED YEAS OLD WHAT AN INCREDIBLE FUND OF KNOWLEDGE. I DOUBTED THE ORIGINAL CHANBBERS WERE TAPERED AS THAT WOULD HAVE COMPLICATED MANUFACTURE AND WOULD SERVE NO PURPOSE. I AM GLAD TO KNOW...
  4. Dr5x

    TC Hawken Discontinued

    I HVE NO TROUBLE WHATEVER IN REMEMBERING THINGS FROM THE PAST. IT IS FLAWLESS. MY DAUGHTER SAYS IT RESEMBLES THE PAST THAT I AM REMBERING BUT I HAVE IT ALL WRONG. KIDS! DUTCH
  5. Dr5x

    MODERN POWDERS IN MUZZLELOADERS

    I'M SORRY. I GUESS SWISS COULD BE CALLED A MODERN POWDER. I MEANT THE SMOKELESS POWDERS USED IN TODAY'S CARTRIDGE RIFLES. DUTCH
  6. Dr5x

    MODERN POWDERS IN MUZZLELOADERS

    FOR THE ***** who doesn't feel black powder has enough kick I suggest he review the photos taken at Gettysburg right after the battle. Muzzleloader barrels were made to handle the pressures created by the slower burning old time black powder. The modern powders are quicker and more powerful than...
  7. Dr5x

    Combustible Envelope Cartridges

    I WOULD AGREE. IF THE CHAMBERS ARE STRAIGHT THE CARTRIGES SHOULD ALSO BE STRAIGHT. WHAT PUZZLES ME IS WHEN DID PPER CARTRIGES POP INTO VIEW? WHEN I WAS INVOLVED WITH A REVOLVER WE WOULD POUR THE POWDER DIRECTLY INTO TH CHAMBER, SQUEEZE THE ROUND BAL ON TOP OF THAT, MAYBE SMEAR SOME GREASE OVER...
  8. Dr5x

    Don't Get Your Knickers In A Twist

    IN ALL ENTERPRISES, NOT JUST SHOOTING, 10% WILL SUCCEEDAND THE REMAINING90% WILL SCORE IN LESSER DEGREES.%70 -%90 WILL QUALIFY AND THE REST WON;T DO WELL AT ALL. THIS APPLIES TO SCHOOL WORK, FINANCIAL SUCCESS.I DON'T THINK I'M IN THAT TOP 10%. I HAVE NOTICED THIS WHEN TEACHING AND FINND IT...
  9. Dr5x

    Is 70 grains 3f enough umph

    Loyalist Dave, According to your chart there isn't all that much difference between 80 and 100 grains of powder. If my weak eyes read that right. The foster the ball/bullet the greater the resistance of the air. Traveling through some very high ground in Wyoming , putting you hand out a car's...
  10. Dr5x

    Is 70 grains 3f enough umph

    1855 at Harper's Ferry... Did you work there? I just had a hazel memory involving the middle 40's of the 19th century. Dutch.
  11. Dr5x

    Is 70 grains 3f enough umph

    When did the French officer Minie invent the mini ball? I think it was in the 1840's Please correct me on that. It had a short life, very big in the 1860's conflict bur was soon replaced by the essentially shirtless bullet. A flintlock shooter who feels the use of caps is too modern yet shoots...
  12. Dr5x

    Is 70 grains 3f enough umph

    I keep getting reports that the best charge usually comes down to the Old Timer's rule of a grain and a half of water you are shooting for each caliber. This would put .50'd at 75 grains plus four or five grains more. People who hunt will frequently use a lower charge when shooting targets. I...
  13. Dr5x

    Best method of working up a load

    I think, just a guess perhaps, that going back and forth between Muzzleloaders and the other method designed for the lazy can cause a slowness in developing accuracy with the muzzleloaders. Just a thought. I do know that trying to work up a winning load on several MLs at the same time will have...
  14. Dr5x

    Best method of working up a load

    THIS FOR SOME REASON IS A DIFFICULT POINT TO MAKE.Even I, brilliant person that I am, had to make a model on paper to make it sink in. If asked today there is that stupid pause while I have stop and remember that model I made back in the '70's. Dutch Schoultz
  15. Dr5x

    Best method of working up a load

    Grizz, The problem is all previous experience is with cartridge rifles that, out of the box, they shoot about as well as they will ever shoot. A muzzleloader is NOT AT ALL like that. You have to fuss with the variables till It is hitting where you aim. I had trouble coaching trying to make that...
  16. Dr5x

    Best method of working up a load

    I have NO experience with Swiss powder as it wasn't available when I was still shooting, I understand it is a bit peppier than Goes. Your 80 grains of whatever for your .50 calibers bears out my old timers rule of a grain and a half for each caliber plus maybe 5 more grains. exactly. If pillow...
  17. Dr5x

    Who Is The Better Shot?

    This proposed contest has been cancelled. I didn't realize Bambi is facing the same quality weapons as is Mustaph ben Kid'n. Dutch
  18. Dr5x

    Best method of working up a load

    Bugma I jusent on my eBook but to more quickly answer your question.Use a grain and a half for each caliber for calibers .45 and above. About grain for caliber with the smaller calibers. Your idea about using a thicker patch material that, with the lead of the lead ball will be extruded into the...
  19. Dr5x

    Who Is The Better Shot?

    I GUESS THE WORLD HAS PASSED ME BY WHILE I WAS CONCENTRATING ON GROWING OLD AND ESSENTIALY BLIND, THERE WAS NO MIDDLE EASTERN WAR BACK THEN. SINCE THAT TIME THE ARMES INDUSTRY HAS DEVOTED ITSELF TO DEVELOPING RIFLES THAT WILL NAIL Mustapha Ben Kid'n ..AT 800 OR MORE YARDS. In my rather fixed...
  20. Dr5x

    Who Is The Better Shot?

    Those are amazing targets and they both support my ideas about modern rifles at longer ranges.. Both were fired in 2014 and I can see why you saved them. What I want from a reloader is 5 shots fired at 50 yards. Can you help me on that? Dutch Schoultz
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