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    Lyman 575-213 old vs new style in springfield 1861

    After ordering bullets, and shipping clearly playing havoc on them, I'm realizing I'm going to have to think about casting my own bullets. I have 100 575-213 new style bullets, some of which very likely aren't salvageable (including a couple that apparently were thrown at .590. My barrel gauged...
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    Minie Sizing, Before or After Lubrication?

    So do you think the .590 is salvageable at all? I guess you just see whether or not you have any grooves left after sizing and if you don't, then to the trash with it? I think someone told me lodgewood in a previous post. Should have listened then.
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    Minie Sizing, Before or After Lubrication?

    Perfect, that's what I expected. Yeah I have a pedersoli 1861 and that barrel pin gauged at .577. And those bullets came (apparently from a 575-213) at .580 up to even .590. So I've really got to take them down, and hopefully it'll fix the skirts as well. I had looked at the pedersoli sizer, but...
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    Minie Sizing, Before or After Lubrication?

    Watching videos, it looks like you can kick bullets out rather fast. I have a number of things that demand attention currently, but I'll make sure it ends up in my queue to get a furnace. Do you have any experience on the sizer front?
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    Minie Sizing, Before or After Lubrication?

    I'm willing to bet that at least some of the deformation is just from shipping. Hoping the sizer will remedy most of it. Some of them I think might have to be set aside for when I can start throwing them myself. Right now, a setup to cast is not in the monetary cards. Someday, someday...
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    Minie Sizing, Before or After Lubrication?

    What mold do you use? Some of these, the skirt is dented to about the centerline of the bullet. So I'm hoping the sizer will fix it. They're also, again, just too big.
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    Minie Sizing, Before or After Lubrication?

    Another day, another new-*****-to-black-powder-shooting question. Do you run bullets through a sizer before or after lubricating them? For context these are .58 caliber minies for use in a pedersoli springfield 1861. Barrel gauged at .577, so I'm going with .575 bullets to make sure if I'm...
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    How Often to Linseed Oil a Traditional Rifle Stock

    I'm definitely looking into this stuff. I'm currently using slip 2000 EWL (oh yeah, I know exactly how over the top that is) on the barrel and bore since I had it on hand and it's synthetic so it shouldn't gum up with black powder, and have a couple other slip 2000 black powder products on the...
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    How Often to Linseed Oil a Traditional Rifle Stock

    Barrel channel got some beeswax, but the lock mortise is open. It is a pedersoli, so I saw some wax suggestions. I'll look into those.
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    How Often to Linseed Oil a Traditional Rifle Stock

    Glad I hadn't put any on it. It's a pedersoli. I'll look into that wax! How often do you wax it?
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    How Often to Linseed Oil a Traditional Rifle Stock

    Okay so about twice a year. I just got the rifle, so maybe I won't give it that treatment just yet. Wait a good half year or a bit more.
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    How Often to Linseed Oil a Traditional Rifle Stock

    Pretty much what the title says, how often do you give your musket's stock a little TLC and give it a coat of linseed oil?
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    Apologies, it is a side lock. 1861 springfield repro. So from what you're saying, definitely a no go.
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    Like I said above, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people who ask them. And I got a little less stupid without having to make a mistake, which I call a win. If I don't know, I'm gonna ask. I've got a very high round count in modern firearms, but if I had to count how many times I've...
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    This is kind of what I figured, but I wanted to be sure in case it was something that you might need to actually go after, so you protected the threads. In theory though, it should never come out. But I wanted to ask to be sure.
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    This is about what I suspected, however I wanted to be sure. I'm fairly new to black powder. Like I mentioned to someone above, I was relating experience from modern firearms, which is to say that if you ignore the choke in your shotgun until a year later when you want to change it out, you're...
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    I didn't know if I needed to remove it hence I asked, and no I don't. I was relating experience (well, not personal, I learned from the failures of others) from modern firearms. Never take the chokes out of your shotgun until you need to, tell me how it goes. I wasn't sure if this was a similar...
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    This is what I was suspicious of. The reason I asked was to see if the threads needed to be treated at all before the gun was taken out and used. Happy to leave it alone.
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    So, when you get a new gun that has a threaded breech plug, do you take it out and do anything to it? Apply grease or anti-seize? Or do you just let it be, and not think about its existence unless you really need to access the bore of the gun from the breech end?
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    1861 Springfield Repro First Time Clean and Protectant Question

    Well, it's real easy for me. Pin gauged my bore. .577 fits, .578 doesn't fit. So .575 minies it is! Hadn't cleaned the barrel just yet, and it is a + pin gauge, and .578 ALMOST fit, but not quite. So I think .575 minies will be a very happy size for this gun.
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