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    EBAY Muzzleloading Overloaded With Junk

    I use PicClick to search Ebay for double barrel shotgun parts constantly. Filters out and brings forth the available stuff by description. There are two TC wedge plates, wedges and screws for same, black finish listed. Not gimmes, not priced off the scale. Several ramrods, aftermarket and...
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    Squirrels.

    Did the .45 start out as a smooth bore? I don't remember any commercial smooth rifle here, except the TC .56 Renegade. Perhaps the offerings are different for places with different rules. Regardless-nice looking rifle, and a nice looking squirrel.
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    Dove Season is Upon Us

    Ah--Dove Wyatt Earp in the dutch oven. Or cooktop dove stew. Or just roast the little birds whole with long grained rice. The collared doves are a bit bigger, but they lack something in the culinary department. We are pretty thick with them this season, hopefully no cold snap to send them...
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    Dove Season is Upon Us

    To heck with the city limits. The only view of those you want to see is in your rear view mirror. Get yourself a 4wd birdmobile and go round up some doves.
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    Dove Season is Upon Us

    Well the LC Smith project will take me through the color hardening process one way or another, but I was hoping to skip it with this simple job. I guess I'll heat it, only needs to go 1/8 inch straight forward off the fence for now. If I destroy the colors I can put them back on while I am...
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    Dove Season is Upon Us

    My gun was made with stop--it sheared away first shot and was never heard from again. I had to fabricate this one working from the "hole" that was left behind. So, do you think I can fixture the offending hammer up and bend the nose back off the fence without snapping anything? I prefer to...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    And what does green cheese have to do with getting any percussion caps?
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    Dove Season is Upon Us

    Hey All Making a few last minute repairs and adjustments to the new to me Pedersoli, and my kit. I bought an Italian Zouave flask to go with the first BP double in 1976, and it has been in continuous use off and on since. In the interim, my wife got an original flask and hunting dog horn for...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    Being able to buy what you need/want online or locally in small quantities precludes the need to stock and hoard. I remember the 90's when Midway shipped free and we all had their number memorized. A new mold, specialty brass, reloading equipment, ML supplies were but a phone call away. The...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    There is a shortage of too much stuff. New pinfire shotshell cases. Paper shells in 2 1/2" 10,16,20, 28 and 410. Inexpensive brass for the recently obsoleted CF numbers. New brass for the obsolete RF numbers. Every outfit sells the same locks RE Davis, Chambers, L & R.. Every outfit sells...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    Poor old Ned tried to go straight all along, and still wound up swinging for his deeds. Must have looked like a bad guy.
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    DIY mold making.

    MSC Industrial Supply offers cast iron in shapes. The exact grades I do not know. Shooters the world over need to unite. The biggest most monstrous piece of propaganda we ever let slip here in the US was the "active shooter" label. An "active shooter", introduces young people to his sport...
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    DIY mold making.

    Meehanite, ductile cast iron cuts like butter. It is dirty stuff to machine because of the high carbon content, but it cuts accurately. When choosing a bullet mold material it seems we are searching for stability under changing heat conditions. You will find meehanite ductile castings in the...
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    DIY mold making.

    Well Aluminum gets hot fast, and it gets cool fast. It expands when it gets hot and it contracts when it gets cool. That means your cavity is changing a bit all the time. Meehanite is doing the same thing, just over a much slower and a more balanced curve. I have had poor luck with Lee...
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    DIY mold making.

    I stand corrected sir. I would go with the meehanite cast iron in preference to all other materials. Nothing as unstable under heating and cooling as aluminum is in general is going to make anything but a passable mold block. One other option I would like to try is soapstone blocks, properly...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    If ever it becomes necessary to go to take this next step, I intend to make up a punch and forming die set to go into the RockChucker and get a proper measuring and looking copper/brass cup from sheet material, then make up suitable fixtures to process 100 to a batch. This if the powers that be...
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    DIY mold making.

    I have not ventured into mold making as of yet, but I do possess the engineering and machining background to accomplish the whole process. Aluminum would be my last choice for block material, an appropriate cast iron would be the thing. You can buy a cast iron Lyman, or an aluminum Lee, among...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    There is an unmixed priming compound available now much preferable to any you will get from toy roll caps. The main issue people seem to be having is the dried compound crumbling out in storage. The solution to that I would think should come from the past, a disc of thinnest metallic foil...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    I do hope the 2000 pc. backordered caps come into stock, I will promptly place another 2000 pc. for #10's for the revolvers. The back ordered lot are Remington brand though, ordered before Remington went through their recent financial troubles, so we will see if they come through. And yes, we...
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    alternate material for flint in flintock

    We seem to be on the short list for flint here in Idaho also. I completed my first build while living in Central Arizona, a .32 flinter, I found that every other likely looking rock chip would spark it. There were literally beds of the stuff several feet wide to pick from, so no knapping...
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