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    Knives of members of Voyage of Discovery?

    I am rereading what I believe is the best book of its kind - mostly because I am unaware of another book on the topic - Feasting and Fasting with Lewis & Clark: A Food and Social history of the Early 1800s, by Leandra Zim Holland. Mrs. Holland identifies knives for trading with Indians that...
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    Stability Calculations

    I'm interested. Why can you not hunt western Montana? You may PM me if you prefer.
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    Stability Calculations

    While I have never hunted with RBs, Gene Gordner will complete the first of a matched pair of English-style 72s sometime this spring. I have purchased a Lyman .715-inch RB mold and intend to work with Gene to determine whether the rifle and I can be efficient. If we can, I suspect I will change...
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    What kind of lead for molding conicals?

    In my .72-caliber rifles I cast 30:1. A small amount of tin causes complete fill of the 775-grain conical's large cavity with close to zero rejects. Whether tin would provide similar assistance when used in smaller bullets, dunno. Hope this helps.
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    Stability Calculations

    I have had excellent results for my .72-caliber rifles 1:72 twist. I have a built-to-order 775-grain conical whose accuracy/consistency is clover leaves at 25 and 50 yards, "in the black" at 85 yards - the farthest I have shot with any of the 72s. The accuracy testing occurred from a bench...
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    Round ball verses conical

    Regarding stability of conicals, nearly all depends upon length of projectile and rate of twist. Greenhill's Formula was based upon an artillery shell traveling at 1600 fps. You may use it for conicals' stability with fairly good reliablity - provided you intend to use "full power" loads. In...
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    Best book on F/I war

    You might take a look at Allen Eckert's (Spelling???) book. Also, I recently bought White Devil by Stephen Brumwell, subtitled A True Story of War Savagery and Vengence in Colonial America. Hope these help.
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    Percussion cap availability

    This may be wonderful news for you. On the Shiloh Rifles Forum John Bly reports that Jim Kirkland of Schuetzen Powders has 1,000,000 musket caps ready for shipment from Spain. While Mr. Bly reported no firm delivery date, think in terms of SOON. Hope this helps.
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    your thoughts on custom rifle

    I am having a matched pair of .72-caliber English-style rifles made. Being left-handed, it has been a multistep four-year process. Kerry Stottlemyer did the first machine work on Joe Williams' 1.25-inch barrel blanks. He also made breeches and tangs. L&R makes the only production left-handed...
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    Knife sharpening

    Those who suggest a manually operated fixture sharpening tool (Lansky, et al.) have the right idea because you can avoid metamorphosing (I love the word, so live with it.) small errors into monsters. The biggest issue you will almost certainly face is to create a satisfactory grind from what is...
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    Useful books?

    Your most useful primary book will be Muzzle Loading Shooting and Winning with the Champions, Published by Powder, Patch and Ball, Friendship, IN (1973). It is a series of interviews and/or articles by premier muzzleloading and buckskinning authorities of the 1940s through date of publication...
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    TOW bag mould

    So we are not talking about the cheap scissors molds that Dixie sells? Rather, I might see some at auction on eBay that appear to be both old and crude? Either way, why would not a modern malleable iron affixed to a modern handle set design be carried in a bag? Or is merely carrying it that way...
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    TOW bag mould

    What is a bag mold?
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    Does a "several days'" load exist?

    As you almost certainly notice, I have not shot patched RBs in the past, only SPG-lubed conicals in my muzzleloaders. (The patched RB I fired from an original Hawken was loaded by the owner, so it doesn't really count.) Since my one of my two 72s will be completed in a few months, I decided to...
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    Does a "several days'" load exist?

    If there is a patch lube that retains its lubricity and sufficient liquidity to be effective several days after being loaded, please identify it. I'm pretty sure that if such a patch lube exists, it is not the complete "answer." What is missing is how to isolate such a lubed ball from...
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    volume/weight/volume

    Is this volume-weight equality also accurate for other brands of FFg? I have been informed that Swiss [brand], for example, in any granulation is denser than other black powders. While I have not verified this weighing volume charges (of any black powder), I would expect denser powder to be...
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    Rendezvous era Black Powder

    Superb question. While responding to his question, if powder was dispensed from large kegs, please also describe how unsealed powder was kept dry during the following year's trapping. The Voyage of Discovery had powder sealed in specially fabricated sheet lead containers. When container...
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    Finally - Treasure Island done correctly

    I am about to view the movie again. Some follow-up questions before they intrude on my enjoyment. Circa early 1750s, the time where I date the story to take place, I agree that Trelawney, Livesey, and Jim would obtain more than the other members of the treasure hunters. Smolett would have...
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    Ballistic Results

    In penance I will do one of the TIFTIDs (thoughts for the day) Mr. Moyle had all rascals in 6th grade sentenced to a "7th hour" the same 100 times: An avian in the center of manual dexterity is equivalent to double that amount in a dense arboreal mass. . . . I can't help myself - a wiseacre...
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    Ballistic Results

    I agree that adequate ability to kill deer is more than sufficient for deer at round ball range with smaller legal bore sizes. My comment pertained only to increased sectional density and what ballistic and wind resistance improvement accrue from it, strictly from a mathematical perspective...
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