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    Need a permit to purchase a BP revolver?

    Keep in mind while antique or reproduction black powder guns do not meet the definition of a firearm under federal law, they do meet the definition of a dangerous weapon under state law. For some reason a few misguided individuals believe that thre is something special about them that makes it...
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    Is This For Real?

    It is a "real" auction on that website, sure. But I am skeptical that it is genuine in terms of legitimate bidding.
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    4 chambers at once!

    I've wondered about this "shaved lead ring means it is safe" from the front business. Lead melts at only 620F, very low. It wouldn't surprise me a bit to find that hot explosive gasses can melt or deform the ball and plow through a small resultant gap. For my part I suspect a chain fire can be...
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    Looking for real BP in Houston, TX/group order?

    Funny you mention that, I recall one time had a roommate in the .mil, was going to the store - asked "want me to pick anything up for you?" "Yeah pick up some butter". You can see where this is going, right? To add insult to injury, he was from South Dakota, and raised beef cattle - Charolais...
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    Dixie you will get it

    Not that laws seem to matter much of anything anymore, but as a point most, if not all, Merchant's Agreements require that an item is in stock before a credit card can be charged. There is a little wiggle room on this maybe, though not much. I've ran into this in more or less custom or specialty...
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    Is This For Real?

    Looks insane to me. But it has several bids. What am I missing? I've heard they are tough to find, but Jeeze Louise.
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    Looking for real BP in Houston, TX/group order?

    Right - but then you have to correct them in the error of their ways. Words mean things. Maybe "Goex" gets the point across. Most smokeless powders are "black", but that doesn't mean they belong in muzzleloaders or cap & ball revolvers, as many people have found out the hard way. It's just sad...
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    Looking for real BP in Houston, TX/group order?

    Resist the urge to call it "real" black powder. It's black powder. Pyrodex or 777, call it by their proper name. Sort of like "real" butter, or "real" ice cream, or "real" maple syrup.
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    Linseed oil

    I wondered about that, because of reading the L&C Journals, and the issuance of a "Gill" of Spirits to revive the men. What the hell is a "Gill"? And can a feller get snockered on a "Gill"? Either way, I think "Yes". But ... if they used the British units of measure in those days, in the...
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    Texas Freeze!!

    I think I've found part of the reason they were so vague about the "equipment failures." Natural Gas is one of those "just in time" inventory things. Unlike Coal or Nuclear, where fuel is kept on site, for example. Natural gas needs to be pumped. Ordinarily the pumps are fired by ... wait for...
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    Burned by USPS

    Does the Post Office have that as an option? They have signature confirmation, and I thought they had something like "Restricted Delivery", which means it is only deliverable to a specific person, who has to show ID. Something like that. "Registered" mail is pretty secure too. "Delivery...
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    Texas Freeze!!

    "Glad 2020 is over!!" 2021: "Hold my beer for a second. Hey Y'all, watch this!"
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    Anyone winter camping?

    Looks like several million folks in and around Texas are "winter camping" right now, though maybe not planned. I saw someone online in a forum who was complaining they couldn't make coffee (among other things) Who the hell can't figure out a way, who doesn't have a plan to boil water without...
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    USPS and Track of the Wolf

    And you know what? So long as the mail goes through, so what? So long as people aren't impaired I couldn't care less. A cold beer on a hot day is refreshing. When I was stationed "over there", the unions have negotiated into their contract that they can drink two (2) beers at lunch. It is legal...
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    Texas Freeze!!

    At least they aren't burning any of that icky domestic coal, of which there are several hundred years reserve worth still in the ground, to provide safe, clean, reliable and inexpensive electricity generation to heat our homes and power our businesses. So we got that goin' for us, which is nice.
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    Texas Freeze!!

    Remarkably few specifics in that article. "Equipment froze." What does that mean, exactly? What "equipment"? And they didn't winterize. Well, what does that entail?Why wasn't this done? And it isn't as if this arctic blast came as a surprise, this was forecast, they had fair warning seems to me...
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    Texas Freeze!!

    I'm reading reports now over 4.3 million without electricity in Texas, out of 12 million. That's 4.3 million "subscribers" or whatever they call it these days, point being though it's a lot more people than that.
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    Anyone winter camping?

    Well sure, but in the parks and high traveled designated wilderness campsite areas they discourage cutting boughs and denuding trees in the old woodcraft ways. The foam ensolite was a standard for quite a while, but wasn't exactly super comfortable. ThermaRest was a revolutionary design for...
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    Texas Freeze!!

    Radio reports up to a million without electricity in Texas, and rolling blackouts in numerous other states. Who says ya don't need a wood burning stove in Texas?
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    Black powder?

    Ha, no I don't GAF about permission, that ain't the point at all. I know exactly what a pound of powder can do when set off at once because I was a dumb teenager with a misspent youth. In those days it was sold on the shelf at the drugstore, can't recall where exactly I bought it but it wasn't a...
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