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  1. dylan84

    Cleaning or Lack Thereof?

    I didn't heat the steel test plates but that is an interesting aspect. I will maybe add that into a future test.
  2. dylan84

    Cleaning or Lack Thereof?

    I started the experiment this morning on some scrap steel. It is cool and wet out today so it will be a good run for rust. I started the test at 8:30 AM CST and will let it go 12 hours and take a picture. The whole point of the grease is to keep the fouling soft. If it stays soft there is...
  3. dylan84

    Thompson Center Muzzleloaders Pros & Cons

    Good to know because I have a later "ugly" stocked one! The barrel rifling has some tooling chatter on mine but I doubt that will hurt anything.
  4. dylan84

    Cleaning or Lack Thereof?

    Kind of makes me want to try an experiment. Burn 50 grains on bare steel as @64Springer said and then burn 50 grains on the same prepared steel but coated in my bullet grease. If no corrosion, then I will be convinced to just keep my irons greased and swab every so often. I had been using a...
  5. dylan84

    Cleaning or Lack Thereof?

    I am starting to believe that black powder isn't near as corrosive as what some people seem to believe. I am experimenting with a shotgun barrel that was dry. I shot some black powder shells I loaded out of it and am letting it sit for a couple weeks to see if any corrosion forms. So far it...
  6. dylan84

    Revolver Accouterments

    Some kind of "grease" if you want to shoot more that a couple cylinders before cleaning.
  7. dylan84

    Tap and Die Set

    OSG, Widia, and YGG. I use spiral fluted (pulls chips out) and spiral point taps (pushes chips ahead of the tap). I really despise old school plug taps at this point in the game! YGG is some amazing tooling for a great price. They are Korean but most USA tool companies import their tooling...
  8. dylan84

    Thompson Center Muzzleloaders Pros & Cons

    Just got a Renegade 50 flint. So far having fun with it. Nice handy rifle. Hoping to get time tomorrow to shoot some groups. As others have said the rifling is surprisingly shallow compared to my Browning Hawken-like-rifle.
  9. dylan84

    SHARON MUZZLE LOADER

    I would think that would effect the flavor of the meat adversely to stress the animal before the kill like that? I know here in the midwest a buck in rut is way worse eating than a doe.
  10. dylan84

    Killer Wax

    Some of our European honey bees are darker. They vary quite a bit from hive to hive. Very interesting critters to have around!
  11. dylan84

    Cleaning or Lack Thereof?

    I stumbled upon this guy's website and found it very interesting. It is far from new content, but I have not seen it shared much on here. I have found his grease under the projectile technique to be sound advice if you want to keep on shooting until you are sick of it without gumming up your...
  12. dylan84

    Pietta cylinders slipping out of lockup

    That is interesting you say that as I accidentally ground my bolt on my NMA too narrow. I was prepared to order a new one but it shoots and cycles great now! It has a little rotational shake but doesn't seem to matter much. The chamber to bore alignment is much better now also. Before it was...
  13. dylan84

    Tuning & Repairing BP Revolvers, How To....

    It is a good starting point. I don't really know why the arbor thing is confusing to people. It needs to bottom out at the correct depth and be held firmly! I mean that is half the freaking gun! I didn't know jack squat about Colt open tops a month ago and instantly noticed the arbor issue...
  14. dylan84

    Pietta cylinders slipping out of lockup

    I was looking at some old Colts for sale and lots of them had peened cylinders and drag marks from the bolt. Without mods like @45D does that action is the bare minimum of simplicity to make the cylinder index.
  15. dylan84

    Pietta cylinders slipping out of lockup

    I tried posting above a pretty good write up of what to do to fix these issues.
  16. dylan84

    Pietta cylinders slipping out of lockup

    https://gungiveaways.com/tuning-the-pietta-cap-and-ball-for-competition/
  17. dylan84

    My Pietta 1858 Army

    The trick with those is grease under the bullet or ball and you can shoot until you are sick of it. The cylinder will still be free and with the right amount of grease no real reason to even clean except with at barrel swab (don't even really need to do that). The soap and water thing is for...
  18. dylan84

    Pietta cylinders slipping out of lockup

    I had to correct both my 1858 and 1860. I was able to grind the bolt on the opposite side to get my alignment perfect on my 1858. Prior to that the chamber wasn't even lined up to the bore! Now to get my bolt timing better on the 1860.....
  19. dylan84

    Pietta cylinders slipping out of lockup

    Yep what he said!
  20. dylan84

    TC Renegade Shotgun Barrels?

    The best way that I have learned to make a true bore is to gun drill, then contour, stress relieve, finish ream, and lap. That process also aligns the bore to the outer contour which surprisingly is not done by quite a few cheaper barrel manufacturers. Everything takes time but it is way...
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