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    Major discoloration of brass after first shooting

    What ever you clean it with, you'll have to do it again when you shoot it next. I'd just let it patina along with rest of metal on rifle.
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    Help me make a choice on twist rate

    My Green Mountain .54 caliber barrel has a 1-66 twist and shoot patched round ball well. A 1-48 twist in a White Mountain .54 TC barrel is finicky with patched round ball. My .53 + caliber Bill Large barrel is also 1 in 48 twist. Finally found a decent Lyman .526 round ball mold for it...
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    Yet Another New Guy From Kansas (NE KS)

    Welcome from Colorado and formerly Kansas. Check out Overbrook club in your neck of the woods if they are still in existence.
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    Anti Brush Rhetoric.

    I agree with those advocating traditional tools over brushes for muzzle loaders. A fouling scraper that fits your breech design will clean out fouling the cloth patches or tow misses. Flax tow is the waste material from making linen thread from flax fibers. You need a corkscrew looking tow...
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    Frying pan challenged

    If you are talking mountain men it depends on group size. Trapping brigades had camp keepers who regularly used three wood tripods lashed with rope and an iron chain and hook to suspend a cast iron bell pot. How long do you suppose it would take to feed an entire brigade if you had to cook and...
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    New Kansas member

    Welcome and condolences on your loss. The Chisolm Trail Antique Gun Association (CTAGA) meets in Wichita and members could help you with antique and modern muzzle loading firearm values or be prospective buyers. A reputable professional appraiser would be used for expensive antiques or custom...
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    Bear Grease Question

    The October Country Bumblin Bear is a combination of beeswax and real bear tallow and another "natural" ingredient. I make my own bear-beeswax lube with no mystery additives at a fraction of the cost. My experience with solid lubes (at room temperature) is that melting it, dipping the...
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    Shooting Rest?

    Most practical for me at range on bench are sandbags made of sewn up blue jean legs filled with sand. A one piece adjustable cradle and butt rest good for tight grouping but point of impact will be different from holding foreshock in my hand that is resting on the sandbag. Tried corn hole...
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    Do you display your flintlock or other guns in your home

    No. There are safely locked away. One could engrave name or social security number or other identification on inside cover of patch box, inside of butt plate or toeplate, interior of barrels for positive I.d. An electronic tracer could be stowed down the barrel of antiques. Bill in our state...
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    Got any dumb statements by idiots?? (Muzzleloading shooting related)

    raylohr 1965, Could you please tell us where you heard about this executive order on banning lead on national forests? Just fact checking.
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    Rawhide and Braintan

    I make my own and give classes on how to. I quit selling my own. Barbara Scott in Denver does/sells both. You could check Paleoplanet Forums for advice on making it and possibly find vendors who sell them. Be prepared to pay $20.00 to $30.00 per square foot for quality brained tan deer and...
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    New member from Katy

    Welcome from Colorado. Say Howdy to Renee Zellwegger who was in Appaloosa movie. Don't know if they used black powder in the scenes.
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    You REALLY want to ship to California??

    There was a chat on here recently about someone who did rob a store or bank with a brass frame, long barrel cap and ball revolver. Not sure if they caught him but cameras did show a long barreled six gun like Pietta's. Hoping it doesn't change classification of black powder firearms.
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    Chokes or no Chokes for Turkey Hunting

    Bullshot, we are talking about smoothbores not rifles. Where did you get your information on the Ashley flintlock being .69 caliber and made by Jake for 200 yard shots? Sam Hawken late in his life talked about building a "super Hawken" for William Ashley, possibly .66 caliber. There is no...
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    Using Bondo to position secure Butt Plate; acceptable or butcher job?

    What is an OP or o.p.?
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    Old Guy returns but using a different name,

    Welcome back Barry, Looks like the tag works. Has a capital "B" on tan background. Others have blue or violet. Wonder if the color code means anything.
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    Tin Can Test

    Soda cans used to be a lot thicker aluminum. Fill the bottom with water to top. Place an empty one on top of it. One shooter hits the bottom with a round ball. Up goes the top can. Second shooter shots the pop can "clay" pigeon in the air with small diameter shot. Doesn't work...
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    Making unusual barrel shapes

    TobJohn, Two weekends ago I was able to handle shootable matchlocks, a wheel lock pistol and hand gonne. If your pyrite is good and the gearing sound, the wheel lock should be very good for ignition, not abysmal. Would love to see you make a left hand wheel lock pistol. I think that a...
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    Hello from Colorado

    Jake 3008, The Squirrel Shoot in Masonville is May 13th and 14th. The CGCA show is the following weekend (20 and 21st) and Mountain Man University, 21 - 28th. Jake, I'll be helping out on an exhibitor table with many Spanish Colonial antiques. Stop by and introduce yourself. Turkey season...
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    New Member

    Welcome from Colorado, tecumseh68. Do you have any interest or knowledge of Tecumseh's trade gun and pipe tomahawk? Have been articles and photos of it in some ml magazines.
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