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    Victory with my troubled Lock and triggers.

    LOCTITE THREADLOCKER BLUE 242 is your friend.
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    Hopkins and Allen .45 underhammer

    Not quite. None of the GM barrels with breechplugs will attach to the H&A action. What you want is the .54 or .58 barrel without a breechplug, but with 5/8 x 18 threads for a breechplug. Then use a 5/8 x 18 bolt from a hardware store to fabricate a breech plug for the H&A. You will also need to...
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    Hopkins and Allen .45 underhammer

    I've made several barrels of various calibers for my H&A's. Two were from Green Mountain (link below), which are nice because they are already threaded for a 5/8" x 18 breech plug. At one time you could buy plugs from H&A. but those days are over. However, it's not difficult to fabricate a plug...
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    Pedersoli Mortimer 12G

    But be sure to put fletching on the back end of the meat skewers. 🤣
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    Hopkins and Allen .45 underhammer

    A big plus with H&A underhammers - it's quite easy to fit a second barrel to the action in whatever caliber and length you want and have easily interchangeable barrels. You can even set up a shotgun barrel. I'd buy it in a flash.
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    Hawken rifle again

    It's not a 36"+ barrel, but 32" is plenty in my book.
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    Ignition woes

    I suspect you can solve your problem by running a very wet 91% Isopropyl alcohol patch down the barrel and pumping the patch vigorously to blow some alcohol out of the nipple before the first loading. Give the alcohol a few minutes to dry before dumping the powder.
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    Flints

    Slightly off topic, but...... I recently started a new medication that's giving me very vivid and weird dreams. A few nights ago I dreamed I was walking along a creek bed with a staff in my hand searching for mushrooms. I spotted an unusual looking stone shaped like a football. When I tried to...
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    .58 ball size

    I have three 58's and use .575 in all three. One is a Green Mountain barrel, one a Sharon barrel and one an H&A Minuteman (don't know who made those barrels). I wish Lee would make a .570 mold though. That would provide more flexibility for experimenting with patch thickness.
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    What is it with curved buttstocks?

    Different shaped gun buttstocks are like different shaped women's butts. Somes ya` like and somes ya` don't. :cool:
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    Ballistol Substitute

    Can a water soluble oil be found at any of the nation-wide retailers (Walmart/NAPA/Oreilles, etc.)? If so, does anyone have a brand name I should look for?
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    I want a .......

    I want to sit around the fire with hanshi.
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    How many shoot bp only?

    I eat beef, pork, poultry and seafood. Why would I limit my recreation to only one flavor?
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    The heavier my load....

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    .50 Cals Need Love to (750 Yard 1:24 Twist .50 Cal, Rice Barrel)

    Dang it Lew. you're running out of serious challenges. So I have a proposition for you. We have some 24" x 24" steel gongs on our hunting club rifle range down here in S. E. Louisiana. The gongs are painted white with a 3" black center dot. If you'd like to take a crack at one of them from up...
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    Effects of paper patched bullets on rifling

    I think Archer is confusing paper patching with paper cartridges.
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    Dang pawn shop did it again.

    My truck's steering system has some sort of glitch that causes it to turn in to every Pawn Shop parking lot
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    My Powder Drum Blew Out. Is My Barrel Done For?

    Actually, that's a simple fix. Drums are not difficult to make using hardware store bolts. Figure out what size bolt is just a bit larger than the existing hole. Then drill and tap the barrel to the thread size of that bolt. Make a new drum from a bolt. You will need to cut it to size, center...
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    Comments at the range

    A long long time ago (1960) in a galaxy far far away (a suburb of New Orleans) I was a 16 year old who had acquired and learned to shoot a 20 GA Belgian made double caplock. My favorite after school activity was to go the the batture of the Mississippi river just upstream of the Huey P. Long...
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    H and A 58 caliber underhammer rifle

    Mine is marked Minuteman also.
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