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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Looks like a well-spent day. Great photo!!!
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Ordered a Mag-Spark for .54 Traditions White Tail. Found an "untold" number of 209s in my stuff ... figured... "Yeah, that's the ticket."
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    Cleaning .36 Seneca

    No empirical data, or actual knowledge of why, but I still use boiling water with a dash of Dawn and a couple of glugs of household ammonia in the pan as I pump the patch up and down ... a practice I used on a Springfield product designed in 1903 when it was ignited with 1943-or-older fuel with...
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Cast 25 .530 Minie from Lee mold for my Traditions Whitetail .54.
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    Conical bullets best suited for Thompson Center shallow grooves 1/48" barrels.

    Hornady Great Plains bullet always shot very well for me with a .54 in 1:48. Now shooting .533 Lee mold Minnie with good result over a felt patch and "paper patched" with coffee filter material.
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    New from SW PA!

    Welcome from Oklahoma!
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    Zeroed my .50 New Englander Today

    Love the old "pop up" steel Army target for a target frame!
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    Solution for old eyes

    Sorry, 'won't be there.
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    Solution for old eyes

    Excellent explanation of "Optometristese" As my preacher says, "You gotta put the feed out there where the calves can reach it." You've certainly done that my friend.
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    Remember your First ML kill?

    Small spike buck on uplands near the Cimarron River in a mixed hardwood stand between prairie ground and wheat fields on bottomland near the river. I was huddled under a large Eastern Red Cedar tree just after sunrise in late October and was presented with a rear-quartering shot in the brush...
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    Progress at last!

    In the past had trouble with Lee Minnie .533 (410 gr.) not grouping well in my Traditions Whitetail .54 1:48. Had hoped to be able to cast an equivalent bullet to Hornady Great Plains (425 gr.) which seemed to shoot very well. "Groups" were three-minutes of dinner plate at 50 yards, so at that...
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    Is Change is a Good Thing? The New .54 Mold!

    Please post results when you get them. I've tried both REAL and Mini Bullet over the years. Always go back to PRB. I started out trying to find a home-cast replacement for the Hornady Buffalo Bullet -- which shoot well for me, but I want to cast my own. Groups for REAL and MiniBullet are...
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    Hello from Oklahoma

    Thanks!! I like it and have stocked up for "the long winter" ... Just seems a bit easier to carry, care for, and pour. Dan
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    Hello from Oklahoma

    Hello, good to be on here with others interested in traditional primitive firearms, and sidelocks of all sorts. Been shooting infrequently with my .54 Traditions Whitetail since mid 1990s ... thoroughly enjoy plinking with my grandsons (two of whom I supplied and oversaw Traditions percussion...
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    54 cal. powder charge?

    Have hunted for years with an open-sight Traditions Whitetail .54 with a 24" barrel and 1:48 twist. Had good luck with 70-90 gr. of Pyrodex RS behind 425 gr. Buffalo Bullet, but have settled on a 70 gr. charge behind patched ball (.530 and pillow ticking, or commercial Bore Butter-soaked...
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