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    Heat from candle

    I live in Amish country. For decades the Amish used Aladdin lamps in their houses and shops and Coleman mantle lanterns to go out to the barn and out buildings at night. There were some pressurized kerosene mantle lanterns on the market that put out an incredible amount of light. I had one...
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    No markings, no history, looking for help

    Ohio-Indiana rifle. Can be fixed, but If you do, have it done in a way that won't destroy the value. Some folk want to stick plastic and fiberglass everywhere. Sure way to take a $500 gun down to $250. Proper fix involves taking breech plug out, maybe re-rifling the bore. A pro can fix the...
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    Heat from candle

    On another tack, I have a couple of old Jone pocket warmers. My daughter saw them and asked what they are. I explained that they were pocket warmers, they would be filled with lighter fluid and lit until the wire across the top glowed and then the flame blown out and the hot wire kept burning...
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    Wallflower guns

    I have a cannon that I haven't shot in 30 years. Last time I did, a neighbor claimed that the concussion blew in some windows of her house and it cost me a couple hundred bucks to keep the peace. The wooden frames were quite rotted and I suppose the shock wave could have been the final straw.
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    History of hunting from trees

    Hard to say. Most of Penn's woods were conifers before contact. Harder to get a clear view from a conifer than a deciduous tree. But if any one would have realized the advantages of hunting white tail, I would think the natives would have realized the advantage of being above the deer's line...
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    Heat from candle

    we must have had the same anthropology book in college. I remember something about that too. We had to watch an old black and white silent movie about the old Eskimo fellow and his family parts of it got a little risque and a Nun in the class went off the deep end over those scenes. Tried to...
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    Heat from candle

    About 45 years ago, there was a fellow that attended the weekend matches at Blue Ridge Rifles in PA. He put denatured alcohol in a kerosene lantern and lit the thing. I remember one frosty morning at a fall shoot and his tent flaps were open and the heat pouring out of his tent. I have always...
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    Heat from candle

    I was just on the Kirkman site this afternoon. I have two Deitz lanterns and was researching how much heat they produce. I recently had some one ask if I knew where they could get one of those old cannonball lights that highway departments once used with kerosene/drain oil to put lights out...
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    Heat from candle

    About forty years ago, A buddy came up with a loose unscientific formula that on a still night, a single candle burning in a 8 x 8 wall tent with flaps closed and bottom perimeter closed would warm the interior about 9 degrees over the exterior temperature. So if it was 40 degrees out and he...
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    concussion from BP revolvers

    I don't know about sound concussion, but if close enough the exhaust from a shot going out the barrel could blow one out. Remember those funky air cannons that were sold in the mid 1960's. pistol grip and a large round cyclinber with a spring loaded plunder and a funnel shape. The plunger...
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    as I thought, just divert from answering the questions. No experience to speak of with Pyrodex in older guns, etc.
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    The question is not whether black powder is corrosive. Any ***** knows it is. Pyrodex is more corrosive. Black powder fouling is easier to neutralize. What some negligent owner did with his gun with black powder has no relevance to the scientific fact that Pyrodex is worse. A guy who lets a...
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    Haha. Tell us what guns you used Pyrodex in and then cleaned up no problem. How many were not modern alloys from the past 30 years. How many Numrich or Douglas barrels from the 1960's? How many original 19th century guns? How many early CVA barrels when they were still made by Jukar in...
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    Won't own a gun with a corroded or pitted bore? That's a laugh. I have had a couple original longrifles and many original muskets and shot guns.. Try to find one without some bore rust and pitting! My most accurate BPCR was an 1885 Trapdoor with a pitted bore. Routinely knocked down 8 or 9...
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    You can't get the other substitutes?
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    That is a frequent complaint by many. I am fortunate to live in PA with a flintlock only season, so real black powder is not that hard to get. I also have three black powder shops within a two hour drive. One of the forums I belong to had a listing by state and town of shops that sold...
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    I have seen lots of corroded guns. That a flinter is corroded doesn't mean Pyrodex is better than real black powder. There have been experiments using equal amounts of black powder and pyrodex on clean steel plate and then keep them in the same humidity for 2 days. and then 4 days, etc...
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    Is it uncool to use Pyrodex?

    Pyrodex fouling is more corrosive than black powder fouling. Pyrodex degrades chemically with time. Black powder hardly ever does. Many claim Pyrodex is not as consistent as black powder from shot to shot. Purodex is nearly impossible to use in a flintlock. Pyrodex fouling does seem to...
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    PA changes regs to permit Nitrofire in future

    As usual for the PA GAme commission, the terms used are not the model of clarity. and in a somewhat obtuse way. The definition includes as muzzleloaders those breechloaders loaded with "loose ammunition components (propellant and charge) comparable to a muzzle loader" This language...
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    Recent NYS Firearms Law

    Searching a car is not subject to the same requirements as a house. A car is mobile and likely to be moved. There are slightly less restrictive rules for searches of cars and even fewer restrictions to frisk an individual. Each state differs slightly on what was allowed, but the SCOTUS has...
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