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  1. zimmerstutzen

    Can brass bore guides cause damage?

    Brass can be harder than stainless steel as well as iron. It depends on the alloys and tempering.
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    A pair of biguns

    I think the Feds limit for waterfowl is 10 as well. Now, I met a charter boat captain that claims once he is 12 miles out, all regs are null and void. He operated out of Lewes Delaware and claimed ducks and Geese took short cuts across the ocean when flying down the coast, so they did get...
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    50/50 Dawn dish soap and water patch lube

    Usually had a can or bottle of diet coke on the loading bench. Never ran out of spit, even with 50 shots in a day. For hunting, I would use bees wax mixed with microcrystalline wax.
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    A pair of biguns

    Where are 8 ga guns legal for hunting. Sure not in PA.
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    50/50 Dawn dish soap and water patch lube

    plain old spit works fine for many match shooters. Worked fine for 50 years, why would I switch?
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    Is there a way to postpone cleaning a ml?

    Maybe in YOUR world with the type of shooting you do. Where are you going to get a bucket of hot soapy water at a rifle range? I often had 3 or 4 hour drives home after a match. Not like I shot it out the back door and had the kitchen stove and sink 4 feet away.
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    Is there a way to postpone cleaning a ml?

    If you are using real black powder, indeed there is. Did it many times after a match so i could make the 2 or 3 hour drive home Sunday evening and clean the guns the next evening. WW2 US Army bore cleaner. Not the later stuff from Nam era. The earlier stuff had benzene and other obnoxious...
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    BEST CALIBER TO HUNT DEER W/ FLINTLOCK RIFLE

    You can get a 54 in any configuration that a 50 comes in. a 54 bucks wind slightly better, makes a hole 15% larger than a 50, more chance of blood loss and shock stopping the animal. A 50 is convenient simply because nearly every store that has muzzle loader items has 50 caliber projectiles...
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    Looks like i got burned

    Most on line orders show an automatic shipping number as soon as the shipping label is printed. At many companies, the shipping label is printed immediately sometimes days before the order gets to the warehouse for the item to be picked out of inventory.
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    Looks like i got burned

    Demand can be artificially increased. Look what Quigley Down Under did for Sharps repros and BPCR. To an extent the Hunger games series brought some women to archery. Most of the muzzle loader resurgence of the 1960's and 1970's was thanks to Walt Disney's productions. There has been a few...
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    Looks like i got burned

    Today's price of Wano powder in Germany is 28 Euros a kilo. Todays exchange is $1.11 dollars to the Euro. so still about $14 a pound. 4 years ago, it was 18 Euros a kilo. Böllerbau Pfnür - Böllerpulver (check out this guy's salute guns)
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    Looks like i got burned

    The genre may not be dying, but compared to the late 1970's, it is in a nursing home. Premium parts for custom rifles have always been expensive. And why take the time to build with crappy parts? In 1992, I paid $3 a pound for powder and bought enough to last 15 or more years. Lead, I...
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    Strange issue cleaning .50 cal

    Don't know why folks use brushes in muzzle loaders. Never needed one for a front stuffer. Jag and flannel patch always did the job. I know Italian guns often had a tight bore in the early days. I suspect they were making metric bores and calling them by US calibers. 11 mm was called 44...
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    PSA.... Check your local Walmart.

    I had a really nice Schimmel that need some work and Brad at cabin creek fixed it right up. The wally's in east york is my local. Not a lot historical to see here in York. Indian Steps Museum, Harley factory, There are some interesting things about the river at the Susquehanna center in...
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    PSA.... Check your local Walmart.

    Where in SE PA?. I am near York and the east York WM gets caps in. Usually sold out, but I have seen them there. If you are in SE PA, you are only an hour from Dixon's Muzzle loaders.
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    PSA.... Check your local Walmart.

    We have a flint lock only season. Walmart carries nothing worthwhile here. Most of my pistols and the few percussion guns I have were made for musket caps. I did stop in yesterday A sight for my bow, new in package was marked down to $2.50. Never intended on using a sight, but what the...
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    Got a lathe to play with... built a Cannon!

    Where are you located. I have some old farm machinery in the upper field (baler, hay bine) that Mrs. wants me to call the scrapper to haul away. You are welcome to come take whatever you want off, axles, bearings, shafts, etc. My buddy stripped an old New Holland Baler and used the hay...
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    Got a lathe to play with... built a Cannon!

    My municipality has a metal recycling center where any resident can take old scrap metal and throw it in the dumpster and the town gets whatever money is received. I get there perhaps once every two months. I have come across three floor jacks. They all have metal wheels of two different...
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    Little brass cannon, again

    Firecrackers were a heck of a lot more powerful when I was a kid. Can't get m-80's or cherry bombs any more. Used to et some kind of golf ball sized thing, when you threw it down there was a bang, not extremely so, but an instant huge pillar of smoke. The sort of thing magicians in the...
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    has anyone heard of this percussion cap company?

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