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  1. rdlowe

    Getting the best from my Parker Hale

    I’m a fan of paper patched Pritchett bullets because it was *the* battlefield bullet of the day. It works very well in that regard, where the standard is to shoot “minute of Queen’s enemy” with cartridges issued to you. (No load development?! The terror!) That’s not to say I don’t punch a...
  2. rdlowe

    Joined the dry ball club today!!

    Welcome to the club!
  3. rdlowe

    .58 cal bullets supply

    This means the expanding gas behind the bullet, which usually helps by “inflating” the skirt of the minie into the rifling grooves, is too strong and damages the skirt. This will result in really bad accuracy. The opposite thing can happen if the charge behind a minie is too light: the skirt...
  4. rdlowe

    1st 2 Squirrels of 2020

    Nice shooting...no, great shooting!
  5. rdlowe

    Flint maintenance

    Well, that’s another way to go about it, sure.
  6. rdlowe

    Flint maintenance

    Nice to see you’ve made it thru a flint! Muskets usually have very powerful locks that go thru flints a lot faster than civilian arms do. At least mine are that way. I keep one of those small brass hammers (commonly sold as a flint hammer) in my shooting kit. My technique is simple: put the lock...
  7. rdlowe

    Black Powder TV

    That same episode got me too, for the same reason.
  8. rdlowe

    My first ever keyhole

    Worth thinking about. Starting today I’ll be rolling up some hysterical I mean historical cartridges with Pritchett bullets of 3 diameters and regular “Union style” minies. The Pritchett bullets have clay plugs, but one of them is .550 diameter before paper patching. It’s just gonna take a full...
  9. rdlowe

    Does a RB travel with constant rotation, or accelerate?

    I like this take on things. Hitting the target isn’t hard, usually. Understanding why that’s true is trickier than it seems, and full of pitfalls.
  10. rdlowe

    Possible bags

    Bob, speaking of, do you remember where you got the turnscrew(s) seen in your videos?
  11. rdlowe

    Does a RB travel with constant rotation, or accelerate?

    Yes, this happened to my good friends Marshall, Will and Holly, on a routine expedition.
  12. rdlowe

    Shot the new to me 50 cal CVA Mountain rifle

    I’ve never had much success stuffing really tight patch/ball combos down the pipe using a dry lube method, especially after the first couple of shots. Did the combo fit at all? Is the rifling shallow? In my shallow rifling gun of 50 caliber, when using the dry lube method I go with a .010 patch...
  13. rdlowe

    Does a RB travel with constant rotation, or accelerate?

    Suppose you’re in a canoe that’s crossing a river flowing at 5 m/s and you can row at 2 m/s and...wait, that would be a terrible day to go canoeing.
  14. rdlowe

    My first ever keyhole

    Check this out! Took my Parker Hale out to the 50 yard line to try a couple different minies. I started with a light powder charge of 35 grains 2f. I saw the hit was low on the paper which seemed peculiar, so I pulled out the binos and there it was, big as day. An almost perfect keyhole. Upped...
  15. rdlowe

    Where the heck is Azerbaijan?

    Heya, fellow traveller here, also 20 years Army. Welcome to the forum.
  16. rdlowe

    Do smaller calibers foul more?

    Curious what others will say, but in my experience the more powder you burn the greater the fouling. I don’t shoot a lot of small bore, tho.
  17. rdlowe

    Internet transactions, payment and shipping

    It’s ok. Anyone who says they understand math is mistaken. 👍😎
  18. rdlowe

    Internet transactions, payment and shipping

    Which...the restaurant part or the classroom part?
  19. rdlowe

    My flinter. What have I done?!

    Nice gun, man. Congrats and welcome to the dark side!
  20. rdlowe

    Hello from the Deep South

    Welcome from TX. I used to have a house down in Enterprise during my time at Rucker. Good memories of my time down ther (except the Rucker part haha).
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