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    Amusing/Ridiculous Muzzleloading Misconceptions...

    "Back then they would march towards each other and when they got to about 40 yards apart they would fire."
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    questions about Great Plains Signature

    Thank you for that! I thought I lost my mind. This is very curious, because SDSmlf claims that the table was there for quite some time. So maybe they removed it for some unknown reason and I just happened to look at a bad time?
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    questions about Great Plains Signature

    I don't know if I like that shallow rifling for roundball guns. I think the original GPRs had groove depths of .010".
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    questions about Great Plains Signature

    Good grief! I swear, this morning I was on that same website and they did NOT have that table on the page. I don't know how I could have over-looked it, but I did just have my 50th birthday not long ago. :doh:
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    questions about Great Plains Signature

    Whatever. My point is I already made an attempt at researching this. So as a last resort I thought I'd check in here.
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    Cold! Still Shoot?

    Make a big ball block - with enough holes to hold a sufficient number of patched balls so you can do all that stuff in the comfort of your kitchen. Tie your powder measure to a lanyard. Get yourself a flintlock and hang a pan primer on a lanyard. Wear insulated gloves and practice the...
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    questions about Great Plains Signature

    Hah, hah. Good one smarty-pants. I already looked there. The only information I found was that the hunter model has a twist of 1:24". But in other places I am finding the twist rates listed as 1:32, 1:47, 1:48, 1:65, and 1:66. And nowhere am I finding groove depth (1:48 can be a great...
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    questions about Great Plains Signature

    I have been trying to chase down details about the Lyman GPS rifles. And I think I just have more questions than answers. They offer the guns in .50 & .54 and both Hunter and standard versions. So what is the rifling twist and groove depth for: .50 standard version? .50 hunter version? .54...
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    First shot varies...what would you do?

    I just hunt with a dirty bore. Clean when you know you're not going out the next day or two.
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    Don’t trust them

    I use pin & epoxy. Also, it is really important that the wood bottoms out on the inside of the brass tip. Having epoxy to fill this gap helps. I screw a jag on when I epoxy these so that way the excess epoxy is forced back out towards the wooden rod. You don't want epoxy goobering up the...
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    Dry ball idjit

    Careful about calling dryballers idjits! You probably offended just about everyone on the forum :cool:
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    WANTED Need a Lyman GPR wedge key

    I've always found Lyman parts to actually be reasonably priced. Some places the parts are so awful you might as well buy a new gun.
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    SOLD "Large" barreled Percussion muzzleloader $500

    Well somebody ought to buy it before Grizz44Mag gets his hands on it! ;)
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    Lyman GPR

    Fishbelly?
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    What did I buy?

    I have one of those Cabela's Hawken Hunter Carbines. Mine is a .50 with a fast twist. Works well with roundballs and pistol charges or fully-charged conical loads. I've heard the Cherokees/Seneca's have a full 14-inch length of pull - more of a grown man's size. However for rifles, it seems...
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    Help a newbie with misfirng caps

    My daughters have a real challenge getting a ball started. So I just cut an old hickory maul handle into 6-inch lengths and smoothed off the ends. They use these as mallets. You don't need to give it a real hard whack, just a series of whacks will get it started.
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    Is investing in a chronograph a good idea?

    The problem with chronographs is, once you've measured what you shoot they tend to sit around doing nothing. Renting one would seem a far wiser option. However, no one who owns one is likely to let a mere aquaintance borrow it, unless they don't mind it coming back all shot up. That said...
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    question on mildew on tent

    Ok. Bleach works. I hope the main reason bleach is not recommended is because it takes out the waterproofing. That was taken out when I soaked it in oxiclean. I didn't immerse it this time. Since I already have it set up, I just filled a garden sprayer with water (1 gallon) and put a good...
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    question on mildew on tent

    OK. So the message I'm getting is that mildew isn't dead until all the remaining stains are gone? The frustrating thing is, I've been using canvas tents for 24 years and only now have had a problem this widespread. I don't recall ever putting it away wet.
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    question on mildew on tent

    I've got a canvas tent that mildewed. Right now I'd say it isn't sever, but it is widespread so hand scrubbing A) didn't work, and if it did work B) it would be a LOT of work. The tent is a 12x16 and the mildew lightly covers the entire roof. I soaked it for 48 hours in Oxiclean and it did...
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