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    Needing help please oh I know it is the serial number don't start with a k so it's not a kit

    So what do you want to know about the serial number? Generally speaking, the modern-made guns have serial numbers. Muzzleloaders made a couple centuries ago had signatures. And the bit about a shotgun is confusing.
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    Ever cast a bad batch of Roundballs?

    I wonder if it matters more for RBs tha bullets. My understanding is that the weight desrepencies can be caused by air voids which usually are directly beneath the sprue. If you load sprue-forward, this puts the void on the axis of rotation and it shouldn't make a difference. However, I have...
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    Ever cast a bad batch of Roundballs?

    It seems to be a consensus at the castboolits forum that variations in bullet weight don't matter much. Especially for pistol bullets. However if weight doesn't matter, and there are no obvious deformities is it possible to have a bad batch of cast RBs? I have been have problems with a...
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    Dry balled my .32 Kibler, with my solution

    I have dry balled my .36. I think forcing powder into the touch hole can be problematic because the inside of the the touch hole liner can extend past the curve of the ball. This allows pressure to escape out the muzzle without pushing the ball forward. I believe I ended up pulling the...
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    why are barrels octagonal?

    One reason for octagon profile that I have not seen suggested is that it could help keep the barrel locked in place during the rifling process. Go to 10:00 in the video, you'll see Mr. Gussler clamping the barrel to prepare to cut the rifling. If you imagine the torque that is applied to the...
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    brush-busting with roundballs

    I was curious if people who have used smoothbores noticed better performance through brush (say during a woodswalk, if you don't like hunting in brush) compared to a rifle. The gyroscope effect of rifling helps improve accuracy over greater distances, but it seems that it can work against you...
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    brush-busting with roundballs

    This. The ones you don't see. And the closer to the target the less likely you are going to see them. A raspberry cane is easy to see 10 yards away, but is tough to pick out 40 yards away. Since you can never be truly sure your shot is clear, it is nice to understand how bullets react. I...
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    brush-busting with roundballs

    Robby, Any kid who spun a top on a table knows what happens when it hit a glass or ashtray. Rifle bullets are just flying gyroscopes.
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    brush-busting with roundballs

    Man Robby if you could link me up with that video!
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    brush-busting with roundballs

    Not necessarily. This is my point. So many people out there think it comes down to momentum/mass, but they dismiss the affects of gyroscopic rotation, bullet shape, and bullet hardness. Bullets/balls shot from rifles may have a disadvantage due to their spin. A slight bump to a gyroscope can...
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    brush-busting with roundballs

    I thought I would look into what factors affect the brush busting abilities of a bullet aside from the usual mantra of, slow-n-heavy. It has lead me on a fun odyssey studying gyroscopes and such. I am reaching the conclusion that nobody has bothered to design a bullet to plough through brush...
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    Murphy's Soap???

    You could use 100% water and still not adequately flush the salts. If all you do is run a damp patch or two downbore before moving on to drying the bore I doubt you're really flushing salts out. Methods that involve pouring water in the muzzle, immersing the breech, or attaching a flush tube...
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    Murphy's Soap???

    I think a thorough water flush is most important. You need to rinse the salts away, not just dissolve them and shmeer them around the bore. For this a healthy dose of water is most effective. I use a lot of tallow to grease the patches. So a patch soaked in MAP is good for clearing the...
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    How to find a good rifle similar to Mike Lange Rugrat

    Cabin creek muzzleloaders offers a boys/ladies rifle, but that's semicustom.
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    What to do with "Sporterized" Hawken?

    I have had two such rifles that you speak of. To be correct they are "Sporterized Hawken Carbines". One of mine was a .54 that I never could get to shoot worth a dime. The one I have now is a .50 and it does quite well with either rb or the unmentionables. For the rb I use a "pistol"...
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    Shooting ideas to beat my son in law

    vinyl? 45rpm? I don't know whether to chastise you guys for suggesting such anachronistic targets for a muzzleloader, or to laugh at the idea of paying top dollar at an antique store for a target.
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    AUGUST MATCH-Back To The Basics

    I put Shootin Fool's and my targets in the mail yesterday.
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    JULY FIREWORKS CONTEST

    Sorry. I am not trying to be impatient. Just expressing anticipation. I enjoy these shoots. The wait is half the fun.
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    JULY FIREWORKS CONTEST

    :pop:
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    JUNE Contest: Splitting Hare’s

    Took from the 2nd until the 11th to get there? Yeah we shot 'em on Saturday the 30th, figuring we had until 5:30 before the last mail pick-up. Then we rushed into town, only to find out that on Saturday they pick up at 4:00! So we put 'em in the box and, of course, they didn't start...
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