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    Lube Wafers?

    I do this with roundball and find good success The purpose is that it allows indefinite shooting without a water-based lube and without swabbing. It also protects the patch from destruction by gas pressure. It works with most of my guns, but not all.
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    Possibles bag gusset

    good for you. Hopefully you won't need to fill either style full. But what I find most useful with the gusset is not room for gear but room for hands! Cold hands fumbling blindly while nervously keeping an eye on a deer that was too stupid to flee after the first shot.
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    Possibles bag, what confussion

    I keep a bag per gun. Partly because each of my kids hunts with a gun. But my largebore and smallbore require difference powder, ball, and ball blocks so it is just easier to keep a bag for each. I also have a tackle box for the range. I don't carry but 1/2 dozen shots in the field so I...
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    anyone use a plain dowel as a ramrod?

    Well that was part of it. I thought if I can go to a store I can pick-n-choose. If I get one from Track I'll get what they send me. But the grain run-out is irrelevant as that problem would still exist whether I put the brass tip on or not.
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    anyone use a plain dowel as a ramrod?

    I suppose, there probably ain't much risk in trying it without consulting you folks but. . . As I look back it has been a long time since I ever needed to pull anything from a barrel while in the hunting field. Whenever I clean I am usually at camp or home where I have access to threaded metal...
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    New rifle

    It looks like the Blue Ridge is your best bet. Next down the list would be any of the Pedersoli longrifles. Followed by T/C or Lyman. I would avoid the CVA and Traditions flintlocks. The rationale for my ordering is giving weight to both lock reliability and period correctness to the dates...
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    Thanks Smo, Well the problem with the delay seems to be unfixable. The old liner already had a larger touch hole. I will probably drill out the hole to 1/16" just to eliminate the occasional flash in the pan. But my hopes of solving that slight hesitation are dashed.
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    To report back: I finally got a chance to get out shooting. It appears that the new liner with smaller touch hole (whatever size comes with a WL) does not remedy the problem. There is a slight delay. It Really forces me to pay attention to follow-through. Firestick still goes boom, just not...
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    rain x all season wiper fluid

    Spud Do you think the rainex is laying a coating right over the fouling? If the coating is on the bare metal I would feel secure. But if the solvent doesn't remove fouling I would be concerned.
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    "Does the theory match our experience in real life?" Now that I think about it: I know when reloading for supossitory guns they often concern themselves with standard deviation of muzzle velocity. Thus sometimes a particular load will produce inconsistant MVs in spite of the fact that all...
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    650 It could be that the .50, though it has a longer barrel time, has another quality that overrides the advantage that the .62 has with respect to barrel time. The question is: would you improve by shortening the barrel time of your .50?
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    Spence, I agree that an enlarged vent should not affect the bench accuracy but I believe it could affect your offhand accuracy. The time it takes between tripping the trigger and the ball exiting the muzzle can be broken into two events, lock time and barrel time. Lock time begins with the...
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    I agree that there is a semantics problem. I am not sure how to describe it other than to use the word "report" to referr to the sound of the muzzle blast. This is to distinguish from the actual ignition. Perhaps the best way to describe my problem would be to say that there is a delay...
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    So the question is, does larger vent cause a delay in building up to that pressure?
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    Well the problem wasn't unreliable ignition. With the .070" hole there were no failure to fires. Just a barely perceptable hesitation between the lock going off and the rifle's report.
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    touch hole: how big is too big?

    What happens when a touch hole gets too big? Can it delay the shot? I am in the process of replacing a 15 year old White Lightning liner. My gun has been puzzling me for some time now because there seems to be a perceptible delay when firing. I thought it was the lock and polished that up...
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    failure to ignite cap?

    I have two Cabela Hawkens that will misfire frequently. The problem isn't that the cap doesn't ignite the powder it is that the hammer doesn't ignite the cap. I've gone through the locks and polished them up really well and for the life of me I cannot figure out what is causing the problem...
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    My next/last rifle.

    Well, since you've been shooting Pyrodex only, go with a flintlock for certain! It will force you to use real black powder, and you'll end up thanking us in the end :wink: I've switched to Swiss powder and the clean up and rusting has diminished greatly. Good BP just isn't as corrosive as...
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    Hope for the future

    Patriot, :grin: . Revenant, :barf: .
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    Muzzleloaders now

    well. It ain't just muzzleloaders. If you have looked at the price of modern shell-shuckers you'd be astounded. So forking out $1,000 for a semi-custom flintlock is about on-par with buying a brand-name bolt action & scope.
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