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If my little store can stock goex, these other places damn sure can!

Both my dad and I are shooting traditions St.louis hawken rifles that I built us from kits and rebarreled them in 54cal to meet Colorado minimum for elk. My dad used 70gr 3fg Gearhart-owen, .530" round ball and .020" patches lubed with Frontier's Bear Paws patch lube. Everything in my rifle...

Dad and I got a buck and doe out of the same group!

Sure but self sufficient is even better. Especially with the non corrosive caps we're turning out.

3d print your caps...

Yes that mag spark can cause accuracy issues.

Big bores did not come with a patch box

My hide is nice and soft. Hair on, but it's thick skin.

Hunting bags, coat.. I use mine for a blanket

Note, select WALNUT. Not the typical select hardwood you see mentioned in later ads.

Incorrect. Cva did in fact use walnut on their early hawken rifles.

44cal projectile is not colorado legal.

99.9% of conicals on today's market do not use patches. Paper patched bullets and conicals are not exactly in the same category.

USA made used plain maple mostly, some figured.

Powder

My old deer creek northwest rifle ( renamed cva mountain rifle ) in .45cal shot a 225gr conical and 90gr 3fg triple 7 beautiful. 90gr 3fg with a ball is a lot, but.... not enough to harm the barrel 😂

See that's the problem. You followed the black sheep off a cliff lol. Their breech plug issue was one ONE model and that was the 1995-96 cva Apollo. The cva sidelocks have one of the strongest breech plugs ever designed.

Yeah that looks terrible but as long as they go off reliably, that's awesome. The rubberized plastic doesn't do that.

Exactly why we're using the rubberized plastic. Even the popcan caps were punching holes in the center. The priming compound we're using is HARD when it sets up, so that helps a lot.