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I never grease my bullets by dipping, but grease them just before shooting, as I do with my Minié bullets. The composition of my grease is simple, and it is very tenacious and supple. It's a mixture of beeswax, tallow, lanolin, and pure neatsfoot oil (not the brand, but real beef oil). It's the...

Well done! Now that's a great job and a great explanation. 👏🙌 My caliber is .541" (Pedersoli) and I use 50 grains of 3Fg (PNF1). Hahn tubes can't be found in Absurdistan, so, by default, manufacturing with saltpeter-treated Kraft paper works well. Intrusive question: what kind of lead do you...

In Absurdistan, the only powders that we can get are all the French PNF and the Swiss black powders... The two BP best (for me and the Sharps) are the French PNF1 and the Swiss N°3. I did it a relatively long time ago, and it was with Swiss BP N°3. Now I prefer the French PNF1, it burns longer...

That's a nice shot and a nice rifle. :thumb: Concerning mine, I took away my Malcolm for a tang sight (Godwin replica): the escaping gas of the breech was beginning to burn the bluing and the rust could come under the sight. The second advantage is that with a Godwin in place of another vernier...

It doesn't come from an Uberti, you can be sure of that. There's only one other possibility: Uberti's aren't arbor-bottomed. If you got it as a used gun, maybe someone put it on the shaft end to make up for the length defect and that piece fell down...

Ha, for you too... :( It is the same way on this side of the Channel: the small fine shooting lead is replaced by steel in the wet zones, and the bismuth begins to appear for the smooth bore. They are talking about this for target shooting too, but it'll be only the bismuth I guess: steel won't...

It's the moving plate that closes the breech (as best it can, sometimes) and never the tubes or the bases of the cartridges.

Nothing but what suits my weapons. I use many more patched round bullets than anything else, which doesn't stop me from using compressible bullets and Minié bullets... Look at your/s arms in terms of twist rate, caliber, deep groves or not, etc. Round balls or conical bullets are things that...

https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/forum-rules.108881/ : I don't think that the tubes (brass or plastic/nylon/rubber) different of the era are allowed, but the paper cartridges of the Sharps rifles its ok... It may be a bad understanding of what I read in what is concerning the...

Well, I don't have an "unmentionable" weapon, not only one. I think it is something with my mind: I don't feel good with those arms. 150 years past the BP revolvers did more than correctly the job, so why not now... Anyway, the problem is out for me, in Absurdistant the laws and regulations are...

I went to the range the whole day, and you know what: I tired now... :D

Hi, I can't get that kind of tool in Absurdistan. Can somebody tell me the conicity of this tool (I have a lathe)... THKS. Erwan.

Just what I thought, I don't really need to know for shooting, but I like to know how and why... For the rest, and more than sixty years than I'm using flints, buy the simple size of 7/8, 3/4 or1/2" is always good, maybe the French way of cutting stones needs only one dimension... Halalalala...

And next year, we'll be eating Soylent Green... :ghostly:

I often see, when I read articles or replies, that you seem to have two dimensions for a flint whereas we only have one. I'm in the process of placing a small order for "consumable" items, and I've just been thinking about it... In the picture, I need 7/8" flints and, on the face of it, I'd be...

I think you're right, I live in a region (Poitou) where flint production was important, and the fact is that for transport, flint barrels were always wet. At least that's what people still say today. Of course, I'm only talking about the blond flints of Poitou and Berry (the biggest producers)...

Yes but by the mouth first... 🙂

You only need to find ashes of hardwood and saltpeter. Wash the cord with the ash to eliminate the lignin, impregnate it with a solution of saltpeter and let it dry in a flat position: never hang your cord. So it will be good. You can also use a bit of lead acetate, but it becomes very difficult...

I'm not a fan of the patches dry/lubed: the first shot is good et after nothing cleans the bore. I use pure neatsfoot oil (any other oil can replace it: a friend of mine uses canola oil): that makes perfectly the lubrication and cleans the barrel (soft or rifled barrel)...

Hi, sir Boniface Harrison, For caps look here, Philippe won't have enough for long time (une commande reçue avant 15h.00 part le soir même), it is not too expensive in the time we live...