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I have been buying things from John at Avalon for thirty years, in person and by mail. I highly recommend him. Good stuff, decent prices. He and his son are a couple of stand up guys. Jay

Trying to figure out how to leave feedback, which will be excellent because this was a great experience purchasing an excellent product at a reasonable price and getting it quickly. Jay

I mean, if you can’t kill an animal quickly and cleanly, I don’t believe you should go hunting. I use a muzzleloader instead of a bow for deer because I have not put in the time to improve my archery, and won’t take the chance of injuring one and losing it. We owe it to the animals we take to do...

Every deer I’ve killed on purpose has been taken with a .45 Hawken. (The others were mostly taken with a V6.) Some with .440s, some with .445s, and one with a REAL bullet. Every one has been taken with one shot, and I’ve never shot one at more than 50 yards - I owe it to them to keep within my...

If only I hadn’t literally just picked one up a week ago… Great little gun! Jay

In the book Little House in the Big Woods, which was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s recollection of her childhood in the early 1870s, she describes in detail how her father cast roundballs for his rifle and mentions his powder horn, so clearly some people were still using them. And when I was in junior...

Is this still available, Dutch? If so, I’ll be happy to take it. Jay

You can download it from Scribd for free.

I have a .535 roundball mould and have run a mess of balls. I’m still working on a load. I’d like to try some .530 balls, too. Anybody want to swap a couple dozen of your .530s for a couple dozen of my .535s? Jay

I’m quite happy with the 10x12 wall tent we bought from Blockade Runner several years ago. https://www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catpg30.htm Jay

I always gut them as soon as possible, and then usually skin them right after. Hide’s the first thing in the cooler- I braintan. The only time I’ve had someone else process a deer was the day I pulled my doe out of the woods behind my house and found an ambulance in the driveway, with a houseful...

Excuse, yes. Budget? 😭

In our collection we have a piece of bone inlay from a gun that they acquired last year. It’s very cool. Been thinking of adapting it to a flask. Jay

Pretty sure he meant that they’re using both steel targets and paper targets, not that they’re using steel shot on paper targets. Jay

My mould came in today so I ran a few balls to test out the White Mountain carbine. Those .535s wouldn’t fit with any of my usual patch material, but they did alright with wadding. (Yes, I know. But I was dying to make some smoke!) Something about shiny new balls… so shiny I can see myself in...

New videos every Wednesday, and we’re always open to suggestions for topics… Jay

Welcome aboard, Jim! There’s a few really familiar faces here, and a whole bunch of interesting people we don’t know yet… Jay

I was just coming in to post this link! 🤣 Parker is amazing- he’s been making armour since he was a teenager. Jay

If I put enough powder behind it, do you think I could get a bullet moving fast enough to travel through time back to when the deer was standing where I was aiming? Asking for a friend… Jay

I’ve used everything from a cast iron pot on a campfire to a brick furnace with side-draft bellows to propane jets and several electric pots. They all work, but when I need to run ball in quantity, nothing beats my Lee drop-bottom pot. If you’re only pouring a few at a time, a Hot Pot 2 is a...