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Where I live they no longer sell scrap lead. At least not the last time I checked... Used to buy all the time. Last time I went in it was no sales.

Thats why you do a group buy... But they sell in smaller quantities as well...

https://www.buffaloarms.com/bullet-casting-supplies/bullet-casting-alloys-pure-lead Dan

Some rifles shoot harder lead just fine, like wheel weight alloy. But require a thinner patch sometimes. If the barrel has wide lands and deep grooves this might not work well. And a LOT of new made W-Ws are ZINC and one in a pot of lead makes it all scrap. So if you can find a scrap yard that...

Today I would use Break Free CLP for long term bore protection and if not in a gun safe allow free movement of air.... I stored mine in Iowa in 1970 for my time in the Army and had no issues. No gun safe, no dehumidifier, no rust. Think I used RIG in the bores.... Dan

Don't store guns in a case or wrapped in anything. You now know why.... Remember the the blue and rust remover is HIGHLY CORROSIVE (its worse then the rust) and must be carefully neutralized or it it will just keep eating the metal. Lots of warm water and then a lot of warm baking soda watern(no...

Coarse cloth? They had much finer linen available in the past than now. The Egyptians, for example, had linen cloth so fine it was see through or so I have read. IIRC Audubon wrote than Boone used "shirt bosom linen" for patches. This would not have been course linen. It is the modern ML shooter...

Your setting on a fuel tank with extremely powerful and very easily ignited gasoline and BP scare you? Vaporized gasoline, for example, is at least as bad as nitro glycerin. There have been people who stepped on cans of powder during a Tipi fire are rendezvous and it ignited and all it did was...

Finding actual bore sizes is a PITA in my experience, often the same rifle is listed with two different bore sizes in two different descriptions. There is a lot of conflicting information. We have some, after the fact I might add, that claim the early rifles were large bore. Then we have JJ...

The ball size of the American military rifle may have been a response to the British Military rifle of the time (1800) which was a 62 caliber, 20 balls to the pound. The thing we REALLY need to look at here is surviving rifles civilian rifles that have not been bored smooth. If we do this then...

Look folks, there have ALWAYS been three classes. Gun owners who basically know, usually, which end of a rifle the bullet comes out of, shooters who actually shoot now and then but who's skills are often so poor they usually can't shoot a decent group with a good rifle and load. See this on the...

I think we need to look at the trajectories rather than the remaining velocity. RBs shed velocity at a rapid rate and even at 1800+ most 45-54 cals will be falling subsonic at 100. In a HUNTING rifle trajectory is important unless all the game is shot at pistol distances. Dan

My 16 bore rifle (ball weighs exactly an ounce) makes 1600 fps with 140gr of ff Swiss. This is almost exactly 1/3 ball weight. It shoots fairly flat, but the larger ball retains velocity a little better than a 45-50 caliber will. The problem with the 1/2 ball weight is that is only works for...

The barrel weighs 6 pounds. Not the rifle. If I read it right. So far as powder charges. The men who were shooting people at extended ranges, like the 300 yard shot at Gen. Fraser, were not shooting a thimble full of powder. Hanger would be a better source, and I have quoted him, if he did not...

The BURN rate is determined by the granule size. FFFF is twice the burn rate of FFF and so forth based on the SURFACE area of 20 gr of FFFF vs the surface area of FFF. This is when used a propellant. GOOD BP made with the PROPER ingredients will not suck up excess water from the air. However...

Formulas usually only work for on small range of bore sizes. 1/2 ball weight works great for some calibers like 44-50. And its documented to the Revolutionary War period by the writings of Col. Hanger. But is too much for some calibers and not enough for others. A 32 caliber may need 30-35 to...

What is happening to the flints are they breaking off? Just not sparking? There are many causes. Weak frizzen and/or mainspring can be an issue. Frizzen cast from the wrong alloy. Frizzen rebound striking the flint can break them off short in one shot or over a period of shots. If they stop...

Is the bore PITTED? Has it been used with pyrodex. Are you shooting with a patch lube with ANY petroleum in it? If its pitted or even frosted looking it will foul and be hard to clean. If its EVER been used with pyrodex with a BP "booster" then its surely pitted. Unburned powder means the bore...

If a loose fitting jag is used and a large patch it will run over the fouling going down and then bunch up and pull it out on the up stroke. AS a friend of mine said "you don't have to wipe between shots, but you have to wipe between shots to WIN". Speaking of 60 yard matches using a plank rest...

Its probably powder related. 50 grains is not enough to get accuracy from any 54 I ever owned. I also use FFF. Also try a different patch lube. Some patch lubes will require wiping. If the ball goes down hard accuracy will suffer. Well refined beef tallow makes a good patch lube and loads easy...