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Squash or pumpkin pie average Joe wouldn’t know the difference, all the flavors are the spices used.

I spent my teen years in Cincinnati, White Castle was my hang out, sliders by the dozen a nice meal, but in stuffing ? Novel ideal. Now Cincinnati five way chili, oh my, thanksgiving, Christmas or any day of the week………

Did that two decades ago with my first pot A Used gun show buy of a Lyman Mag 20. Leaked so bad I had a guy weld up the bottom pour spout. The next, a used Lee 5 pounder, ditto, a current brand new Lee production pot is frozen most of the time but I’ve never gotten into the bottom pour thing...

I earned my living splicing telephone cables in an era when lead sheathing was common. Cleaning lead for soldering, melting and pouring lead for end plates to accept large diameter lead sleeving for gas tight splice cases in an underground environment were daily tasks. The phone company tested...

I’ve always found it a bit odd that the simple task of melting lead and pouring it into a mold seems a complicated task to some, especially something as simple as a round ball. Other than the ability to seat the ball in a revolver hardness has little bearing at the velocities generated with...

Spent the last 20 years of winters living in SW Florida, now permanently back in New England air temperature below 45f is strictly indoor shooting. 😁😜

Shooting with a friend has become a weekly social. Mondays breakfast at 9am at a local diner, range from 10 AM to past 12 then coffee at the local DD. Wednesdays range from 9:30 or so to past 12 noon then lunch at different locations. Home usually by 2pm. Been doing this for several years now...

Yep, and Google any recipe and read the after comments, everybody wants to add their own thing. Human nature I guess.

While a snowbird in SW Florida for 19 years I shot at the Sarasota Counties Knights Trail range once or twice a week. A public range so never alone but usually the only black powder shooter. Now full year round in my home state I shoot twice a week with a friend. We are generally the only ones...

Yes but I meant in todays setting. Re-enactments I suppose.

where does one fire such a thing and at what.

I bought and used up many pounds of Graf and Sons house brand, Schutzen, before they switched it to Goex. I didn’t even notice the switch until I happened to read the cans label. But all I do is punch paper with percussion revolvers or breech loading ACW era carbines. Anvil launching may be a...

Sounds like a water based aniline dye and not a stain. Sweaty hands would rub it off. Needs a top coat of a water resistance finish.

I believe the No lead shot law was intended for water fowl hunting and was based on much the same reason DDT was outlawed. Protection of the species from harmful effect s of ingested substances. Doves aren’t apt to picking up lead pellets from the ground.

Ditto for Rhode Island. As to serial numbers I have a Remington NMA and a Burnside Carbine whose serial number dates them to the ACW. Would seem serial number were originally intended for purposes other than firearm registration purposes.

So the powder charge burst is pushing the wad and the wad is pushing the shot load but some how the wad is moving faster than the shot load and winds up ahead of the pellets. Interesting. .

Would seem I’ve irked you Mr Britsmoothy. My apologies if so, certainly wasn’t intentional. Assume is just a figure of speech.

I agree. I only shoot revolvers and occasionally pistols. Revolvers are limited by how much one can fill the chamber and still seat the ball below flush and allow the cylinder to turn. Filling a Walkers chamber with 4F would, I assume produce a spectacular gout of flame from both muzzel and...

Wasn’t a suggestion. Just an observation of the hazards of using measurements of grains by volume and weight. I think it’s been proven that in long barrel black powder guns it would be difficult to use enough powder, unless done so deliberately, to actually blow a gun apart using black powder...

If those small piles were actually thrown by equal volume it would be indicative of why it could be hazardous, if shown by actual weight it would illustrate the quantity of the charge. Equal energy by weight regardless of granulation.