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If your brass won’t bend, it’s most likely an alloy closer to (if not actually) bronze. If your brass has a pale yellow color or a slightly pinkish tone, it’s not proper gun metal brass.

For paper, .65” For patched, actual bore size - patch thickness x 2 = ball size

Who are you talking to here?

Volume 1 of the Encyclopedia of Fur Trade Goods from the Museum of the Fur Trade is the most extensive. The others listed above are good as well.

The shortage has been created by those who cannot see far enough ahead to stock up on stuff. They panic buy, thus creating the flippers who take advantage of other’s stupidity.

Shooters do seem to have a habit of complicating their hobby.

I can think of at least 1 example of when greasing the sliding surfaces isn’t a wise idea but we don’t talk about that stuff here. But in general grease on sliding parts is wise.

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You are way off base here.

Back when men were hard noses due to the reality of life, lavender was a manly scent. And pink was also manly.

You revived a long dead thread to reply to a person that has passed on.

I’ve been using Ballistol exclusively for many years now, to include on expensive metrology tools at work and have not once had the stuff gum up. Mineral oil, which is the main component of Ballistol (and most other gun oils) is a paraffin, and paraffins do not gum up, not even the wax. The only...

Historically, blued barrel, bright lock and TG.

Where did I say anything resembling your first assumption? 50years and your musket still isn’t correct? My musket was correct the first year, my uniform the second, my gear the 3rd. And I AM NOT INVOLVED IN YOUR HOBBY. The maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters.

All hand made anything is not going to be perfect, that’s a given. At what point did barrels start to be bored from a solid? It was a long number of years before the US had the technology to stop forming wrought iron around a mandrel. Even the highly advanced French gunmakers had problems...

You really are a dried leaf in the breeze. I remember quite well you agreeing with what I’ve said on this subject in the past. You are king flip flop. Go with that breeze.

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All military muskets, rifle-muskets and rifles.

Unless you are going to an invitation only event, usually small and centered around an actual focus living history you will encounter a majority of farbs. So, most public events, especially battles, are farbfests. This thread is proof. Everyone is quick to spout excuses why they willingly carry...

Go to harbor freight and get one of them rock tumblers and tumble your balls. They did it then, and it works now.