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That is a Nice collection you got there. Congratulations. Now you can get a cute little .31 revolver to add to the set.

Yes, nowadays lead is being regulated to death. Plus they are banning lead from more and more hunting areas too. We might have to resort to other things like copper, resin or sintered materials and use sabots with the rifled barrels. I bought a batch of lead from a plumber on eBay several years...

I used to go around to the various street intersections and pickup many pounds of wheel weights. The things would fall off the wheels quite easily. They gravitate to the debris trash portions of the street that the cars don’t drive in. But since they went to lead free wheel weights that had...

I used to go around to the street intersections and pickup the wheel weights that fall off the vehicle wheels. There used to be jillions of the things gr

Well, if all you have is a BP gun then that is what you have got to use. But using something more modern is still the best option.

Well for it disappearing off the shelves is pretty common. I remember going to BassPro and Cabelas and seeing empty and partially empty boxes of ammo scattered all about in the store. Thieves would take a box elsewhere in the store and empty it into their purses or pockets and then leave the box...

I liked what IanH did. That was an amazing rebuild got a old junker that would have been maybe rebar in a concrete something. Nice job. Congratulations. I would have never been able to fix something up that nice.

I just nip off the sprue and don’t worry about any nub remaining. Load it nub up. With our guns it does not affect the accuracy enough to matter any. The iron sights make it impossible to see any difference with or without a sprue nub. Thus nothing to worry about.

I think they used a spring inside the barrel to launch plastic cannon balls with a hole in the middle. Pretty neat though. I don’t remember ever seeing one live though. None of us kids in the neighborhood had one.

Well this can be very useful for outer space colonies etc. they would have very limited resources thus cultured meat would be a huge plus. Anyway at the rate the world population is growing this may be the only practical way to have meat on a dinner table. On the plus side this stuff is going...

I would start with 15-20 grains BP and what feels about right for the charge of cornmeal, whatever. It won’t take much BP.

Have one like that that I had bought way back in 1974. I had to get the Frizzen face hardened before it would spark. It worked fine then but the hardening got worn off and it quit sparking again. I hit another frizzen that might fit ok with some work. But I haven’t tried it out yet. I think that...

It ought to work but I think you need the Ferocerium rod embedded into the frizzen. Then use a knife blade or sharp flint to scrape along it to get the sparks. But maybe reversed would work if you can get the frizzen to scrape along the ferocerium.

I would probably just get a smoothbore barrel and breechplug and swap it out. They way you could convert it back someday too. Yeah I vaguely remember someone boring out a rifled barrel into a smoothbore. But I forget the details at the moment. I think it was Bobby Hoyt too. They were...

I also think it was the percussion cap shortages and black powder as well. But having a percussion revolver or a rifle really sucked if you could not buy caps for them. Then black powder is/was a problem too. Thus people tended to put them on the back burner as they couldn’t shoot them. Heck...

In thinking about it, they may have used a freight forwarder service. There are a lot of scams and horror stories with them too. A lot of ammo shipments go missing with UPS and DHL isn’t any better either. https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/fraudulent-freight-forwarders-and-their-scams/

Zelle should have been where the alarms went off. But that sounds like a shake down to me also.

Someone maybe loaded a ball without the charge and gave up on it and sold it. That might be a bit tricky to determine too. Then of course some guns have a stepped chamber that is smaller tgan the bore thus it could make one think it was loaded. Oh yeah a stepped chamber could catch a bullet...

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A12 gauge or 20 gauge double with shot, ball and slugs would do it just fine.