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Not sure I believe that story... though it has been told many times. I generally load 30-35 grains of fffg black powder or the same volume of 777. Years ago, I acquired an Armi San Marco Walker. I loaded it with 60 grains ONCE. It turned out to be more of a handful than I liked. I dropped...

Been using this for decades. Never had any issues with it. As with all things; your mileage may vary, but nobody at T/C ever told anyone that it would prevent rust.

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Went out and shot a plastic bottle with the Yellow Bird Gun. When done, put my gun and possibles bag in my chair on the front porch, went into the house, took my meds, grabbed my Kindle and went back out to finish my Jack Reacher novel. Discovered that Vir had taken up a guard post in my chair...

Thanks for asking.... doing OK all things considered. Busy with projects... today fabricated parts to fix a toilet. Has a wrench as the flushing lever.

I'm no longer brave enough to do something like that inside a building. I once pulled the bullet from a .50 BMG round and heated the primer with a propane torch thinking that the crimped primer would pop and stay in place so I could replace the bullet and have it look like a live shell. The...

From time to time I have not cleaned a gun for as long as a week with no ill effects. Not a good idea, but if you keep the gun in a dry location after shooting you should have minimal rusting if any. Now, leaving a dirty gun in the basement, out on the porch or in the trunk of your car you can...

.550 multi-ball load? Should perform about like a .410 2 1/2" buckshot load. Dunno how well it would perform on deer past ten yards of so. .. and it would kick like your favorite metaphor.

Sat on the back porch with William who was casting long heavy .550 caliber bullets that are designed to have a clay plug in the back end of them. We still have to locate a clay bank somewhere so we can make the plugs... but that was for another day. When I discovered the diameter of his...

Well, that's a plan I suppose... butcha might be waiting a while. I'd probably go if given a chance, but most people would not want to take the risks involved in space travel. I've always wondered what would have happened if the locals had banded together to resist European colonization. Even...

No. In a manuscript I wrote years ago, the colony was called "Limerick", though the egg-heads had another name for it. Those colonists were woefully inadequate right from the planning stages. Building their settlement in a river flood plain was their undoing. Atlatls and other primitive...

We'd be drinking home-distilled Romulan ale. ;)

Well, if somebody else is footing the bill for a practical starship, they'd have to pick and choose from those who stepped up to volunteer. Say you got a hundred seats and a thousand volunteers.... most of whom would be pretty useless people as colonists beyond their abilities to reproduce...

They'd better... who else would be an expert on muzzle-loading firearms, flint-napping, blacksmithing or just improvising in general?

Yes... my model was Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky.

Well, you wouldn't be alone on a hunt like that hopefully. There'd be others carrying guns as well, so the lion or tiger would not have a realistic chance against a group of us. In the past they've been killed with spears. The biggest problem is that they'd likely start to hunt us and would...

Good stuff....

Well, hopefully they have a set of Foxfire books and printed encyclopedia sets in their well-stocked library. High tech won't survive very long without an advanced infrastructure to support it. If they have good intelligent people with good educations and nothing really bad happens, they...

Welll.... Yeah, I suppose you do! ;) It's a nice loophole I never considered. Old saying, I think by Robert Heinlein: "A woman can never be disarmed because most of her weapons are natural." In my experience, this is most certainly true. In any case, yeah, take the whole kit and kaboodle...

... on the second human colony off planet. The place you are going has plenty of rabbit-like, squirrel-like and game-birdish creatures that can be eaten by us safely. There are also several large predator species that some egghead who planned your mission decided would be a good idea to...