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Kinda surprised they don't mention the AK Peninsula. Lotta chert out there, all red or green. The red is finer grained and makes great gun flints. Lots of it was used by the ancestors to make points. The green seems "softer" and doesn't flake near so well. I got a big delivery of the red about...

Mine is an older Pedersoli Bess carbine with a bore running bigger than current manufacture Pedersoli's from what I understand, miking in at .750. It's actually an 11 gauge (compared to .775 of a true 10 gauge and .729 of a 12 gauge). Sue me if you want, but I still get pleasure from calling...

Atsa way. There's a whole lot of leather out there that's not in leather stores, and if you keep your eye on thrift stores you can get it for less than most folks pay for the ticking they use for patches. My brother retired his old welding chaps, apron and gauntlets, but just couldn't bring...

Dunno your Enfield, but all five of my 58's love the stuff. I'd sure go through a sequence to work up loads and let the Enfield speak for itself. Almost certain to be a little larger charges than you're currently using, but it would be a surprise to me if you can't find a load that makes you smile.

I had one with a standard long barrel and found it useless for wing shooting and fast moving small game. Just too heavy, long and awkward, and not at all fun to carry all day in the field. Never tried it with ball on deer. Picked up an early Pedersoli with the "carbine" barrel much like Brit's...

I can't imagine how it crystallized. But I'm not a chemist and my oldest bear oil is only about 35 YOA. And there's about a pint of it in the container. And it's almost certainly a different species of bear. Still, I kinda wonder what a little heat, maybe not more than hand warmth, would do to...

Atsa mouthful right there! Nothing in the world like that great smell and the sight of a new spread of leather between your hands.

Longest shot on game, around 70 yards. Longest shooting on targets somewhere out near 500 yards. We live right on some deserted shores of open ocean, so without danger to anyone we can take shots at rocks and kelp and anything else poking above the water as far as we can see them. Kinda fun...

I've only found one complaint with TLG- Often his dyed leather is only surface dyed, so when you cut out a piece you get a white to tan margin all around. Not a problem if you don't use dyed leather or if you have your own dye to hit the edges. Frustrating as heck when you need dyed and don't...

One bit of unsolicited advise about attaching straps to thin leather: If there's ever going to be any weight in the bag, place a tab of leather on the inside, then sew through it, the bag and the strap at either end. Thin leathers tear real easy, but the extra padding from the tab mostly...

If it's a new Lyman with CCI caps, they're notorious for not fitting and not going pop, at least on the first hammer strike. Switch nipples or switch caps, and all should be well.

I'm curious which gun you're talking about, what powder you're using, and especially a description of your cleaning. I've seen zackly your problems in guns with buildup of hard fouling in the breech. In fact I spent a whopping $100 on my favorite 58 caliber, a short-barrel TC Hawken built...

Sounds as though you're using the wrong 209s. There are versions built waterproof for wet weather and the cold, and I'm here to tell you that they work a treat in my modern reloading for just those conditions. I can't see a reason in the world they'd suddenly have problems in a muzzleloader.

In the days of wood heat we always kept a big tea kettle on top of the stove. Worked great because we always had hot water, a great luxury when there are no pipes coming into or out of the house. These days we fixed that, but we still keep a big old tea kettle on top of our oil heater.

No kidding! Looking forward to your results.

No pics, but I make mine from the hard "knuckle" at the base of a deer horn. Easy as pie to make and look pretty cool too. All the little nobs around the edge make it real easy to grasp and hold in place. Took all of 10 minutes to make with a drill and common hand tools.

There it is. Or if you have to sit, stay VERY upright rather than leaning down and into it like most everyone you see shooting puny calibers. Keep your waist loose and allow your body to rock back. Best I've seen, or maybe second best, was a "standing" benchrest at our local club here in the...

Not on your life.... Or at least the life of your gun stock. If you're clanking away with max recoil loads in big boomers you need some "give" to help the stock survive. The most popular devise I know of for proof testing is strapping your gun to an old tire and torching it off with a long...

I live in the land of big boomers, both modern and muzzleloading. Probably more large bores per capita than anywhere else in the country. And I'm here to tell you that the prohibition against lead sleds doesn't stop at muzzleloaders. I've seen enough high-end modern rifles, many of them fine...

For best results, don't hold it vertically except for chopping cuts. Hold the blade horizontal to the ground and orient what you're cutting toward the blade- like a fish laying on its side. To cut rotate the ulu back and forth by flexing your wrist rather than swinging your arm. That lets you...