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OOPs, I meant to post the link, Yes Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SXLSLJ0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 There are cheaper versions where they include the nock, may not be as bright which is fine for muzzle loaders but not smaller unmentionables.

I saw a guy at the range once do that. he had a stick that had the lubed conicals and a cover that he made to slide as he pulled one off at a time. He slid the top and dropped them one at a time onto a small plank of wood then picked up and dropped into the muzzle. He did not seem to mess up...

I'll be interested to see the results. Wow, 3% inside, you need a humidifier bad! That's gonna generate static which may not appear to harm electronics, but they get micro fractures and then fail later when it temperature cycles. Dry air is not always good for the lungs either. My main house...

My $ is on the fact that the OP's test had 2 variables and not just one. 60FPS is what? 3% change?

FYI, I use a lighted arrow noch replacement that I drop down any barrel I look at a gun show. If it was a bulge, it would have a dark ring there at the bulge. These are the particular ones I use cause they are easy to activate and are so small, they are like less than .2" in diameter. Yes, I...

No picture but my son 3D printed a dozen about 4 years ago for me.

Touch hole is smaller than 1/16" right now. I dropped 10gr of cream of wheat down the barrel then unscrewed the liner. Here are pics before and after dropping the cream of wheat. Plus the inside of the liner. I noticed the patches I have been using to clean are so big that they extend past the...

I will say that at the range that day, I did NOT feel like the resistance was higher while pulling the jag out. I'll have to measure the cleaning patches, but I know I was using my .336 dia jag.

Thx, I do prick before and after charging. I do have 3F to use. I have already been using 4F in the pan.

After finally breaking down and getting a Lee Hardness kit and testing my lead, I have concluded that my thumbnail test just told me it was lead. Now that I have measured all my current ingots and sorted them from Brinell harness of 5 thru 12, I can see how most of my dive weights were around...

Took my Dixie Cub .40 cal to range Saturday. Had about 2 misfires where it flashed in the pan but did not ignite the main charge. I only had an hour so split the session with 1/2 hour on the flinter. The first one, I poked the touch hole, charged the pan and went again and it ignited. Second...

I just got in my Lee Hardness tester yesterday. (Amazon Prime delivered same day $68). It opened my eyes to how hard the lead I was using. It uses a spring and has a little indicator to tell you that the spring is pressed to the calibrated pressure. Looking at it I was not sure it did not just...

I had been using dive weights for the past few years. Just recently got a Lee hardness tester and it was an eye opener comparing the balls I had been making to Hornady balls and TOW Minie balls. The TOW Minie ball hardness was off the scale (to the soft / pure end). My stuff was way harder...

The .390 mold came with the kit when I got it from the pawn shop along with the .375 balls that were in a baggie,Some small lubed patches, some extra flints and leather for the Jaws. I remember when shooting the .375 balls that they went down REALLY easy. I have some different patches to use...

I had originally thought that but the balls I originally shot from it were .375 and it says CAL .40 right there on the top of the barrel. I just cast a bunch of .390 balls this weekend for it. The .390 balls will drop in and fall back out w/o a patch.

thx, Is there a way to know how much to turn them down without shooting and cleaning the powder residue? I know that when cleaning, it should be harder to pull then push but when sizing it, I have a clean barrel.

So, I have a Dixie Gun works 40 cal flint (cub?) kit that I purchased from a Pawn shop a couple years ago and built up. I did not shoot it much the first year cause I was so busy moving. I'm hoping to shoot it more this spring. It came with a jag that was .335 in diameter. The tip was more...

Question, How small of a load would you begin to worry about filling up a patent breech and still get compression on the load when the ball is seated?

when your done use anti sieze or what ever you have like nipple grease when you put a new one on. I have various kinds but have the CVA anti sieze stick in my BP field box I'm sure there is someone here with other suggestions like boiling the bone marrow of dead squirrels and mixing with fox...

Pull trigger while slowly pulling the hammer back from half cock. Once its back. slowly let hammer down till it holds. Practice this till its second nature. I was in the woods with my Lyman Hawken and the doe was so close that the set trigger click made it take off. No solution I know of for...