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What I said was, there would be less constriction in a 16 or 20 gauge than in a 10 or 12 gauge. I do have my reading glasses on. Have a great weekend.

Britsmoothie, it may be common, as there is a considerable range in how chokes are dimensioned between makers. The difference between 10 and 12 gauge bore diameters is only about .05". I have books on the shelf, and given more time than I presently wish to spend Googling, can find online...

Chokes are proportionate to bore diameter. A 16 gauge or 20 gauge barrel will have less constriction than a 10 or 12 gauge. A little Googling will turn up charts of choke constrictions for degree of choke and gauge.

You didn't change the dimensions of the bullets. Even a small trace of antimony, arsenic, or a few other elements that don't exist in "solid solution" in lead at room temperature are in solid solution in hot bullets right out of the mold. Chilling them quickly traps it in that state, but it's...

I remember when I was in first grade in Livingston, Alabama, out on the playground, hearing a dynamite truck explode about 7 miles away in York. Then, when I was in med school in Birmingham, hearing a Hercules dynamite plant explode in Bessemer, a little farther away.

Those are typically done after removing the breeches.

As for the caliber, that's a 16 bore. I remember Stoeger's Shooter's Bible carrying several sorts of Belgian trade muskets for sale in the 1960s-70s. They would likely have had such a marking stamped on the barrel, but I've not seen one in person. (I used to drool over the 4 bore flintlock!)

Antler is bone. Horn is keratin. The same protein that the surface of the skin, hair, nails, and hooves are composed of.

Bass Pro does. In the toy section.

Mine's about 9 pounds, as well.

You can use regular shotgun loads in a fowler, fusil, or whatever. I have a fowler (wait just a bit, someone will show up to correct me that it should be a "fowling piece") that was said to be .69 caliber. I measured inside the muzzle .677". Look up tables of gauge or round lead ball diameters...

I understood that as another way of saying "rule of thumb."

Horn, hooves, nails, and hair are keratin.

He had his chrony right in front of the target. I'm not sure what range he was shooting, it looked like perhaps 50 yards. Round balls shed velocity rapidly, and more so as the velocity goes up. Muzzle velocity would have shown somewhat more spread. Of course, velocity at impact is what counts.

Toy caps are not what they used to be. They are very weak, because of a US government standard limiting noise that's intended to protect children from hearing damage. I've been punching out the active "dots" from roll caps and inserting them inside the plastic caps to boost them. I still have...

Stoeger used to offer in the Shooter's Bible a 4 bore smoothbore flintlock. They had several other offerings, like a 14 bore "Buccaneer's Gun" with long bright red painted stock. They were said to be either old Belgian made guns for African trade, or assembled from Belgian parts made for such...

Yes, they are. Toy caps are loaded with some variant of Armstrong's Mixture. Classically potassium chlorate and red phosphorus, sometimes with sulfur, sometimes with perchlorate instead of chlorate.

Tannic acid and phosphoric acid are the two principal "rust converters." Browsing around, there's lots of stuff online about tannic acid solution, cold, turning rust into a black film. People using walnut hull dye caution that rust in a pot will turn the solution black. Trappers have long...

Lee double cavity .600" round ball mould This makes mighty nice .600 balls.