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"plans for such a sight" They were only plans because if they tried it, it would not work. Granted, if you stick enough rare earth magnets to the barrel, eventually they will handle recoil, 1 or 2 will not do it. I have a hard enough time getting regular slide adjustable sights to stay in...

It would never work. I doubt they would even hold on a 22LR.

While I like thin cards for shot, they don't work well with balls, and really not that great with buckshot either. Really 2 thin card wads with a bare ball is doing nothing, you may as well have just seated the ball right on the powder. Instead, try a number of felt wads, I'd start with three...

So what are you getting percentage wise for patterns?

That appears to be the perfect term for what this is. This particular spot seems like about half of it is semi-dry, only cattails, so the part I'm actually hunting is more or less straight, just a gentle curve. It is not a U shape at all, actually more of an S.

I'm not much of a picture person, but I'll see if I can't get anything worthy Saturday. I'd really like to get into some sandhill crane, but I haven't found any yet.

For whatever reason, this gun really loves #4 bismuth. I'm not complaining. For some strange reason, it does not seem to like B shot at all. My modern 10 gauge loves the stuff. I've tried a number of wads and shot charges. The only thing else I want to try is using cream of wheat as a shot...

Well I laid an egg yesterday on snow geese. I started off with no decoys, as I have no snow goose decoys. The first few waves had them landing in the next field over, about 150 yards past the property line I had permission for. I then set out all my honker decoys, about 75, a mix of silos...

I had a less than ideal day, but it could cumulate into an amazing tomorrow. It seems I was off the X, way off the X. I did get two ducks though. Two beautiful shoveler drakes, one shot each. They were crossing right in front of me, and were farther than I thought. The first one wasn't that far...

As far as I can tell, there is no specific definition of tallow. I see nothing that says it has to be organ fat. By all dictionaries I see, tallow is rendered animal fat, nothing more, nothing less. It absolutely can be used unaltered for muzzleloader purposes. Different animal fats have...

He made a point, and a good one. Application, not commonality should matter the greatest. Most popular calibers and bore sizes are usually that way for a reason, but not always.

There is some truth to this, but it really matters very little to a muzzleloading smoothbore. In the case of a round ball, you can make oddball sizes work fine. This isn't a sport where you need bullets to be plus or minus .02 of a grain, and need to be sized down to the .001". There is a pretty...

It works really well. It's what I shoot in my 54 caliber rifle, as it produces tighter groups than any other size. I noticed no difference in fouling or smoke. I'm not sure what you mean by comparable. Just load and shoot Fg, and find what shoots best. It will either work better, or it wont.

Well there's always a caveat, but it's mostly true with steel shot as well. I would say just flat out do no shoot steel of any kind out of an old muzzleloader, espeically an original with dmascus or twist steel barrels. In a modern steel muzzleloader like a Pedersoli, then the size of steel you...

And yet here you are, calling me names for disagreeing with you. Despicable, crass, goofy, snarky, young (that's an insult now?). Apparently I was born yesterday by your standards. Anything else you want to call me while you are at it? All I did was call a spade a spade.

That's probably about right. I'm also tolerant. I'll tolerate bad people and their choices, if it is their own. If they want to bottle them selves up because they think excitement is a bad then, then I don't care. As long as you aren't trying to force that upon others, as some in this thread...

That's a great story, and it makes me as happy as can be to hear it. There's nothing wrong at all with crying, even to this day, I tear up sometimes. As you found, there isn't much in life that offer such an instantaneous emotional burst, compressed into a single moment. That's the way it should...

I would never go against your experience Ron, as I know you have done the testing. I also know you are doing things with your rifles far and beyond the normal guy. 777 has one big drawback, and that is that the fouling forms very hard, AKA 777 crud ring. I'm going to go out on a limb and say...

"If the average 13-year-old knows that shouting and getting wound up over a harvest is silly" -Ganggreen If you believe this, you are a bad person. We should not be promoting bottling up emotions. That's the fast track to living a sad, miserable life. The fact that he felt embarrassed is simply...

It absolutely blows my mind that in this day and age that this kind of thinking still exists. I'm just going to say you are 100% wrong, and it is wrong of you to suggest that others suppress their emotions because you don't feel comfortable with your own.