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Congress Stones do a great job, several grits available. Sometimes you can use die sinkers chisels to clean up the details on the face of a casting - very fine jeweler's rasps can be used. They are like fine files in funny shapes at the ends.

I'm with Flinter Nick and always put anti-seize on plug threads.

In a certain south-eastern nation, a certain time of year provided some very heavy rains. We didn't have muzzleloaders, but kept a condom over the muzzle any way.

When Agent Orange started affecting me in 2008, I developed a lot of tremor in my right hand. About the only way I could come near a target was to use shot bags. About a year ago, my VA neurologist got me a device called a Cala-CLQ, pronounced "Cala-click". It is a device that goes on your...

Back in the 1980's I was learning skywriting and working as a Park Ranger at a Florida State Park. The Captain assigned me to mow a 2-acre grassed open area; had one of the riding mowers that you lowered the cutting deck to actually mow. Took a good look, and thought, "More sky-writing...

Glad to have another "strict Constitutionalist" on the bestest ML forum!

If you do decide to repair it in the future, take it to someone who repairs jewelry. They are quite accustomed to silver-soldering little bits together.

So it's a 1 1/2 pounder? Superb workmanship!

Cursing my rotting body! Was really wanting to go visit all y'all, but circumstances just didn't cooperate!!!

Welcome! Used to live in Weleetka, eastern OK is great for hunting!

I've got a bore brush stuck in an old .45 barrel - the brush actually separated where the twisted wires end at the terminal of the brush part. Tried the hollow brass tube trick, but my brass tube is neither long enough nor of a sufficient ID to do the job. And the breechplug has been in well...

Be very happy that the Feds have not yet become aware of this yet, otherwise we are all going to become prick-less!

Looks similar to a 6-pound Naval gun, but honestly never saw one without the carriage.

Glad to have you here, Rick. Gettysburg has long been a favorite site to visit. There are several areas where it seems you can feel the men who died there, a very eerie, yet calming sensation. Men of honor, men fighting for a belief. Very hallowed ground.

I enjoy carving from time to time. A nicely roasted turkey or goose, a delicious pot roast. Even a good boiled cow tongue carved into slender wafers for a sammich. Wood - I did carve a squirrel on a gunstock for a fellow's squirrel gun...

Smoked a pipe until about 1985. Was taking off from a grass field outside West Palm Beach. Went to knock the dottle from my pipe on the vent window - the airstream took my beloved Meerschaum pipe away! I was hot to get back to Pensacola, carrying parts for our "Mail Plane", an aged Twin...

Welcome aboard, David. You'll find us to be a motley crew of smoke sniffers.

Glad to have you here, Prowler.

Welcome, Melbie - glad to have you here.

That is a personal canteen, not a powder flask.