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  1. .36Rooster

    FOR SALE .50 barrel off-cuts

    Any guys wanting to learn how to cut a dovetail ought to grab one of these. Perfect the technique on a piece of scrap instead of experimenting on a fine rifle.
  2. .36Rooster

    Tell me of your cleaning rituals

    Take the barrel off stock, Fill a metal bucket with boiling hot water. Add a squirt of dish soap. Remove nipple and drop in the bucket, put breech into bucket, put a patch on a cleaning jag and hydraulically pump ramrod up and down sucking water up into the barrel in and out like a syringe. Then...
  3. .36Rooster

    Round ball out of fast twist barrel

    Yes. Just use less powder. For example, Most people don't know that the Thompson center Cherokee was designed for round balls, and they put a 1:32 twist on it on purpose. The reason was because the little .32 caliber gun was designed in consultation with a black powder squirrel hunter, who...
  4. .36Rooster

    Period correct rangefinder

    You don't need to buy one to get the dimensions. Choose an object of the height you wish, say 30 inches for a deer at the shoulder. Measure out 10 yds, sight, and scribe a witness mark, then measure out 20 yds, sight, and scribe a witness mark,...and keep repeating out to about 125-150 yds or...
  5. .36Rooster

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Blizzard up here put me out of work. Did some more work shaping and filing this semi buckhorn to my liking: Pricked the loose end with a punch to tighten it up and re-filed: And rubbed it with bluing:
  6. .36Rooster

    Next project rifle

    He must have had plenty of time to clean it off while saving up for a new toy to work on...
  7. .36Rooster

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Cut 2 threads each off of the screws for the ramrod pipes on a .36 caliber rifle I picked up. Gave it a thorough scrubbing with scotch brite to remove a light coat of rust and reveal a shiny bore, greased all screws and moving parts, and got halfway through hand cutting a blank rear sight into a...
  8. .36Rooster

    Any reason not to cone a pistol muzzle?

    The only reason I can come up with is that with only 10 inches of rifling in your barrel, you may not have any to spare. I don't know the answer, but it's something to think about.
  9. .36Rooster

    Finding a place to shoot artillery with projectiles ??

    Drive over to south Dakota. Plenty of space over here. Target shooting is legal on public land. But...I don't know about that kind of target shooting...
  10. .36Rooster

    Chemistry Question

    Leave out the water, rubbing alcohol, and the witch hazel, add some lamb tallow, heat the mixture, dip your patches, and squeegee the excess off like I do. The liquid mixture is mainly only useful for cleaning.
  11. .36Rooster

    Squirrel Hunting and shooting RB into the air.

    The trick after locating a squirrel is to stalk in a circle fashion until you've arrived at a position, in range, with the tree trunk or a thick limb directly behind the squirrels head. This way your ball sinks into solid wood after it passes through the squirrel. The challenge is part of the...
  12. .36Rooster

    .32 Rifle selection question

    I think you're missing something.
  13. .36Rooster

    .32 Rifle selection question

    I really don't know for certain to be honest. But I worry a bit about the full sized pedersolis being a bit front heavy due to their lack of a swamped bore with and that long barrel. I have had full stocks in the past that are very difficult to shoot offhand due to that reason. Obviously not a...
  14. .36Rooster

    .32 Rifle selection question

    I have never shot one of the pedersoli full stocks, but I am a little skeptical of their weight and balance. I might pay a few extra dollars and invest in a slimmer gun with a thinner stock, and a swamped barrel. I have no such skepticism of half stock rifles however, as most balance...
  15. .36Rooster

    Going Deer Hunting with my Antique 13 Gauge SxS.

    I wonder if loading that left barrel with a higher powder charge to achieve the same velocity as the right barrel might also shrink its 50yd group to the same size as well....
  16. .36Rooster

    Routine when shooting

    Don't forget to examine your fired patches for holes, cuts, burns or tears; and to try a few lighter and heavier powder charges. And thicker and thinner patches. Correcting problems with these three aspects will do more to shrink your groups than anything else.
  17. .36Rooster

    What to do in between hunts....

    At the beginning of the season, give the gun a thorough cleaning, and a light coat of oil inside and out, followed by a dry swab of the barrel, and run a dry pipe cleaner through the flash channel. Load your gun with real black powder, and use an oil based lube on your patch (rather than water...
  18. .36Rooster

    How Do I Get Rid of Old Percussion Caps?

    I would bet that they still work...and with the election year coming next year..., they might get hard to find again. I'd recommend just keeping them.
  19. .36Rooster

    Has anyone here successfully barked a squirrel?

    I do quite a bit of (black powder) pistol hunting for squirrels with very light powder charges. Directly underneath a small red squirrel sitting on a small limb of about an inch and a half thickness, I took a chest shot on the squirrel aiming up through the limb he was sitting on, reckoning the...
  20. .36Rooster

    Hammer/nipple alignment.

    That's more like it...looks like that hammer is landing squarely the way it should be. And the cup appears centered on the nipple more-or-less. Snap a few caps now with the gun unloaded and make sure they are actually firing on the first hammer blow. It's no gaurantee. You'd be surprised.
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