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I was able to locate some tight weave cotton material .015 thick so I bought two meters of the stuff it’s 60” wide. I cut some into 1-1/2” strips and made a ballistol/water mix then soaked them and hung them to dry. I also cast 100 410gr 533 dia Minnie balls then an experiment. I paper patched 40 to see how they’ll work in my TC Renegade. ( I have two barrels, one is a stock 1-48” and the other is a green mtn 1-66” for PBRs). So, as soon as I can, I’ll be out testing my minies
IIRC the strips soaked in ballistol/water mix benefit from being laid flat on a non porous surface to dry
(or they will dry in a non uniform manner with a differing amount of lube end to end). If your strips produce variable results you might try that.
 
Picked out a nice live edge piece of Black Walnut to put above my desk… Nice to show off the goods.To Pretty to sit in a safe, I’ll get some hooks for mounting.
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built up a set trigger blade with weld and ground and polished it. someone ground it into a sliver. made a main trigger spring to replace the one i made 1/32" too short yesterday.just about had the thing done when i got a sos from the bride. her car quit on her again.
spent the rest of the day in he....... er town.
 
Tried out my new smoothbore .62 with shot and round ball. Blew up some pumpkins
 

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Finish sanding the butt end of a Lehigh Valley rifle. Hopefully , tomorrow, will begin to decorate it. This gunstock was a highest grade pc. of curly , hard sugar maple wood , that after the stock was pre-carved , the wood cracked in half through the lock panels to the entry thimble. To fix this mess , a 10" , x 3/8" Pc of thin wall brass tubing was inlet to restore the r/r hole from the entry thimble to the underside of the breech. Next the barrel was wrapped w/one thickness of plastic shopping bag, to act as a release agent. W/ everything prepped ,a quantity of common 5 min. Epoxie was poured into the longitudinally split, pre-inlet barrel channel . Next day , all the repair Epoxie was hardened , and the parts re-inlet into their respected places. A 3/8 " r/r drill was gently passed into the entry thimble hole to remove any small hardened drops of Epoxie from the r/r hole to the breech. Finished inletting the remaining parts , now sanding the butt stock in prep for decoration w/ carving , engraving , stain , and finish. The rifle should be a looker , and to think it was destined for the wood stove , due to it being broken. ......oldwood
 
yesterday i resolved to shoot my SMR .32 ten shots today.
only had enough umph to do eight.
.315 with .007 patch lubed with Frontiers, over 35g fffg home brew. 35 yards off hand. beginning to really like this gun.
Nice 👍🏻
 

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