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    My balls

    You can use your pocket knife to trim high spurs. Good advice from others about preheating the mold.
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    Suggestions for 'old time' dark/black stain or dye?

    Very cool gun! Black walnut hulls make an effective dark traditional stain. Used to use it to dye traps--it'll blacken wood, metal, your hands--whatever it touches.
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    Do you gut your deer?

    Yes, of course: whether deer, antelope, elk or other critter to be et--gut right away to cool the carcass (including splitting the neck and removing windpipe) and to get at the yummy heart, liver, skirt, and tenderloins. Elk we also split lengthwise to facilitate dragging if we aren't going...
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    Chemistry Question

    Yes: keeps it simple..
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    Chemistry Question

    A lot to unpack here from a chemical point of view. Viscosity doesn't correlate with lube effectiveness: think of the 0W20 (low viscosity) oil we now typically use in our engines instead of 10W40 (higher viscosity). Spit is fairly low viscosity yet it seals a patch well and...
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    How you clean pan & frizzen?

    spot on: old toothbrushes are an indispensable cleaning tool.
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    What Part Of Clean It Now Don't You Understand?

    Sometimes after a long day of hunting and hauling and hanging, Deerslayer gets propped in the corner until morning. I am, however, sure to run a few spit patches right after shooting--maybe just wishful thinking on my part but I believe that halts or at least slows any corrosion.
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    Rendering lamb fat?

    Lamb or mutton fat is a great patch lube, nearly as good as bear fat though it waxes up at a higher temp than bear or coon fat. Mostly I use it on leather including shoes and such.
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    Stuck

    Sounds 'bout right.
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    What kind of stuff do you all read?

    I won't bore yous with my non-shooting related reading, but for guns and such some faves yous might find of interest include: Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian. (Section on making gunpowder is awesome. He's the guy that also wrote the novels that films such as The Road, No Country for Old...
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Burned most of the daylight with spot and stalk for elk, then tracking (they had moved from first), then another spot and stalk. Turns out the antlers I could see with binos at half-mile or so didn't belong to a legal (brow-tined) bull, just a big spike. The freezer is full with cow elk and...
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

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    SOLD Flintlock for Sale

    Yes, Dixie TN Mtn Rifles were stocked with Japanese cherry. Some hated it but it grows on you.
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    SOLD Flintlock for Sale

    Mine built from kit has no serial number, and other Dixie kit guns I've seen also had no serial number.
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    SOLD Flintlock for Sale

    Although I use 4F in the pan, it's not necessary. A bit of 3F or even 2F from the horn seems to serve just as well. And yes, the hole in the stock was at the time described as a grease hole, kind of a 1970s-80s fad.
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