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    Mild steel knife + case harden?

    G'day All. Here in Victoria Australia, I am having trouble sourcing 1084 carbon steel. There is only one supplier I can find and they have none in stock. Someone here posted a topic on case hardening mild steel to make files and I was wondering if anyone had tried to do it for blade blanks...
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    Question to the blacksmiths and those with metalurgy understandin

    I have an old swing saw blade with the numbers C7475 stamped over a 1. This is an old blade that is sharpened and needs set on it to cut. It doesn't have tungsten tips and an be resharpned and re gullited. So I am wondering it the numbers denote a steel type? Would be nice to have a known...
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    Seeking advice on trigger lightening

    G'day I have a Lyman Deerstalker left hand .54 flintlock. I am after advice, help to make the trigger lighter. What have your experiences been? All constructive comments welcome. Cheers Jonno
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    .54 prb and the likelyhood of ricochet?

    G'day to all, Seeking your collective knowledge again. I have a .54 deerstalker, and live in a volcanic lava flow scoria, blue stone barriers. I would like to have a go at the local rabbit and fox population and am wondering about ricochets. Sometimes the shots are at short range. Your...
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    My round ball is not so round.

    G'day all, I am shooting patched round balls (.535) .018 cotton patch with 60 grains ff in a .54 lyman flintlock deer stalker. My question, when I load, a ring gets pressed into the ball by the ram rod. This was quite severe, so I sanded the end of the loading jag to take off the lip and have...
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    Veg tanning

    G'day all, It is walnut season again, and I know that the husks can be used for dying, but can you tan with them? I expect to be harvesting in the next 2-3 weeks. I have a few dried fallow deer hides and would like to tan them with something other than chrome alum. So, is there a receipe that...
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    Eye safety

    G'day all, I have always been interested in simple grassroots hunting, this led me to buy a flint lock rifle. It is a lyman deerstalker, so I am not too concerned with being Historically correct. My question is about the safety of shooting flintlocks without safety glasses, as it is annoying...
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    Deerstalker flint size?

    G'day all, I am looking to buy some flints for my lyman deerstalker. There is a fella called Will Lord who has apparently taken over from Tom Fuller who knapps black English flints. I am wondering what size to order. The lyman site says 5/8" but that is I assume for a cut flint. Is there a...
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    54 deerstalker sights

    G'day all, Firstly thank you all for the valuable information that is found here. I have been reading this forum for a while and enjoy learning from you all. I have a layman deerstalker in .54 left hand flintlock. This my only muzzle loader. I have the open sights ( not the fibre optic ones)...
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