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    Muzzleloading Propellents at Walmart

    I've shot both, and Pyrodex fouling responds better to greased felt wads in the load versus black, giving me a soupier gravy in the bore that helps consistency shot-to-shot in both my Whitworth and my cartridge guns. Pyrodex is easily misunderstood, though, because it doesn't have that...
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    Laurel Mountain Browning

    One of the easiest traps to fall in with wipe-on bluing and browning is going on too wet. If your swab is wet enough to leave a liquid drop on tbe warm steel, the lowered temperarure there make for uneven color. If it wipes on dry, with a soft, even hiss, then you're probably doing well...
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    Front sight for Parker Hale Whitworth

    I can't quote a.part.number, but the lowest.profile Lyman globe with the knurled, screw-in sleeve at the rear to clamp the insert in place works.fine for my Whitworth and isn't too far "off-height" to let your tangent sight remain usable. ( 1) if your cfont sight.is higher than that, you...
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    Black powder or Pyrodex

    I've had good results with Pyrodex, as long as ignition is positive. " Re- enactor" musket cap were not relaible with it, but good strong honest caps were fine in my Whitworth. No. 10 or 11 caps were fine in my 1860. Pyrodex fouling seems to soften easier than black (using greased felt wads...
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    Sight Inletting on Enfield Pattern Stock

    Mine had enough wood to do it with no problem. If you leave the tangent sight on the barrel, it can be sort of a reality check on the tang sight migrating with humidity changes in the wood.
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    The Words We Use and How They Define Us

    Like the worn-out GI in France said when he looked back and shook his head at the town in rubble, " ...Well, we just 'liberated' the hell out of THIS place...." Guess you could say all the polite euphemisms we fling around nowadays are. very "liberating."
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    Slug Rifle Projectiles

    Many thanks for sharing your Slug Rilfe experience with us. There's way too little written about them, and the false muzzle photos are great. I like the milled slots.for paper-strip cross patch. Do you use any sort of lube wad or card wad between bullet and powder, or does the 'tween-shot...
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    Cleaning Issue Solved?

    Just a word of caution on cleaning that downsize breech chamber with brushes on your rod: Most brushes sold nowadays are not really made for PULLING back through your ML bore. I've had them pull the twisted-wire brush part out of the solid base of the brush after they accumulate some mileage...
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    Parker-Hale Whitworth - 1st shot and lookie-round...

    Loading my bullet down with a greased felt wad, (with a card wad already seated on the powder), solved my misfires, since the cleaning only happened above the powder charge. That managed fouling pretty well until the final clean for the day. Good luck! Keep us posted.
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    Help with my balls.

    soory i double- tapped. phone is dodgy tonight . feel free.to delete either.
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    Help with my balls.

    An old Gun Digest from the early to mid 1970's will list that gun with its price at that time, and then googling the name may lead to more background info.
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    Help with my balls.

    Some old Gun Digest from the early to mid 1970's will list that gun and its price at the time.
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    Mystery tool/gauge

    I think some kind of tachometer. The nose of the tool is just like I've seen on other tachs used on lathes and mills. Typically, a machinist has no question of whether the turns counted are left.or right, though, so I wonder if it is indeed used ro check RPM and direction for something like a...
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    Broken ramrod

    Forgot to mention using a greased felt wad ( with maybe a card wad or beeswax wad to protect the powder) greatly reduces loading effort so rod breakage is mixh less of a risk. But we probably don't want to chase that tangent here.... Love the hot pine rosin trick. Should improve my grip...
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    Broken ramrod

    I was not aware the coal oil trick was "debunked" recently. I wonder if it worked for Harry's bunch because maybe they cut their own and started with half-dried wood instead of kiln-dried(?).
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    Broken ramrod

    Harry Pope soaked his in kerosene to make them supple and not brittle. He probably learned that from some previous Old Timer. Folks back then may have had better hickory blanks available, just because hickory customers were maybe more demanding and knowledgeable back then ( i.e. reading the...
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    Bullet Mould Idea

    Wonder if you could drill a hole fairly centered and straight in the end of the plunger, then put an allen head countersunk screw in rhe end, filed to square bullet- seating face. Leave enough of the allen socket to remove your trial piece after the experiment. May be a low-impact...
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    Bullet Mould Idea

    wonder if
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    Bullet Mould Idea

    Understood.
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    Bullet Mould Idea

    Thanks for the idea and the effort. A slip-fit shank aft for loading alignment with a standard oversize front end is what I was thinking to design someday, maybe with a slight loading chamfer at the heel. May want to make a flat-faced loading.lever plunger on the.gun, just to reduce tipping if...
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