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    Laurel Mountain Browning

    Continue, it will be fine.
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    Do you adjust your load or POA for distance?

    I require my fixed sight rifles to land the bullet exactly on top of the front sight dead level with the rear. At what distance depends on what that rifle is. There are no competitive muzzleloader shoots around here, I hunt with them. My ML rifles are zero'd at 85-100 yards, the ball will not...
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    Great Transaction with these Members

    I went back through my messages and left honest feedback for everyone I have bought from and sold to in the last year or so. It's a pain, the feedback makes you find the thread and sometimes you can't find the exact thread but it can be done. It took an hour probably but if it helps the good...
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    Don't Carve That Stock!

    I am going to carve my next one, and do my level damn best job on it too. I'll pick it apart and see all of the flaws and do another, and another. I am going to emulate existing work though, as those that know have said I have not studied the work enough to even consider a scratch design. If...
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    Cow Elk Load

    .530 round ball and a tight patch with mink oil, I shoot 90 grains Schuetzen 2F out of my 54 by volume, never weighed it. Could be 85 could be 95, might be farther off than that but I can't say, but I shoot 90 by volume to kill paper targets, deer, elk or whatever needs shot. It shoots to...
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    May need to pull breech plug.

    EZ out the liner, toss it in the trash, fit a new one and chalk it all up to experience that you now have. Or pull the plug, most people can EZ out the liner without tearing things up worse compared to pulling a breechplug that might be really tight....
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    Starting a new build.

    Looking forward to seeing this come together.
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    Building a Gun for the Wife

    I have a green mountain 45 cal 13/16 straight barrel if you need it, 36 long but easy to cut back. I second the recommendation to let her look at all the pictures and pick what she wants, just don't show her any Lehigh LOL.
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    HILLBILLY HOCKEY STICK

    These days I think it's more like 15-20% of your customers are inconsolable mouth breathing morons. Also these days it's not "OK" to fire customers, as everyone needs to feel like they are important and it is somehow wrong to not let them tie up a HUGELY disproportionate amount of resources...
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    Prices…….

    Do not use Blackhorn in a side lock, it is NOT OK. It is for magnum rated inlines, needs a 209 primer for reliable ignition too. Pressure curve is WAY different and WAY higher than real black or black substitutes. You will likely blow your sidelock up and hurt yourself and anyone around you.
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    Prices…….

    That stuff, when used in the appropriate rifle, will do speeds that black cannot. I don't use it and I don't have anything capable of using it, but I know what it is and what it will do. If I needed it I would buy it.
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    Okay, this goes against the grain for me but....

    I have hunted with a climber, always push your safety rope up the tree ahead of you, you'll be glad when it slips and notice I didn't say if it slips. I have hunted from ladder stands too, putting them up can be really sketchy but once it's up run a safety rope and clip on with a prussic on...
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    Stain/finish question

    You can use tannic acid before the aquafortis to darken the end grain, I suspect the side of your stock would still fade out but what is there would be more prominent. You can do these tannic acid and aquafortis applications a few times selectively to get the color you want. The downside to...
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    .45 bpcr rifle barrels

    Some of the best ever made were by Boots Obermeyer, last I knew he was still at it, I suggest contacting them.
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    If 'lines' in Springs cause them to break ... then WHY do these work?

    You can make a decent spring with half decent material and a great heat treat, but you can't make a spring worth a squirt using the best material possible and a poor heat treat. The material and the heat treat go hand-in-hand really, both need to be good to get a good spring. The better both...
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    If 'lines' in Springs cause them to break ... then WHY do these work?

    You can in fact cast springs, it's done all day every day. The metal and process used and the heat treat most importantly determines if you have a 1/2 cycle spring or a good quality long lasting spring. I would very much prefer a bar or sheet stock spring forged and heat treated over cast for...
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    If 'lines' in Springs cause them to break ... then WHY do these work?

    No sharp edges to create a stress riser. Rounded or radiused is fine.
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    Cutfingers Bag Strap

    He made a black and red one for me that is superb as well. Very happy with it.
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    Pecatonica Fusil; Novice Build

    I was able to get a little under 3/16" cast off on the Pecatonica stock I built on, purely because there was that much extra wood on both sides, leave the right side where it was pretty much and move the left side to it. It also had 3/16" between the barrel channel and the ramrod hole/groove...
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    Wobbly Flintlock Hammer

    I’d use some layout dye or a blue sharpie and see how the contact is between the tumbler and the cock, looking very closely at how far the cock is engaging down the tumbler shaft. Some need a little filing and stoning of the cock (square hole) so that it can fully engage the tumbler (square...
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