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    flint knapping

    Say goodbye to your free time once you start down the waldorf path there's no turning back. You will aquire about three more hobbies, his books and videos are treasures.
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    Dealer ethics

    the name of the place is collectors firearms
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    x x x x x

    no x's. Stunk up the place 118 of 200 on Agregate lots of 6's and 7's a few 8's and only one 9 it was all me I know the gun will do it. oh well had a blast.
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    x x x x x

    xxxxx--- Thats not an adult movie that's what's going to be following my score this weekend at the big WV muzzleloaders shoot in glenville. :bull: :rotf: anybody going?
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    Speaking of tinning...

    Sometimes when I am working with a big piece I have problems with the heat dissipating too quickly throughout the copper. I have used clay around the area I want to tin by making a sort of "heat dam" to help concentrate it. Just roll it like a snake and put it around area. propane should be...
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    homemade wads

    Right now is the best time to get the good free stuff. I sewed a back pocket on my possibles bag and keep it stuffed full of EMPTY wasp and hornet nests. Pinch off about the size of a dip of snuff, tamp it down over powder then seat your prb (I use .440 ball in my .45 with .018 w--mart ticking)...
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    Synthetic Sperm Whale Oil...

    "synthetic" in oil usually doesn't mean that it was created in some unnatural lab. It is somewhat distilled so all the molecule chains are the same length because in "real" oil the short molecules evaporate off relatively quickly leaving only sludge so its very possible for synthetic oil to come...
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    core charge

    Didn't figure I should, just wondered if anyone had.
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    core charge

    Anyone ever tear apart old car batteries for the lead?
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    How many ML's do you own?

    Heck with atf, if my wife would find out how many I had whew... crop rotation thats the key never have the same gun in the same corner more than a week.
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    Loaded for Bear

    Great looking setup nwtf longhunter last bear season in WV I buried a 125 grain magnus broadhead in one with a shrew bow :wink: , but what you got there will probably work too.
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    How pure?

    all hail dremel...all hail dremel... I make most of my muzzleloading stuff with modern drills and bansaw, my longbows I am close to stone age but still use rasp and spokeshave. but if Im making a new bowdrill setup or natural shelter its flint shards and natural chordage only , oh yeah and I use...
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    Linseed Oil on Leather?????

    I tried some on a pair of gloves for hunting. Stunk like the dickens for months never took them in the woods but I would imagine the deer wouldve been on red alert as soon as I pulled them stink bombs out of the jeep. In retrospect though I probably used too much maybe a small amount wouldnt...
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    Knife handles?

    Its got nice figure and is tough as nails its what I make my mallets out of.
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    Made my first knife

    man what a great job Ive seen prison shanks that looked better than my first try. That is a beaut. :bow:
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