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  1. Dale Allen Raby

    Old Army Max Load

    Not sure I believe that story... though it has been told many times. I generally load 30-35 grains of fffg black powder or the same volume of 777. Years ago, I acquired an Armi San Marco Walker. I loaded it with 60 grains ONCE. It turned out to be more of a handful than I liked. I dropped...
  2. Dale Allen Raby

    Bore Seasoning

    Been using this for decades. Never had any issues with it. As with all things; your mileage may vary, but nobody at T/C ever told anyone that it would prevent rust.
  3. Dale Allen Raby

    Black powder or Pyrodex

    PM me.
  4. Dale Allen Raby

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Went out and shot a plastic bottle with the Yellow Bird Gun. When done, put my gun and possibles bag in my chair on the front porch, went into the house, took my meds, grabbed my Kindle and went back out to finish my Jack Reacher novel. Discovered that Vir had taken up a guard post in my chair...
  5. Dale Allen Raby

    Is there a way to postpone cleaning a ml?

    Thanks for asking.... doing OK all things considered. Busy with projects... today fabricated parts to fix a toilet. Has a wrench as the flushing lever.
  6. Dale Allen Raby

    Strange issue cleaning .50 cal

    I'm no longer brave enough to do something like that inside a building. I once pulled the bullet from a .50 BMG round and heated the primer with a propane torch thinking that the crimped primer would pop and stay in place so I could replace the bullet and have it look like a live shell. The...
  7. Dale Allen Raby

    Is there a way to postpone cleaning a ml?

    From time to time I have not cleaned a gun for as long as a week with no ill effects. Not a good idea, but if you keep the gun in a dry location after shooting you should have minimal rusting if any. Now, leaving a dirty gun in the basement, out on the porch or in the trunk of your car you can...
  8. Dale Allen Raby

    Buckshot loads in a 28 gauge smoothboe

    .550 multi-ball load? Should perform about like a .410 2 1/2" buckshot load. Dunno how well it would perform on deer past ten yards of so. .. and it would kick like your favorite metaphor.
  9. Dale Allen Raby

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Sat on the back porch with William who was casting long heavy .550 caliber bullets that are designed to have a clay plug in the back end of them. We still have to locate a clay bank somewhere so we can make the plugs... but that was for another day. When I discovered the diameter of his...
  10. Dale Allen Raby

    1860 Colt vs. 1858 Remington

    I have fired both, but currently own just one; a Pietta-made Colt 1860 Army replica. It might seem counter-intuitive, but in my experience, the Colt design is more accurate in general, even though the rear sight is a notch in the hammer. As to which way to go.... well, that's up to you really...
  11. Dale Allen Raby

    You're going to be a colonist....

    Well, that's a plan I suppose... butcha might be waiting a while. I'd probably go if given a chance, but most people would not want to take the risks involved in space travel. I've always wondered what would have happened if the locals had banded together to resist European colonization. Even...
  12. Dale Allen Raby

    You're going to be a colonist....

    No. In a manuscript I wrote years ago, the colony was called "Limerick", though the egg-heads had another name for it. Those colonists were woefully inadequate right from the planning stages. Building their settlement in a river flood plain was their undoing. Atlatls and other primitive...
  13. Dale Allen Raby

    You're going to be a colonist....

    We'd be drinking home-distilled Romulan ale. ;)
  14. Dale Allen Raby

    You're going to be a colonist....

    Well, if somebody else is footing the bill for a practical starship, they'd have to pick and choose from those who stepped up to volunteer. Say you got a hundred seats and a thousand volunteers.... most of whom would be pretty useless people as colonists beyond their abilities to reproduce...
  15. Dale Allen Raby

    You're going to be a colonist....

    They'd better... who else would be an expert on muzzle-loading firearms, flint-napping, blacksmithing or just improvising in general?
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