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    lead

    Where I live they no longer sell scrap lead. At least not the last time I checked... Used to buy all the time. Last time I went in it was no sales.
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    lead

    Thats why you do a group buy... But they sell in smaller quantities as well...
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    lead

    https://www.buffaloarms.com/bullet-casting-supplies/bullet-casting-alloys-pure-lead Dan
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    lead

    Some rifles shoot harder lead just fine, like wheel weight alloy. But require a thinner patch sometimes. If the barrel has wide lands and deep grooves this might not work well. And a LOT of new made W-Ws are ZINC and one in a pot of lead makes it all scrap. So if you can find a scrap yard that...
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    Now I'm paranoid... (Rust)

    Today I would use Break Free CLP for long term bore protection and if not in a gun safe allow free movement of air.... I stored mine in Iowa in 1970 for my time in the Army and had no issues. No gun safe, no dehumidifier, no rust. Think I used RIG in the bores.... Dan
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    Now I'm paranoid... (Rust)

    Don't store guns in a case or wrapped in anything. You now know why.... Remember the the blue and rust remover is HIGHLY CORROSIVE (its worse then the rust) and must be carefully neutralized or it it will just keep eating the metal. Lots of warm water and then a lot of warm baking soda watern(no...
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    Before the micrometer

    Coarse cloth? They had much finer linen available in the past than now. The Egyptians, for example, had linen cloth so fine it was see through or so I have read. IIRC Audubon wrote than Boone used "shirt bosom linen" for patches. This would not have been course linen. It is the modern ML shooter...
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    Old Powder

    Your setting on a fuel tank with extremely powerful and very easily ignited gasoline and BP scare you? Vaporized gasoline, for example, is at least as bad as nitro glycerin. There have been people who stepped on cans of powder during a Tipi fire are rendezvous and it ignited and all it did was...
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    early rifle charges

    Finding actual bore sizes is a PITA in my experience, often the same rifle is listed with two different bore sizes in two different descriptions. There is a lot of conflicting information. We have some, after the fact I might add, that claim the early rifles were large bore. Then we have JJ...
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    early rifle charges

    The ball size of the American military rifle may have been a response to the British Military rifle of the time (1800) which was a 62 caliber, 20 balls to the pound. The thing we REALLY need to look at here is surviving rifles civilian rifles that have not been bored smooth. If we do this then...
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    early rifle charges

    Look folks, there have ALWAYS been three classes. Gun owners who basically know, usually, which end of a rifle the bullet comes out of, shooters who actually shoot now and then but who's skills are often so poor they usually can't shoot a decent group with a good rifle and load. See this on the...
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    early rifle charges

    I think we need to look at the trajectories rather than the remaining velocity. RBs shed velocity at a rapid rate and even at 1800+ most 45-54 cals will be falling subsonic at 100. In a HUNTING rifle trajectory is important unless all the game is shot at pistol distances. Dan
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    early rifle charges

    My 16 bore rifle (ball weighs exactly an ounce) makes 1600 fps with 140gr of ff Swiss. This is almost exactly 1/3 ball weight. It shoots fairly flat, but the larger ball retains velocity a little better than a 45-50 caliber will. The problem with the 1/2 ball weight is that is only works for...
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    early rifle charges

    The barrel weighs 6 pounds. Not the rifle. If I read it right. So far as powder charges. The men who were shooting people at extended ranges, like the 300 yard shot at Gen. Fraser, were not shooting a thimble full of powder. Hanger would be a better source, and I have quoted him, if he did not...
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    3F in the Pan?

    The BURN rate is determined by the granule size. FFFF is twice the burn rate of FFF and so forth based on the SURFACE area of 20 gr of FFFF vs the surface area of FFF. This is when used a propellant. GOOD BP made with the PROPER ingredients will not suck up excess water from the air. However...
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