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    FOR SALE Wasp nest

    We have them here in the DFW area. But the nests are typically smaller with us as We try to keep them under control with wasp spray. But once they fooled me and there was three bigger ones crammed into our kitchen stove vent. I guess the queen didn’t survive the winter or something preyed on...
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    Can you use a 17mm punch to make 16ga wads?

    Sounds good to me. Punch some out and have a go at it.
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    Goex. Is it still being made in 2024

    Well they have been shipping black powder out to the distributors in 2023. They say they are continuing to fill orders in 2024 too...
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    Cleaning jag getting stuck

    One other thought that some rifles have a stepped chamber down near the breech. This is smaller than the bore itself. You have to watch out for it or you would get the jag stuck there too,
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    .36 Colt Navy that powerful??????

    And one of Stalin’s Russian KGB assassins used two or three .25acp handguns to murder more than 7,000 Polish officers and elites in WWII too. Granted he was shooting them all at point blank in the back of the head. This was the Katyn massacre in WWII when the Russians systematically murdered...
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    .36 Colt Navy that powerful??????

    The .36 cap and ball guns were a lot more effective than people today give them credit for. Way back then it was considered adequate for people stopping. Medicine was very primitive and getting shot with anything usually meant a slow death no matter. The little .22 short revolvers and derringers...
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    Who's got the best lube?

    There is no single best lube. Everyone has a different concoction they like to use. All of the different lubes have pros and cons.
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    Fears Deadly Deer Disease Could Infect Humans

    As I remember it, there have been a couple three highly suspicious cases of someone getting CJD like disease from consuming CWD infected deer. The establishment of course bad talked it and the media like usual censored it pretty fast too. So it leaves me to think that yes it could be transmitted...
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    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    have you noticed in the movies where a sword being drawn always makes a metsl on metal scraping sound? Even when the person drawing the sword is supposed to be quietly drawing it out. Plus the scabbards are all leather or cloth or even none too. More modern is the actor always racks the slide...
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    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    Yes, muzzleloaders were still being used until sometime after WWII. Probably into the 1950s or so. They mostly used them to get meat for the table or to put a farm animal down if needed or to get rid of predators. Not so much for shooting people. Smoothbores would have been the most common as...
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    Shooting a replica Japanese ‘Tanegashima’ snap matchlock

    Well one of the earliest battles in Japan happened on a drizzly day with some fog even. The matchlock gunners actually carried the day and decisively helped their leader to win. So maybe there is a way for these guns to work in the rain. The Japanese had perfected their matchlocks to work in the...
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    An interesting note

    Yes Char cloth is a great way to start a fire. The char cloth has a lower ignition point than other things. Thus it is easier to get a fire going. You cut up you linen rags to fit in a tin box. Then you set the linen on fire and when it is burning good you close the lid thus snuffing out the...
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    Rubbing magnesium on frizzen ?

    I had thought about using a fire starter stick on a flintlock. But I never worked out the details. It would probably work better with a wheel lock.
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    Cutting large chunks of lead

    I totally forgot that I had bought a portable band saw some years ago. Of course it is arguable as to how portable it really is. I need to dig it out of my shed. But the hatchet and hand sledge looks promising too.
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    How many years Muzzleloading experience?

    I go way back to around 1966 when I hit my first muzzleloader. 58 years so far.
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