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  1. Loyalist Dave

    How many shots in a row without picking or wiping pan ?

    WOW that's tough, as my .40 I have to stick a toothpick in the touch hole every time I load, while my .54 I am in the habit of wiping every third shot or so, when I swab the bore. Could I go more shots without?..., probably LD
  2. Loyalist Dave

    Where/how can I get a cheap powder horn? I can DIY most of it, I’m not picky.

    So IF you want to end up with this, and measure the powder as it comes from the horn, and then dump that charge into your rifle... PLEASE DON'T IF you want to pour the powder into a fixed measure, aka a "charger" or into an adjustable measure, and then pour that into your rifle or smoothbore...
  3. Loyalist Dave

    Fort Frederick 18th Century Market Fair

    Good place to pick up a few clay pipes if you partake of tobacco, Look hard for knapped flints for the firearms, as they are getting much harder to find..., pick them out by hand..., Kentucky Leather and Hide has scrap leather bundles if you do leatherwork..., perfect for cartridge boxes, knife...
  4. Loyalist Dave

    Antiqued 1858 Pietta

    I've been mustard-browning for 22 years now. I know because I started doing it when my boy turned two, and it gave me a method of browning, patina, or aging of carbon steel both for knives and guns, that used something that was non-toxic. So my then 2-year-old son could get into the stuff and...
  5. Loyalist Dave

    Do you have to do an FFL transfer of a muzzleloader in Va. ??

    The key to what I was pointing out is the "conversion" to modern ammo. There are folks that do this but think that by disassembly the revolver is now back to being an antique firearm. Which is fine unless somebody gets involved in a scenario where Law Enforcement gets involved, and the user is...
  6. Loyalist Dave

    Black powder on smokeless ranges

    Ya know, every range is different. On my local range, not every bench shoots at all three distances, 50/75/100. So IF I want to check the sights at 50, then go up to 100, I have to sit in the middle benches, but if I want to do 75 and 100, I'm on the right end. Besides, who can predict the...
  7. Loyalist Dave

    Fort Frederick 18th Century Market Fair

    My daughter and I will be there tomorrow, and she will be back on Saturday. Alas my wife found something we needed to do this whole weekend. Last year too. LD
  8. Loyalist Dave

    Light hunting rifle, straight stock?

    There is something important about SciAggie's butt plates..., they're wide and rounded. A proper fitting stock is one thing, but, with black powder rifles a wide butt plate helps to disperse pounds-per-square-inch AND when rounded including the edges of that metal butt plate, that too reduces...
  9. Loyalist Dave

    Do you have to do an FFL transfer of a muzzleloader in Va. ??

    IF you get a kit for a Remington 1858, defarb it by taking off the serial number, etc..., and then later get a cylinder to convert it, yes it would. LD
  10. Loyalist Dave

    Study: Hunters Die After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison

    Part of the problem here is that the deer have adapted sooo well, and we have removed the hunting pressure sooo much, that they are having twins a LOT, and triplets are now considered "uncommon" when 40 years ago, twins were "uncommon". We are up to our armpits in whitetails. It's RARE that I...
  11. Loyalist Dave

    Gun safety

    I've never had a problem with cocking both barrels when hunting upland birds. No more dangerous letting that hammer down on the second barrel than it would be letting the hammer down on the one barrel and you chose not to fire for whatever reason. LD
  12. Loyalist Dave

    Study: Hunters Die After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison

    I read a bunch of the different reports, and it appeared to be more poor jounalism than an actual zoonitic case. CWD and BSE are both from prions, but the CDC lists them apart. From what I read, CWD, which is very very similar to a very old disease called scrappy (scrape-EEE) in sheep and may...
  13. Loyalist Dave

    Favorite caliber to shoot

    "Alle Kunst ist umsonst Wenn ein Engel in das Zündloch Prunst" All skill is for nothing when an angel pisses in your touch hole.....18th century Germanic Proverb Then I hope the angel stops messing with my rifle soon... LD
  14. Loyalist Dave

    New member

    Unfortunately, the Contender or Encore are outside of the scope of this forum. Since both convert from BP to cartridge barrels, you should have much better luck with this forum: The High Road LD
  15. Loyalist Dave

    MINIMUM LOAD

    YEP Slingshot. A LOT of jurisdictions even in pro-firearms locations frown on shooting live ammo, no matter what the load, be it the lightest from something rimfire or 10 grains of 3Fg. LD
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