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    WW Lead Roundballs

    For a long time I wasn't able to get soft lead except from the WW stickies, so I often used WW lead for my 54 caliber rifle. It loaded only slightly harder and accuracy seemed about the same. Now I have found a couple hundred pounds of soft lead, I have switched to that. Does it perform better...
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    Blue Wonder?

    I have done a shotgun (restoration) and a muzzleloader (new) with it. It looks great when you first do it, but I haven't found it to be very durable. I won't be using it again.
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    Barrel length

    I am the one who started this thread and I had no idea of controversy I was starting. A little about myself. I am from the far north of Alberta Canada. I am 53 years old and have hunted from the time I was old enough. It is only in the last few years that I have started hunting with a...
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    Barrel length

    Thanks for all the replies. I was debating whether the long gun would handicap me and whether the shorter gun would pattern well and I would end up wishing that I had bought a longer barrel. It sounds like it is a matter of preference. Right now I have a 28" Lyman and 32" that I made. I think...
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    Barrel length

    I do like the looks of the long guns but you have a point on shooting grouse. I am used to shooting them with a 22 or 12 guage full choke. For the most part it is shooting them in the bush on the ground or in a tree. It means aiming above their heads, letting the outer part of the shot pattern...
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    Barrel length

    I have been shooting a 54 Lyman Trade Rifle. This winter I built a 45 flintlock off some parts I found and a piece of walnut I had. I had so much fun doing it, that I want to do another one. I am thinking of a .62 smoothie. What length of barrel should I be ordering? I would like to shoot both...
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    enlarging moulds?

    I lapped a Lee Minie mold using valve grinding compound. Like already described, I turned a screw into the minie, cut off the screw head and put it into a drill. It takes a while but now the minie does shoot out of my Lyman Trade Rifle. Before it would just drop down the barrel and I couldn't...
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    Parts for a Japanese flintlock

    You wouldn't have some pictures of that Kentucky Miroku would you. I have a kit which is likely a Kentucky or similiar style, but minus the stock and a few minor parts. Some pictures would be niced to see what it was supposed to look like before I start.
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    Japanese kit

    Thank you for the pictures.
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    Japanese kit

    I tried Dixie, but they were unable to help. It has been too many years since they carried the kits.
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    Also from the Great White North

    Thanks for the welcome. Going black powder has added a whole new dimension to shooting.
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    Japanese kit

    I recently acquired a flint lock kit that the person had bought many years ago, but never put it together. He said that it was 44 caliber and Japanese made. All it has for identification is "Japanese made" on the back side of the lock. Everything is there except for a stock and some small...
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    Also from the Great White North

    I was referred here from a member on "Modern Muzzleloader." I am from northern Alberta, almost as far north in Alberta as you can go. I have shot and hunted all my life but only got into muzzleloading a year ago.
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