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  1. Old Sparky

    Can I use lead shot in a Cold Walker?

    I tried this when I was a teenager back in the 80s. It seems that the rifling really throws the pattern off. I was unable to take a squirrel at approximately 10 yards. I used a Wonder wad over the powder and another one over the shot. I gave up because even if you made a shot cup it was still...
  2. Old Sparky

    Flintlock muzzleloaders will rule again

    An old style cotton mop head is perfect. You're going to want to treat it with some potassium nitrate in water then it will never go out.
  3. Old Sparky

    Flintlock muzzleloaders will rule again

    Everyone assumes the flintlock is the perfect apocalypse gun. It's not for me for me it's percussion. I have a lifetime supply of cap making ingredients. 1 lb of each chemical will literally last you forever. Flints on the other hand don't occur naturally where I live and I can't make a flint...
  4. Old Sparky

    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    Wow!
  5. Old Sparky

    Do you gut your deer?

    As far as I'm concerned that thing needs gutted as soon as possible. It's the bacteria in the guts that makes it rot. Also you need to get it cooled down as quickly as possible. I have it down to a science at this point I just pull out the guts at the kill site I don't bother splitting the...
  6. Old Sparky

    Do you gut your deer?

    That's hilarious I'm not allowed to shoot the local deer either. Every once in awhile the wife will pick one out that is being mean to the other deer and I'm allowed to shoot that one haha
  7. Old Sparky

    File & rasp sharpening service review

    Vinegar is an acid. Most blacksmiths use muriatic acid to sharpen their files. Works a lot faster but you have to be quick about taking it out. The acid eats away some of the metal reducing the radius of the worn out Edge. You can't do it forever just a few times per file
  8. Old Sparky

    A muzzle loading assault rifle

    I'll take a hundred dirty hippies over one of those woke freaks
  9. Old Sparky

    “Waterproofing” your lock

    I'm sure that would work fantastic for rain but up north with a wet snow in the late season it seems that the humidity for my body condenses all over the gun and turns my Prime to mush.
  10. Old Sparky

    2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........

    I am in Blairsville PA what part of PA are you in?
  11. Old Sparky

    Lee 54 mold undersized

    I had that problem with the same mold. Turns out I did not have the mold hot enough. After that they were perfect
  12. Old Sparky

    Punch for stock pins

    I did not have time to read the entire thread but when my punch is too big I Chuck it up in the drill and spin it while holding sandpaper around the punch part with my fingers and a glove or a piece of leather and sand it down to the correct size.
  13. Old Sparky

    Kentucky pistol carry

    Yes that's what I'm trying to say
  14. Old Sparky

    Kentucky pistol carry

    I am thinking of a simple sling thing for it like the ones you see when you Google it but then it would have a cow's knee type thing covering it and it would be hanging in the sling under that worn under the shoulder around the neck like a Powder Horn
  15. Old Sparky

    Kentucky pistol carry

    I already did that first and I didn't like any of them. I do have an idea though
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