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  1. sealgaire

    What is the reasonable distance to quickly kill a turkey with a muzzleloader?

    If'n you dryball it, pretty much the length of your smokepole.
  2. sealgaire

    Barrel Bluing help

    Get a copy of Angier's Firearms Blueing and Browning. I used it when teaching Chemistry. Great book. Here is a link to an electronic copy , about 1/4 the price of the hard cover. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/firearm-blueing-and-browning-r-h-angier/1008845590
  3. sealgaire

    It appears that…..

    73 years old and shooting since I was 10. Never dry balled. A few years back I was up to shoot at a woods walk. Cap went off, rifle did not fire, tried another cap, still did not fire. The guys started laughing, "dry ball, dry ball." Put the ram rod down the barrel, turned to the crowd...
  4. sealgaire

    Parker-Hale Whitworth - 1st shot and lookie-round...

    FYI, and I'm not bidding on it. A Pedersoli Rigby .451 is up on an internet auction. Poulin Auctions in Fairfield, Maine.
  5. sealgaire

    Northern Ohio

    Ohio! Been to the Log Cabin Shop? Great resource, nice folk.
  6. sealgaire

    Can "they" hear me? Do "they" care?

    Two things: 1. Walking to a stand years ago I heard some movement in the brush. Stopped dead and a few minutes later two does appeared. One walked up to within 5 feet of me, at about 40 degrees off to the right. Stood there staring and sniffing. Moved my eyes to look directly at her, that was...
  7. sealgaire

    FOR SALE CVA .50 Express double barrel for sale

    Had one of these years ago. Another one I should have kept. Had the .50 rifle barrels and a set of 12 gauge cylinder bore barrels. One dead deer and maybe a bushel of woodcock before I moved on to something else.
  8. sealgaire

    How do you transport your longrifle?

    A couple of 2x2's, plywood/paneling/roll of flashing scrap, bubble wrap, a couple of hinges, at least one latch. Your smart enough to figure it out. Just don't let the fellas at the range see it.
  9. sealgaire

    What are your favorite targets?

    Balloons hung from strings on a windy day, ball rolling away from you (or if mother in law is there, a ball being rolled toward you), roofing nails pounded half way into a board, apple sitting on an upright log with a picture of Kim Jong Whatshisname underneath (try to shoot low), golf balls on...
  10. sealgaire

    Log Cabin Shop website

    You live in Lima, Ohio. Lodi is only a 2 hour drive. Take a drive to the LCS. It is well worth it. I live in Maine. When I visit my daughter's family in Avon Lake, Ohio I always make a drive to Lodi.
  11. sealgaire

    The Double Double

    Someone comes up with a bright idea and makes, or has made, this combo flint/percussion double. No one else picks up on it. Either it has ignition issues (as some have mentioned above) or is simply too expensive to build. If it worked the way the bright idea imagined there would be a lot of them...
  12. sealgaire

    Powder shortage effects

    Maurice Whitten, a Chemistry professor at USM, wrote a book titled, The Gunpowder Mills of Maine, (1990). I used the book when I was teaching Chemistry in Windham, Maine. Among others, the book talks about the Gambo Powder Mill on the Presumscot River with facilities in both Windham and Gorham...
  13. sealgaire

    Woods Walk Targets

    I put together a woodswalk a couple of years ago. A couple of things I set up: 1. William Tell - stand a log upright, staple a picture ( I used Kim Jong whatshisname), put an apple on top of the log. +2 if you hit the apple, -1 if you shoot Kim. (one guy shot Kim on purpose, said it was worth...
  14. sealgaire

    Early black powder recipes for bombards

    A chemistry professor at West Point has published her research on black powder used in 14th and 15th century bombards. There is a non-technical article in today's New York Times at...
  15. sealgaire

    Who made this powder

    Seems you may need an eprouvette.
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