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I've never used gloves. Just make sure your hands are clean and you will be fine. A gloved hand to me is not a hand I'd use for carving...

The way I differentiate molds is, the Lyman, Lee, etc are for use at home when a quantity of balls are required fast. For a leisure...

After reading these stories, I've decided I'm just going to forget about my matchlock kit entirely. So one day I'll hopefully get a...

Nope, I never do. Simply stirring the molten lead will bring all the impurities to the surface. Ive come to the conclusion that fluxing...

My stocks always wind up turning gray from handling, and using inletting black. Not to worry, it all comes clean with sand paper.

Nah, that's a beard comb. Makes nice cornrows.

Our season opened last Saturday. I went out for a little while in the later afternoon. As expected, I was not able to see any squirrels...

As stated by boomarang, the leaves are thick right now and the squirrels seem to be feeding in the tops of hickories or beeches here...

When and if I ever get this matchlock kit I ordered from the Rifle Shoppe, it will be in .75 caliber. I plan to strictly fire round...

I’ve been hunting with a .58 for a number of years now. This single rifle has harvested more deer than the rest of my armory combined...

Only kit I've built that had even the remotest of instructions, was my first, my TVM Lancaster. And those were only general assembly...

This is why I put no faith in "reviews" of items online. I'd imagine 9 out of 10 negative reviews of a product stem from a person who...

Just keep seeing and reading, someone bought something, has no clue how to clean-load-carry, BUT fiddle around with it till something...

We have well water here, so no chlorine. Boiling your water I think would remove a lot of the chlorine try that.

I used to use pillow ticking right from the store unwashed. I started soaking it in plain cold water the dry out on the clothes line. It...