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    Truck Gun?

    I had one under the back seat of my car all one winter--had it loaded and capped for hunting season, and forgot to shoot it out after the season was over--and took it out and shot it mid-summer; this in the wet side of Washington. It was loaded and capped through all weathers, just never...
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    Trade gun shot pattern

    I larn't frum an ole dixie catalogue thet i kept in th' two-holer; started usin' th' pages thet only showed 'spensive stuff' an' it lasted near as long as th' monkey wards catalogue i had in there afore it. one uv th' last papers had a formula fer usin' wool felt soaked in salt-free lard, outta...
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    New Flintlock Need FFFFg powder

    Out here in the great northwet, we prime with FFFg because it's coated and doesn't suck water out of the atmosphere, Hard to go "bang" when your priming's gone to mush! windy
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    Steel Shot Question

    As I said above, 1250-1265 fps kills quite well; that was the performance level of steel factory loads for the first 10 years or so of steel shot requirements. Trying to get much higher will likely bust up your gun. I talked to the USA head of Pedersoli about this, back then; he was a...
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    Felt source? Over powder wads

    I use a punch sized 3/4" for 12ga AND 14GA; 10ga I use 13/16" or 7/8", depending on the shot size, 16GA i use 11/16", 20ga I use 5/8", 24ga (58 cal) and 28ga (54 cal) I use 9/16". I haven't tried anything smaller. I have noticed that with my 24ga trade gun, I get better patterns with 4 of the...
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    Howdy from Washington state

    Welcome to the big bore forum fer frontstuffers--I'm down Eatonville way; you? windy
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    Felt source? Over powder wads

    for shotgun felts, the old white army mukluk liners are great; my 12ga uses 3 of them between powder and ball--nothing more. Gives great patterns. I soak the wads, after I punch them out on the end-grain of a post or chunk of timber, in melted salt-free lard from the Mexican food aisle in the...
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    Problems I have had with, and thoughts on Pedersolis I have owned .

    Our Puget Sound locals are a bit fishy, from feeding on salmon carcasses up the local rivers. We really light up when the Canadian mallards come down; you can tell 'em by the plumpness, bright yellow feet and the tendency to call "quack, eh" when they're greeting yer decoy spread. Mostly, I'm...
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    Problems I have had with, and thoughts on Pedersolis I have owned .

    I have the 10ga double (percussion) and I've had it on saltwater for long enough periods of time that I'm terrifically impressed with the blue job--it finally started to spot a bit, but my buddy's Citori needed a blue job long before my 10 showed a thing. Another thing I discovered is that...
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    Steel Shot Question

    I'd say so, if you shoot more than a few. Best I found was the nylon wads for steel shot from Ballistic Products--I think they call them "TPS" wads. They don't melt nearly as bad as the soft plastic ones. You have to trim them down to the column size of your load--go very light, and heavy...
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    Steel Shot Question

    Anybody still wondering about steel shot in frontstuffers? I did a workup on the stuff with a Pedersoli 10ga from Caboomboom's and components of various kinds, and went on to enjoy a lot of success with it. Almost published my findings--even had a buddy fly over from Hawaii to do a photo...
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    Hello from Lolo, Montana!

    Hi, Matt; I've got a lot of family history up your way; a great-uncle trapped the pass area late-19th early-20th centuries for the bounties on cats and grizzlies, and lived year-around just the other side of the divide in a cabin that was called "the coldest year-around domicile in Idaho". My...
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    New old guy

    Howdy, y'all. I'm a 45-y'ar vet of the smokepole community, not often seen at rondys anymore, but occasionally spotted at a local lake or saltwater marsh with a double 10ga percussion clouding up the atmosphere. Could even be a few home-made wood blocks amongst my plastic decoy spread. I use...
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