Walkingeagle
54 Cal.
Got it Griz. Thank you.
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I certainly don't want that. I guess I better get on it. Thanks for the heads up.WHAT!!!! If you don't watch it by this weekend, you will suffer two demerits against your Man Card!
May have a local source for lead balls. A guy I know casts ‘em.
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Not what I wanted. Went to find a bucket in shed and thought I would give my fussy chainsaw one more opportunity to start. It did and I cut up some small downed trees in a drizzle. Messing around with my gun bench area and trying to impose order on chaos. Chaos is winning.
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Brilliant. Showed my wife and she said, and I quote: "Well, ****!" LOL.
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Well, I've found a gentleman in the North of England who swages a HUGE range of bullets, mostly for unmentionables, but also bullets, rather than ball, for muzzleloaders like my new-to-me Pritchett rifle.
He's going to send me a few of his swaged smooth-side cup-based Pritchett bullets to see how they'll fit - free of charge! He says that if they don't work/fit, then I won't have wasted the not inconsiderable cost of buying even fifty of them, so we'll have to see how it all works out.
This is what they look like, although I'm sure that many here will already know...
Now all I have to do is to find a similarly generous maker of swaged Whitworth bullets on this side of the Great Water, and I'm fixed up.
He's going to send me a few of his swaged smooth-side cup-based Pritchett bullets to see how they'll fit - free of charge! He says that if they don't work/fit, then I won't have wasted the not inconsiderable cost of buying even fifty of them, so we'll have to see how it all works out.
This is what they look like, although I'm sure that many here will already know...
Now all I have to do is to find a similarly generous maker of swaged Whitworth bullets on this side of the Great Water, and I'm fixed up.
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Copy that about the Mug of Tea!
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PA is fine muzzleloading country; after all, the "Kentucky/Pennsylvania" rifle was birthed here, mostly in the Eastern/Central parts. York was considered the frontier along the Susquehanna back in the day.
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That's an "unmentionable"! Cool simple set-up. Whatever works for people!
Recently, I had the opportunity again to see my hometown and the surrounding area from 3000 feet. Thanks to my son Randall Humphries for another local cool flight:
My 5 lbs of Triple 7 and .480 balls arrived today....
, Disgusted..........Got three builds to do and no time to work on them due to the normal Spring BS. I also need to make .530's . Had to laugh at this situation. In talking with a huntin' buddy , he's 86 , and was clearing out a bunch of stuff out of his shop. I was whining to him about being out of .530's with no time to make any , He handed me a coffee can full of .530's he made 20+ years ago. I thanked him profusely , took them home to the mike for a diameter check , oh well... The mold he used was an old Lyman , one of those ones , that if not careful , can cast balls around .530 , like.532 , .534 , .535.. ,and some in between . Will do a remelt and use a .530 Lee mold. Have good success w/ those. Still have no time to Git-er-Done .......it's just one more thing to do on the dang list of Spring manure sandwiches. It don't matter, long as I'm allowed to stay , and pray , another day........
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That sucks having to recast, but the way things are it’s hard to turn down free lead. It’s great to have friends like that!
gunnyr
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OK , no comment , but I'm thinking.
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Well, technically it was yesterday, but I had decided that I needed to make some smoke and review my sight picture. Got to the range to shoot my 36 caliber percussion squirrel rifle. While I had a container of 3f powder in my range box, it was empty. NO problem as I had plenty of 2f GOEX. I decided to use one of the powder measures I had turned on my wood lathe a couple of days ago.
I might want to get a few more grains. Think the rifle may prefer 35 grains.
Because of the shortage of round ball, I decided to try my 000 Hornady buck shot. The shot looks better than most of the swaged shot. Used the rest and shot at 25 yards.
10 shots later, I was wishing I had attended my club's board shoot. @Justin.44 would have had another challenger.
I might want to get a few more grains. Think the rifle may prefer 35 grains.
Because of the shortage of round ball, I decided to try my 000 Hornady buck shot. The shot looks better than most of the swaged shot. Used the rest and shot at 25 yards.
10 shots later, I was wishing I had attended my club's board shoot. @Justin.44 would have had another challenger.
Nice shooting @Grenadier1758, you probably would've beat us all. Nice powder measure by the way. 
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You could go into business making those beautiful powder measures!!! I'd like a few for sure!!!
As slow as I am making those measures, no one would want to pay for them. Besides, I am still climbing the learning curve.
Made 3 box calls from cedar. Called grandson and gave him his pick. Also made a squirrel call.
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Dave, not too get away from the subjects as posted, but did you know you can call squirrels bye rubbing two quarters together.
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