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You need to cone down one year to experience it! I must admit my pet hate at this time of the year is any song mentioning snow or a white Christmas, also going to see the local Christmas decorations in 100F heat to find they are all festooned on fake snow!

Hi Pete, Have just arrived back home from the daughters place, as usual mountains of food and drink! Tomorrow is recovery day. Thanks for attaching the poem, I did wonder where the quote on the card had come from. I have a number of images of Australian Christmas cards from the 1880's to the...

Always wondered what a snowy Christmas would be like! Shorts and beer weather here on Heathcote.

Best wishes Colonial Boy

Thanks, having a Pimms and trying to recover after the massive Christmas lunch!

Cheers mate!

Thanks Windini !!

Thanks Mate, forecast is looking good, 79F and sunny, perfect Christmas weather!

Only one more sleep (down here) until Christmas day. Wishing all of you on this forum a very Merry Christmas and a great New Year!

Forty years, purchased my first muzzle loader in 1984, it was a Parker Hale Enfield Rifled Musket ( 3 bander). Still have it but it has not come out of the cupboard for a few years as I have been shooting flint locks for the last 35 years.

Well, at least you can buy caps, here is NSW Australia there are NO caps for sale anywhere. Main importer has had caps on back order for 2 years, our club members are now buying the kits you can get from Sharpshooter Rimfire Reloader to make #11 caps and getting them mailed down here. May be...

I'm afraid I would lean towards ignorant rather than enlightened.

Or for an even bigger bang, a 9 kilogram gas cyclinder (the standard size in Australia) and an ignition source.

Yes, I am sending off an order today. Our club member who made the first order also found a die to make the top hat four flanged caps from Poland of all places!, I am getting the details from him so i can also purchase one. My first muzzle Loading rifle (purchased back in the mists of time...

Not mentioned at all in the legislation due to the fact that is was drafted ignoring all of the submissions from the NSW Muzzle Loading Association and thus it was legislated by public servants with little knowledge of modern firearms and zero knowledge of black powder firearms!

The material that comes in these kits is 4 separate chemicals that when combined with rubbing alcohol makes the percussive compound, there is nothing that I can see in the NSW Firearms Act that specifically prohibits this.

Thanks for the information. I have just found out that one of our club members has ordered a a similar kit from the US and it was delivered a day or two ago. Our Christmas shoot & BBQ is this coming Sunday and i am going to advise all of our members to order at least one of these kits, this will...

Well, at least you can buy percussion caps! here in New South Wales it is now impossible to buy any type of percussion cap. I recently emailed the main Australian importer of CCI and Remington caps in desperation, they have had caps on back order for two years now. It is now so grim that going...

G ,day from Sydney, Australia. I don't know if they still hold it but back in the 1990's I attended the 1838 Rendezvous at Riverton Wyoming.

Thanks, nice looking rifle. I have been shooting a JP Henry trade rifle with .530 ball with a 12 thou patch and 80g of 2Fg.