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    Dixie Gun Works Inc.

    I've been buying stuff from DGW since 1969, and have never been disappointed with anything I've gotten from them, nor their service either. They are the absolute best at what they do.
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    Wad punch?

    ================================================ The 5/16ths punch should work for wads for a .31 1849 Colt, but I haven't tried it out on mine yet. It's buried waaay back in the gun safe somewhere, which is looking more like Fibber McGee's closet, if you go back that far.
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    New gun regulations

    ================================================================= Our local scrap yard here in Va. has always been a good source of lead for me, plus, the auto mechanic I've gone to for 30 years now keeps me supplied with wheel weights. I just have to sort out the lead ones from the non-lead...
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    New gun regulations

    =============================================== Well, it's only a matter of time before the anti's come after muzzleloaders too. The first thing they will likely try will be to make buying and/or shipping black powder and black powder substitutes more difficult and expensive than it is now. Then...
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    New gun regulations

    ================================================ OMG, "Clips"??? Shirley, you jest!!!
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    New gun regulations

    We have a BIG gun control problem coming up here in Virginia, but I guess the moderator would rather I didn't go into it here.
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    Sorely needed day at the range.

    Such yahoos as you describe are the biggest reason I joined the local private gun club I belong to now in 1994, and the yearly membership fee is some of the best money I've ever spent.
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    What is the oddest lead item you've made ammunition from?

    ======================================================= I guess the 'strangest' lead I've used for bullet casting is the lead I got a while back while visiting the local scrap yard in search of wheel weight lead. Instead,the owner showed me some lead sheathing from old X-ray machines they had...
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    What is the oddest lead item you've made ammunition from?

    Some years back, I took all the lead scraps I've found with metal detectors around Civil War campsites and battle sites, melted them down and cast them into ingots for later use in my originial Civil War pistol bullet molds and in the .58 caliber Lee Minie` bullet mold that I got for my 1863...
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    Sorely needed day at the range.

    ========================================= That's how I first got hooked on muzzleloaders, as a kid back in the 1950's. A gunsmith friend of Granddad's let me shoot a double-barrel 12 gauge muzzleloading shotgun on which he had just installed new nipples, and I was hooked for life!
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    Deep Fry

    Add Robert Ruark to that list as well. His boyhood adventures with his grandfather while growing up in coastal North Carolina in the 1920's could just as easily have been about me and my grandfather when I was growing up in rural southside Virginia in the 1950's. Same characters, just different...
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    Cleaning mix?

    Simple Green and a Scotchbrite pad make short work of stripping oil-finished gun stocks, BTW. Rinse off with a hose and hang up and let dry for several days before applying new finish. =======================================================
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    SOLD 40 caliber REAL Conicals

    ====================================================== The OP wads achieve a better gas seal. I've used them under REALs in my .50's and .54, and accuracy was improved and groups got much tighter.
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    Who Shoots .40 cal?

    ================================= Thanks! If I was smart, I'da thunka that. I'm a reloader, so I've got lotsa pistol bullets on hand.
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    Who Shoots .40 cal?

    ================================================== That was my thought as well, but I've yet to locate a source for .40 cal. hollow-base bullets, and I'd rather not go to the expense of having a custom mold made, so I'll stick with patched round ball for now.
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    Going public!

    I too have given the same silent ''thank you" to my British, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and German ancestors who came across the pond in the early to mid-1700's. Because of them, I can own firearms with minimal hassle, drink cold beer, and drive on the RIGHT side of the road! (;-)
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    Who Shoots .40 cal?

    I have a half-stock back-action lock .40 caliber percussion rifle similar to yours. It belonged to my step-Mom's step-father's grandfather, who won it as first prize at a shooting match in Massachusetts in the 1850's. Dad passed it along to me before he died in 2014. The bore is in excellent...
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    Apartment Longrifle Transportation?

    Black, twin bed size sheets work great for covering firearms in vehicles with moderate to heavy window tint.
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    Buying A Used MuzzleLoader.

    ===================================== Wow! I haunt the pawn shops around here pretty regular and have never run across a good deal like that. But, I keep hoping........
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    Lead ball casting

    Some of the best lead I've run across was at the local scrap yard, where I scored a bunch of lead sheathing from old dismantled X-ray machines. It's in ingot form now.
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