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  1. Maven

    Smoothbore Match in Near Future?

    Gary, This may be a shot in the dark, but is anyone interested in a smoothbore match (patched RB or bare ball) in the near future?
  2. Maven

    Rethinking clean-up of my GPR

    Like many of you, I removed the GPR bbl. from the stock and the lock from its mortice to clean them after a day's shooting. While neither was much of a chore, it dawned on me that removing and reseating the bbl. and wedges might "loosen things up" so to speak and degrade accuracy a bit. I now...
  3. Maven

    New idea for a Range/Cleaning Rod?

    My wife and I were changing over our bedroom curtains earlier today and had to monkey with the hollow, seamless, two-piece stainless steel curtain rod. It suddenly occurred to me that with a bit of modification, e.g., removing the end pc. decorations, inserting a sleeve of some sort, and...
  4. Maven

    Good day casting yesterday!

    I've been ladle casting RB's, conicals, and CF pistol and rifle bullets for ~50 years with few difficulties. However, yesterday (Oct. 3), I cast a bunch of .550" RB's from a Lyman mould* and got the smallest weight variation ever from that mould. I paid particular attention to the temperature...
  5. Maven

    Is Britsmoothy MIA?

    The title says it all: Nathan are you OK?
  6. Maven

    How my Lyman GPR got its mojo back

    Years ago I purchased a little used and custom finished .50cal. GPR from Track of the Wolf. Range testing showed it to be quite accurate with both .490" and .495" patched RB's. In recent years, however, it seems to have lost its "mojo," but I couldn't figure out why. (It was accurate enough...
  7. Maven

    Finally, A Smoothbore Target I'm Ecstatic About!

    For Britsmoothy: Several weeks ago I was testing my 20ga. trade gun* with patched RB loads (.598" RB + .018" patch; RB's cast from a Lee mould) from a bench rest @ 50 yd., varying only the powder charge from 70 -> 90gr. FFg (Graf's/Goex) in 10gr. increments. While the 70- and 80gr. loads were...
  8. Maven

    Quick cure for a ~loose key on my T/C Renegade SB

    When I shot my T/C smoothie the other day, I found the groups were a bit larger than I was hoping for, even from a rest and with a new nipple. After removing the key to clean the bbl., I found it wasn't as tight as I prefer. Rather than bend the key or smack the bracket to tighten things up, I...
  9. Maven

    T/C .56cal. SB once again

    I was shooting a SB match for the ALR Forum yesterday and decided to test my standard load (.550" RB + .011" fabric with 80gr. GOEX FFg + a thin OP wad) against a smaller, .535" RB patched with .018" pillow ticking, all else being the same. The latter so easy to load with the factory ramrod...
  10. Maven

    Happy With Ruger Old Army Today

    It has been awhile since I last fired the ROA, but with warmer weather, I intend to do so more often. Today I fired it @ 25 yd., bench rest with home cast, but unweighed .457" RB's and 30- and 35 grain (thrown) charges of Pyrodex P. (You know the stuff everyone loves to hate, but why throw it...
  11. Maven

    Tow Wads, Part III

    Today I tried to duplicate the results I got using tow wads fore & aft and the .618" RB (bore sized, Tanner mould), but with GOEX FFg instead of GOEX FFFg, which I ran out of. To compensate for the 85gr. load of FFFg, I used 95gr. FFg. Suffice it to say, the results were terrible: no grouping...
  12. Maven

    Tow Wads, Part 2

    Last week I tested tow wads in my T/C Renegade SB with a tight fitting .550" RB (home cast) and was impressed with how well they did @ 25 yd. Today I tested tow wads in my Green River Forge 20ga. trade gun with a tight fitting RB (.618", Tanner mould), but @ 50 yd. Given my past experience...
  13. Maven

    T/C Renegade SB: Patched RB's v. Tow Wads & RB's

    This thread, TC Renegade 56 SB?, got me to thinking about my T/C Renegade SB, which I've always loaded with a patched .550" RB cast from a Lyman mould. With a .012" (compressed) patch and 1 Ballistol : 6 water, results @ 25 yd., rested or offhand were often very good to excellent. However...
  14. Maven

    Anyone try Graf's brand, but Goes produced BP?

    The title says it all. I.e., Graf & Sons BP used to be made by Wano (green label and red, blue, and white "Schuetzen" label), but is now made for them by Goex. Pros? Cons?
  15. Maven

    Pre-lubed patches and cloth deterioration

    Griz44mag's comment on pre-lubed patches, https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/patches.118893/, reinforced 2 recent experiences I had with patches I pre-lubed perhaps 3 years ago. The home-brewed lube I used with a tight RB -patch combination, i.e., one which needed a short starter...
  16. Maven

    Ruger Old Army (Stainless Steel) at the Range Yesterday

    After a disappointing outing with my ROA last fall, I decided to try again. but with real BP instead of Pyrodex P. That session used a mix of home cast Lee .457" RB's and swaged RB's (Speer I think) + lubed felt OP wads + ~24gr. Pyro. P (thrown). As I said, results weren't very good...
  17. Maven

    RB Diameter for Bare Ball Loads in a 20ga. SB?

    I'd like to try loading a bare RB in my 20ga. SB, which measures .615" at the muzzle, but am uncertain about how large a pure lead RB I'll need. Should I be looking at .612"? .613"? .614"?, for example, or something else? Btw, the largest RB I have, .603", won't group better than 6" - 8" @...
  18. Maven

    Rich "Rocky" Rockwell has passed away

    I learned the other day of the passing of my friend, Rich "Rocky" Rockwell from stomach cancer. Rich was an avid flintlock shooter, who attended ML shoots everywhere between Maine and Indiana (Friendship). He was also a helluva nice guy, always willing to help new shooters with advice...
  19. Maven

    New to me book: "The Revenant"

    I happened to be in a Barnes & Noble store the other day and noticed the clearance/last chance book table. On it were several [new] copies of Michael Punke's "The Revenant" at a very attractive price. Although I'd already seen the movie, which I found to be confusing, I really wanted to read...
  20. Maven

    New Book on Indian Wars

    There's a new book on the Indian Wars, "The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West" by Peter Cozzens. On the strength of the favorable comment about it in the "NY Times Book Review" a few weeks ago, I purchased it and just finished reading it. It is a...
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