• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades

Search results

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. thixotropy

    Wheel weight lead question

    not sure what I got into but the last batch of WW I got into I couldn't melt, they just turned into a frothy mess in no way castable. I'll stick to salvaged stuff from the recycle metal buyers, sorties from target berms and gifts from benevolent competitors, and of course prizes...
  2. thixotropy

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    shot a couple matches with fellows who spent the better part of the day looking for the sights they'd started with using that very same method...:-)
  3. thixotropy

    Does anyone even do this anymore?

    couple years ago in FL a fellow who had stored his muzzleloader with 'sweet oil', (olive oil) as a rust preventitive. He let it go a couple weeks longer than usual between matches. In his haste to demonstrate his prowess to some onlookers he failed to snap a cap, loaded up and tried to fire it...
  4. thixotropy

    Need advice Re, Moose milk

    Been using 2-oz each WSCO and Murphys to a Quart of warm water as Moose Milk for a swab for 15 years at least. Ballistol to water 1:4 as a patch lube. I'm of the persuasion NAPA changed the formulation on WSCO some years back and the stuff would no longer stay in solution when mixed.
  5. thixotropy

    New guy from N. Canton, Ohio

    Be a bit of a poke for you but we shoot at Chesterhill once a month spring thru fall, there are also matches in Darbyville, Columbus, Centerburg and Newark. You'd be welcome to any and all, they usually shoot different weekends Centerburg switches and I heard Columbus is going to Saturdays...
  6. thixotropy

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I've been in that store-you'd be well advised to bring anything you need with you...
  7. thixotropy

    My issue with the Ballistol dry patch

    I'm not sure, but I think all cutting oils are water soluble.? Truly the NAPA stuff doesn't fully dissolve the way the early formula did - I ordered some WSCO from some soviet bloc country from E-bay that was slightly better but still seems to separate. I'm chagrined to hear Ballistic doesn't...
  8. thixotropy

    who all uses peeps on their percussion guns.

    I shot a small club in WV that consider them an unfair advantage, just a matter of time before their attitude changes to accomodate their failing vision. I just can't focus w/o them. It's amusing to buy old rifles with several dovetails cut to accomodate the original owners aging vision.
  9. thixotropy

    Can a mainspring be made stronger?

    it would seem if you could get hold of a similar spring you could grind the width, which I seem to recall in some previous MB article, was a method of reducing spring "strength". i also wonder why anyone ever would leave a gun cocked?
  10. thixotropy

    Swaged vs molded

    one method is to roll cast balls between two 1/2 inch pieces of plate steel, I use a tuna can cut less than the diameter of the balls as a retainer. I also just was given a vibrating case polisher for free at a yardsale- I threw about 50 or so of two calibers in that for an hour -they came out...
  11. thixotropy

    Serial Number Dating a T/C

    A fellow I shoot with in FL, had issues with a frizzen on his T/C. He sent a note to "T/C" and 'they' sent him a new frizzen. I know the guy and have no reason to doubt his word. So some I've heard regarding warranty and parts is obviously not true. That being said, that may be the only part...
  12. thixotropy

    New match replacing the Western National

    Keep fighting it man-good on you putting forth the effort, GF and myself are both now members of the "club". Hope to be there this spring ourselves. Wish you well. Meeting more and more people who have fought it and won. Seems like every other person in FL lately!
  13. thixotropy

    whiskeys

    Laphroaig single malt if I'm forced to drink scotch, otherwise almost any bourbon will do.
  14. thixotropy

    Ballistol fumes?

    Having kept bees a number of years, I would have sworn Ballistal contains butyric acid, a principal ingredient in vomit and Bee-Go. I've never smelt the anise oil component, just the vomit - and butyric acid does cause throat irritation. That being said, I can't find it as an ingredient listed...
  15. thixotropy

    How about some Horseradish?

    I recently saw in an old gardening book "horseradish is almost impossible to eradicate, once established". So enjoy!
  16. thixotropy

    tumbling balls

    I had an old timer at a match, I'm 68, insist I load my balls sprue down to increase accuracy. This was opposite my method-out of respect and curiosity I later shot 5 each off the bench just to see- sprue up was only slightly better and I mean marginally. I started rolling balls between a couple...
  17. thixotropy

    Serial Number Dating a T/C

    Interesting about the JUKAR, I've not had such luck with the Spanish but have several USA made-decades ago I started with a renegade, went to a drop-in G.M. barrel, eventually restocked that and had a pretty accurate rifle for quite awhile until it and a bunch others were stolen. My favorites...
  18. thixotropy

    Serial Number Dating a T/C

    Thanks, for that, that's the first definitive thing I've seen-I'm surprised no one's ever done any kind of history of the company-I've heard all kinds of stuff from secret locations where they buried all the spare parts and barrels after the company closed, on and on. I heard also Douglas used...
  19. thixotropy

    Serial Number Dating a T/C

    Barrels marked with crosses, hearts, spades and clubs were rumored to be from the Sharon Barrel company out of Montana, I believe. They were early production and have all proven to be exceptionally accurate.
Back
Top