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  1. J

    repairing a crack in an old cast iron pot

    In my work career I repaired a lot of cast iron. heavy equipment parts to no few cooking utensils. First thing you ought to think about is the value, if it's as old as you say a repair may ruin the antique value. Find a good welding repair shop, ask around about their work if you can. Be...
  2. J

    Lee round ball moulds?

    Another pitch for the Lee molds. Going on 70 and reloading for 50 years I never got around to casting my own. The cost of factory made bullets, including plain lead round balls, was getting to the point where it was pinching my pension. The 2 cavity Lee molds were a fairly inexpensive way to get...
  3. J

    Lee round ball moulds?

    You do get what you pay for, sorta kinda. The Lee molds are such a good price and generally of such good quality combined with good service that they're hard to pass up. I only have 3, but they have been perfect in all regards.
  4. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    A kinda sorta update. The original thread was brought to life by someone wanting to know the status. The OP replied that a gunsmith still has his gun and has been unable get it apart! I wonder if this poor guy will ever see his rifle in working condition again.
  5. J

    Seen these?

    Cool! Remember Barny's Cannons way back when. Was always going to buy one from them and never got it done.
  6. J

    Seen these?

    http://www.blackpowder-cannons.com/ Guy has some nice looking miniatures. Wish he had a field gun up around half inch.
  7. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    Not a lot of people have the tooling to do it themselves.
  8. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    It was a .50. Any number of ways to come up with a socket type affair if a little ingenuity is used. Around here thin wall tube in aluminum or brass is pretty easy to find. 3/8" will run over a .50 caliber brush. The thread where this was going on has pretty well died, whether the guy will come...
  9. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    Reference some of the recent comments. Some strange ideas to come from a bunch of BP muzzle stuffers. Really only two suitable methods to recover a broken off brush. A length of tubing just the right size to be pushed in over the lost brush and alternately running a smaller caliber brush down...
  10. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    He was using a brand new T/C brush, how it broke off at the bottom of the bore is unknown. I've stepped back from making any more comments, too many "experts" telling him to clamp the barrel in a vise and "just" unscrew it. :surrender: At least he didn't do that and I guess has given it to a...
  11. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    Yup :thumbsup:
  12. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    That's what myself and several others have told him to do, anyway he can't seem to get it out that way. I just hope the guy doesn't wreck a good barrel.
  13. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    Thanks BB, that's what I was thinking. On a forum devoted to modern center fired there is a guy got a brush broke off down in the chamber. Bunch of guys keep telling him to just unscrew the breech. Only thing similar I have is a T/C Hawken and the breech sure ain't meant for bubba to clamp in a...
  14. J

    Green Mountain barrels

    Do the regular ML hook breech barrels have a removable breech plug? I was thinking they didn't.
  15. J

    Jag stuck

    I've thought about lapping that barrel, but I'm mainly a centerfire shooter and just always have a new rifle to work with :)
  16. J

    Jag stuck

    My rifle is stored with the wood rod because it's a pretty thing. I never use it to shoot though!
  17. J

    Jag stuck

    I bought an older T/C .50 Hawken and I stuck a few patches. I finally made some carbon scrapers and you wouldn't believe the amount of crud I got out from down there around the chamber! The barrel is still in pretty poor shape with lots of pitting and I have to swab every few shots or I can't...
  18. J

    digging yer own lead

    Was it in it's native state? That's pretty rare, not many places where native lead is found. In fact I think it can be worth a lot as specimens. I've never seen it, but I've seen some pretty huge pieces of native copper found deep in some Arizona copper mines.
  19. J

    digging yer own lead

    There's some danger in clambering around in old underground mines to be sure, but I sure used to do a lot of it :) Places you find that are small surface cuts are where they were high grading a rich vein that was exposed at the surface. Either it wasn't rich enough to continue going deeper or...
  20. J

    500 yard target

    Pretty darn fine 500 yard shooting! :thumbsup: One in the 6 ring is a bummer.
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