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  1. Loyalist Dave

    Black Powder Aluminium Flask?

    Um..., no that's probably a bad idea. I was once a muzzleloading artillery man and I know the black powder reacts with the aluminum foil that we would wrap the main charge within to shoot the cannon. Since we made these up less than a week before an event it was not a problem for us as the...
  2. Loyalist Dave

    Panther hunters tent ( Pyramid)

    With a 7x7 you will want to haul two poles. and rig it thus..., With the smaller tents with no flat sides, the you keep bumping into the center pole, so rig two as shown, either shorter poles and on the inside or two longer poles and on the outside, and you feel like there is more useful...
  3. Loyalist Dave

    MOUNT VERNON UNDER ATTACK!

    THAT'S RIGHT boys and girls, this weekend, the forces of His Royal Britannic Majesty, King George III, will endeavor to return the rebellious colony of Virginia to its rightful allegiance to The Crown. REOLUTIONARY WAR WEEKEND Time for some of the lads to go to work..., I'm Fat but I keep...
  4. Loyalist Dave

    Remember this Davy Crockett movie scene?

    Well there's the cap for walkin' and talkin' on camera, and the one that along with his hair brushed down near his ears, covers his ear plugs.... LD
  5. Loyalist Dave

    When did deep frying come along?

    Historic "Sack" was a sweet, fortified sherry from Spain, and was very popular for a number of centuries. As far back as Elizabeth I, for in Shakespear's Henry V we find Falstaff saying, If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host...
  6. Loyalist Dave

    Looking for info on builder WTB

    While true, IF the rifle shoots well the value to you will be much much higher. The satisfaction of a good target, or (imho) even better venison or small game on the table from a good shooting rifle far surpasses the value of the parts. LD
  7. Loyalist Dave

    Remember this Davy Crockett movie scene?

    Big Foot has one of them Hollywood Tuned locks, 🤮 LD
  8. Loyalist Dave

    Flint works loose after multiple shots

    Correct. The back of the flint needs to rest against the jaw screw. You can cut a V in the back of the leather OR you can get a hole punch and put an O through the leather through which the jaw screw will pass. This latter method also ensures that IF the flint falls out, the leather stays with...
  9. Loyalist Dave

    Only one gun allowed!

    AGREED. In fact while the longrifle was very popular in the United States, the 20 gauge trade gun was the overall favorite in Canada. In my area I can get shots at deer well under 50 yards. Shot vs. squirrel, rabbit, upland birds, and turkeys. LD
  10. Loyalist Dave

    When did deep frying come along?

    LOL...., 🤣 LD
  11. Loyalist Dave

    Thompson Center coming back?

    Well the video shows a discontinued inline, and a Nikon scope, also discontinued, so there's no way to tell, but the markets being what they are it would be very very odd if they "came back" with a sidelock ML. LD
  12. Loyalist Dave

    First succesful Barktan Deerskin Leather

    Yeah that looks quite nice LD
  13. Loyalist Dave

    Primers

    So a cap is stuck against a nipple, while a primer has an internal part called an "anvil", that performs the function of providing an internal impact surface to for the internal dry chemical compound. A tad more complex than a cap because that part is so small. Could you reuse the anvil from a...
  14. Loyalist Dave

    Spectators

    I normally hold up one finger, NO NOT that one, one INDEX finger, and say, "Hold that thought, as I have to focus on loading or I will blow myself up." That does the trick every time, or at least hasn't failed yet. Although..., one guy got testy, saying, "That's not funny." I replied, "Nope...
  15. Loyalist Dave

    12L14 Steel good enough?

    LD
  16. Loyalist Dave

    How many shots in a row without picking or wiping pan ?

    WOW that's tough, as my .40 I have to stick a toothpick in the touch hole every time I load, while my .54 I am in the habit of wiping every third shot or so, when I swab the bore. Could I go more shots without?..., probably LD
  17. Loyalist Dave

    Where/how can I get a cheap powder horn? I can DIY most of it, I’m not picky.

    So IF you want to end up with this, and measure the powder as it comes from the horn, and then dump that charge into your rifle... PLEASE DON'T IF you want to pour the powder into a fixed measure, aka a "charger" or into an adjustable measure, and then pour that into your rifle or smoothbore...
  18. Loyalist Dave

    Fort Frederick 18th Century Market Fair

    Good place to pick up a few clay pipes if you partake of tobacco, Look hard for knapped flints for the firearms, as they are getting much harder to find..., pick them out by hand..., Kentucky Leather and Hide has scrap leather bundles if you do leatherwork..., perfect for cartridge boxes, knife...
  19. Loyalist Dave

    Antiqued 1858 Pietta

    I've been mustard-browning for 22 years now. I know because I started doing it when my boy turned two, and it gave me a method of browning, patina, or aging of carbon steel both for knives and guns, that used something that was non-toxic. So my then 2-year-old son could get into the stuff and...
  20. Loyalist Dave

    Do you have to do an FFL transfer of a muzzleloader in Va. ??

    The key to what I was pointing out is the "conversion" to modern ammo. There are folks that do this but think that by disassembly the revolver is now back to being an antique firearm. Which is fine unless somebody gets involved in a scenario where Law Enforcement gets involved, and the user is...
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