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  1. Howard Pippin

    Round Ball Tumbling With Graphite

    On a different note, graphite is one of my favorite lubes, and is the best cure ever for sticky clips used on unmentionables. Very good for zippers and rifle bolts too. It's also available in a white form. Squint
  2. Howard Pippin

    Weighing round balls

    I discovered when I make round balls and weigh them, the ones the weigh a grain too heavy are easily fixed will a file on the sprue. It takes very little. I like to get rid of the unknown factors when shooting for sight adjustments.
  3. Howard Pippin

    How old are ya?

    85, and things are getting harder to do. I've shot muzzle loaders for 34 years.
  4. Howard Pippin

    T/C Hawken Hammer Problem

    Good morning Eric. I do drill my nipples out, most of the time the factory ones measure, .026 and using 777, lots of misfires. using number drills, right now I go up to about .031. They don't last as long before I have to replace, but I don't have misfires and I can buy 777 or pyrodex where I...
  5. Howard Pippin

    Fake Websites

    Why people buy from sites like this are a mystery to me. There's a lot of good sites out there from midway to track of the wolf that have everything I need and at a fair price. Time has taught me that if sounds too good to be true, then it's not true. Squint
  6. Howard Pippin

    Glad to be here.

    Welcome from eastern Montana.
  7. Howard Pippin

    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    we seem to have a tendency to forget that movies are for entertainment and that's their only redeeming feature. I must admit I quit watching movies quite a few years ago and I even question some of the documentaries that I watch because they sometimes don't get things real right. The one that...
  8. Howard Pippin

    Caps Made In Idaho

    I enjoy your comments ETip, Black powder hasn't been available in my area for 10-15 years, so in percussion I've moved into 777. Caps were around, but now they're getting in short supply. Plan on checking on some soon, the closes place is 41 miles and the next is 120 miles away. Of course as...
  9. Howard Pippin

    Caps Made In Idaho

    I surely don't wanna get an argument, but I don't snap a cap either on a clean rifle. I've never had a misfire with a clean percussion, it was always one that I had already shot a few times. I do open up my nipple hole to at least .031 on my percussions and maybe that increases the odds of not...
  10. Howard Pippin

    Do you gut your deer?

    This was my way of doing it for years, I carried a really good tripod 10 feet tall and I would immediately skin the critter as soon as I got there, and then gut it like we did on the ranch I was raised on. Easy to do, just like with mutton. We even did beef that way that we shot in the corral...
  11. Howard Pippin

    Black powder or Pyrodex

    The problem isn't as bad as it seems, if you are shooting a percussion it will work just fine and I don't think you can tell hardly any difference as long as you use the same amount with a measure and not a scale. If it's a flintlock, you can go to a duplex load. You'll have to use about four...
  12. Howard Pippin

    How many shots?

    I bought a bunch of cheap arrow heads off of Amazon, and looks like most of them, if i maybe break the tip off, would work for a pretty good Flint. Haven't had a chance to find out i sure will have to try. Squint
  13. Howard Pippin

    Barrel length and velocity of patched balls

    I would appreciate it if you could add some kind of proof that something continues to accelerate after the acceleration force is removed. Everything I know of Might remain almost as fast as it did when it left the accelerant, but it definitely can't speed up without some force behind it. Squint
  14. Howard Pippin

    Ramrods, Hunting, other than wood ....

    the problem people seem to have with people using something besides Hickory for a muzzle loader ramrod, makes me look at the steel ones that were used during the civil war that apparently are period Correct. Those that are bothered by something besides Hickory should look at that steel used in...
  15. Howard Pippin

    Flintlock Rifle Flash Hole Placement

    I have a Lyman left hand flint-lock and one of the things I observed after using it for several years was the flash hole was below a line that would be at the top of the pan. As the Flint and hammer assembly and pan are not fastened to the barrel, but to the side of the stock, I was able to...
  16. Howard Pippin

    "Seasoning" the bore...

    Please don't pick on us that choose not to be traditional in the choice of our rifles or how we use them. I hope you are living in a teepee or a brush Hogan, burning Buffalo chips, and if you are, more power to you, just be careful of the fringe element. Remember, not to use anything synthetic...
  17. Howard Pippin

    Bore Seasoning

    Some 35 years ago, I was using bore butter in my percussion, a friend I worked with, that is now deceased, made-up some patch Lube using mutton fat and neat foot oil, and said, here try this I think it's pretty good. Well I did and it seemed to shoot fine, left my rifle loaded for about four...
  18. Howard Pippin

    Mold fills

    I realize that this topic has been worked pretty hard, but I got interested in wheel weights round balls as I have pretty good access to w-w and the hardness doesn't bother me as I shoot mainly paper. I had made some up in a .049 diameter ball where I had discovered that the pipe led I was using...
  19. Howard Pippin

    Simple question…..

    I don't know of many advantages of living in Montana, besides being isolated which helps, but another plus is that it hardly ever rains, especially during hunting season. This was the last year for me, I gave it up now but I never remember hunting in the rain. I have hunted in the wind ,more...
  20. Howard Pippin

    What kind of stuff do you all read?

    We're all different, I gave up on fiction except for science fiction, which is far enough out that I don't get it confused with facts. I definitely don't read anything that's fictionalized about the Bible, I don't need to get that confused with the real Bible or even those darn movies that are...
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