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    Opinions on TVM Early Virginia Rifle?

    My .58 TVM Early Va has the Rice bbl with round bottom rifling and iron fittings, and the Chambers Dale Johnson lock. Mine also prefers that 120gr load of Goex, it will do 5-shot ragged hole groups @ 50yds with it. Elephant 2Fg is nearly as good, though it needs 125gr. The rifle doesn't like...
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    Priming with main charge powder

    I have primed with 2f and 3f and it works ok, but I prefer to make my priming powder by lightly grinding (small) amounts of 2f or 3f in a wooden mortar, the result is a mix of granulations ranging from fine dust up to 2f(3f). This lights off in the pan with more authority than 4f, and seems to...
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    Let's talk about breech "gunk"!

    You didn't mention if this was the first string of the day, maybe it wasn't? Shooting without wiping won't clean a plug that is already fouled, so it's possible you were just seeing the fouling from the previous string where you were wiping between shots. I don't shoot a smoothbore but I never...
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    Flat faced jags

    He may well think that, but that's not what a jag is for. All a jag can do is run the patch up and down and press it flat against the breech. But patting down the breech with a cleaning patch is a pretty painful way of cleaning it, and trying to optimize the efficiency of the "pat" is the...
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    TVM Virginia Range trip #4

    It'll settle down a bit over time, not so much from the rifle itself settling in (thiugh that will happen some too) but your getting used to it, figuring out what it wants, and settling into a consistent routine. My .58 TVM Early Virginia prefers heavyish charges, I use a 0.570 ball, a 0.020...
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