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  1. RHensley

    what oil to use?

    I tried bore butter and wasn't happy with it. Blue and Gray grease too messey . I tried mixing mink tallow and bees wax. didn't like it. tried straight mink tallow and liked it. This got me to thinking so I ordered and tried lambs tallow. Liked it even better. Now thinking is a dangerous thing...
  2. RHensley

    Black powder vs Zombies

    One more thing. Using a flint lock muzzle-loading gun is just plain fun!
  3. RHensley

    Guns I've made

    When I built my plains rifle with the hooked breech I use dykum ( this is a very blue liquid used by machinist to ck parts fitting. The spelling is wrong . I'm not an enlish teacher) After the tang and hook was fitted good I used just a little brass with torch to hold them together while I filed...
  4. RHensley

    .50 cal vs .54 cal

    What I was trying to get at is in my opinion caliber to a point don't matter. When our old smoke poles were in use the hunter did his or her job so the rifle could do it's. I don't think in those days they too many 300 yard shots at Elk. I believe they got as close as they could and tried to put...
  5. RHensley

    .50 cal vs .54 cal

    When I was raised on the farm we killed hogs and steers for our personal use. We talked about what gun to us and always ended up with the 22 long rifle from a short Winchester short gun. Dad always said just how dead is dead. I've killed lots of deer hogs size animals with a 22long rifle. I've...
  6. RHensley

    Making char punk

    For me it's been the the fallen trees that have all but rotten away . When the wood is almost dirt that's what works best.
  7. RHensley

    Barrel length and velocity?

    In one of the Lyman reloading books (45 I think) It showed that the T/C haw ken with the 28 in. barrel with round ball with X amount of powder shot X speed at the muzzle. It read that for every 1 in. added to the barrels length and extra X amount of feet per second could be added. Now I use X...
  8. RHensley

    Leaving a barrel in the white

    Looks like I will take on another build. I built a 50 cal back in 73 and never was happy with it. The fire arm ended up with my brother who killed many deer with it. Now that we both are considerably older he went to an inline with scope. Age and eyesight has a way to to that to you. To make a...
  9. RHensley

    Thoughts on SPAM "meat"

    Here we go. My grandfather lived to be in his 90's. Hog lard was used for most everything. Baking and frying. Eggs 2-3-4 or ever how many he wanted. What I'm saying is he eat what he wanted. He also broke a pair of mules to the plow at the age of 75. Now me. I've had 3 heart attacks. survived...
  10. RHensley

    Lead Sled....just don't

    I also have found that when setting the sights that a good sand bag fro the front and good control at the rear of the stock works better for me.
  11. RHensley

    Euroarms 44cal Kentuckian Flintlock rifle!

    Glad to hear you enjoyed the shoot and like the flints you've found. Have fun. that's what it's all about.
  12. RHensley

    Euroarms 44cal Kentuckian Flintlock rifle!

    Send me a Private Message (Conversation) and I'll send you my E-Mail address.
  13. RHensley

    Euroarms 44cal Kentuckian Flintlock rifle!

    I think I have a couple of those flints in my shooting box left over from years ago. Send me your shipping address and I'll through them in envelope and send them to you. I'm pretty much content on the napped type English and French and I've had them for many years. It'll be good to put them to...
  14. RHensley

    The Flint - Frizzen Gap

    Keith burgees has a very good video on YouTube for this very thing
  15. RHensley

    A good day hunting

    Really and truly that's what it's all about. A hunting trip like you talked about would be great. Taking an animal would just be an extra. Kind of like having a nice big porterhouse steak. A little salt and pepper. Steak sauce might be OK but not necessary .
  16. RHensley

    Euroarms 44cal Kentuckian Flintlock rifle!

    WHAT IS YOUR LOCATION. These flints are they the sawn flints like with t/c.
  17. RHensley

    Homemade lead tester.

    If you take the photo with your phone send the photo to your computer through email. Then save the photo to the computer in pictures.Be sure to give it a name so you can find it easily. Now when you go to the thread that you just started go to the bottom and you will see three things. one is...
  18. RHensley

    Deer Season is Over. Blah.

    I like to just walk through the woods and every now and again pick out a spot on a stump or fallen log and shoot. As soon as I get over this next back cutting I'll start that again and try to do some fly fishing in the eastern part of the state. Still I do like deer hunting.
  19. RHensley

    Flints

    Your statement is right as rain but let me add one more thing to it. It took a little while to get my technique good enough to use the sharp flint on the steel to get sufficient sparks. I did my best to blame it on the steel the flint but as it turned out when I finely got the striking of the...
  20. RHensley

    Fire arms in the safe

    Back in 73 I built one that I hunted with for a couple of years and then let my brother have it. 38 barrel 50 cal Douglas barrel. This was my first and though it shot well i was never happy with it. It was a long gun built on the Penn. style but I was talked into a T/C percussion lock. Just...
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