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  1. Biz

    Penny Knife for Patches?

    I've carried that knife, or one very similar, for about 40 years. The only part I don't think is PC is the nail groove. I think it's as close as you can get without spending big bucks. Bill
  2. Biz

    Belt Bags

    Bullet bags were common for rangers and provincials . From Knox's journal. "A leathern, or seal's skin bag, buckled round their waist, which hangs down before, contains bullets, and a smaller shot, of the size of full-grown peas : six or seven of which, with a ball, they generally load" Here is...
  3. Biz

    "Best" flint position............

    Mike , I remember our comander searching in the bottom of a canoe for a lost flint during the F&I event at Ft de Chartres last fall. He was using lead to hold his flint.:( Bill
  4. Biz

    SkyChief load works.

    I tried the Skychief loading method yesterday in my 16 ga. Officer's fusil and had the same result as NorthFork. Effectively every pellet into a 30 in. circle at 25 yds. My load was 80 gr of 2f goex, 1 thin os card, 1 1/8 in dry felt wad, (I didn't have any nitro cards) 1 1/4 oz no. 4 shot , 1...
  5. Biz

    Bee's Wax

    There is a ad for beeswax in the forum classified section. Bill
  6. Biz

    Dumb question flintlock squirrles

    Eric, Maybe you could solder a brass or steel shim to the bottom of the frizzen and file to fit. Bill
  7. Biz

    RB Diameter for Bare Ball Loads in a 20ga. SB?

    David, For about four years I shot chewed balls in my New England fowling gun (.735 ball in .745 bore) for the same reason you did (woods walks, so many targets, so little time). The balls were lubed with 50-50 beeswax olive oil and loaded with no wads over 90 grs of 2fg. Accuracy was as good as...
  8. Biz

    Priming Flask

    Check this thread from 2013. Biz https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/priming-item.83358/
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