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  1. John Applebee

    Casting Minie’s Help Needed

    Pure lead has a surface tension which rounds off all the edges and prevents good looking bullets. The black powder cartridge guys add tin to increase the hardness to around Brinnell 8 which makes the melt flow easier like soldier The only way I’ve fixed this with pure lead is to run the pot and...
  2. John Applebee

    Hello from Nottingham in the UK.

    Welcome from Leicester, it’s good to have another Brit in the camp
  3. John Applebee

    boring out zouave

    I just bought a Zoli .58 smoothie on gunstar and I think it’s going to be fun to shoot. I’ll keep an eye out for the 8g
  4. John Applebee

    On casting roundballs......

    The best lead is Victorian underground water pipe. It’s first generation right out of the mine so it’s really soft and pure although it does get more difficult to find as time goes by. It need to melted so the crud can be scraped off and the cast into ingots
  5. John Applebee

    Here I am in the middle of England ain’t the internet wonderful

    The knaped flints we get, I am told come from India. So now I plan to make cut flints using a diamond tile cutter with English flint from the East coast not far from Grimes Graves. I’ll keep you posted how it goes
  6. John Applebee

    WHICH POWDER and HOW MUCH is TOO MUCH.

    How much powder do I need in a 54 cal Hawken to shoot a big bear.
  7. John Applebee

    Black powder Storage Question

    At my club we buy our powder in bulk once a year. 25kg/55lb. It comes from the Czech republic loose in a plastic bag that is in a cardboard enclosure. We sell it for £22 a kilo which is about a third of the price of Swiss black.
  8. John Applebee

    Black powder Storage Question

    In the UK we have to have an explosives licence then we can store up to15kg/33lbs of black powder but it has to be stored in a wooden box with compartments usually nine to a box and then only in half kilo containers. The box has to be made of ¾ inch plywood as a minimum. I have two boxes that I...
  9. John Applebee

    molds

    The best moulds are neither Aluminium or Steel they are made from a cast iron called Meehanite. It's very pure, consistent and close grained making it ideal for moulds needing on polishing after the cut is made. With proper care an iron mould will last a life time.
  10. John Applebee

    Here I am in the middle of England ain’t the internet wonderful

    Well here I am in the middle of England and they say around here that you don’t have to learn to swim because we are as far away from the sea as you can get (its only 72 miles). Anyway enough of this, muzzLe loading is what it’s all about. Here in the UK about the best rifles we can get is...
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