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    Hawken Rifles, What's All The Hoopla?!

    Fair enough…but Hawken architecture mimicked Harper’s Ferry guns which mimicked English sporting rifles….serious durable guns used a very along way from the silk stockings store and the powdered wig parlor. Like Glocks , Hawkens get a pass in “the gun universe “ because they do/did it...
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    Suggestions for 'old time' dark/black stain or dye?

    In a small jar I put about 1/2 cup of 5% vinegar and a steelwool pad ..in a week I have a water based stain that turns most hardwoods a deep gray/black…darkens pine too…once you learn how it behaves you can use it to antique wooden things.
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    Conical for bull elk

    Idaho Ron is right on the money…what he is demonstrating is that accuracy is everything…shot placement is critical to success…Elk as incredibly stout tough beasts that they are, drop readily with heart lung shots .this is 240gr .45 cal all lead bullet after a double lung shot at 83 yds.this bull...
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    Kibler side effect?

    I’ve taken several “gun projects” from literally a board and multiple sourced parts pile to a nice handling/ shooting rifle… that said… A Kibler kit at $1300-$1500 is a BARGAIN beyond your imaginations if you’ve not built a “scratch” gun…all the boring, tedious, mundane hours of actual work has...
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    Show your Muzzleloading gems.

    Finished these up this last month…
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    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    Obviously 45 conicals are my first choice for killing anything with a muzzleloader…. But 45 cal round balls are a 50yd prospect on deer.
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    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    Yep….that’s what I believe and have observed over a dozen times…a saucer shaped flattened round ball against the bruised hide just inside on the offside of a dead deer…. In these modern times of plenty, with hundreds of years of muzzleloader hunting experience accounts to draw upon including our...
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    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    As an observation…during the time (1600, 1700, early 1800) when ball and patches were the serious working ammo of the day…all the militaries of the times used large caliber weapons 75, 69, 58, 54 …apparently when something needed defending or lethally wounding with immediate certainty, big...
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    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    I can’t help noticing how much better guns and ammo and people perform in forums (as told) and here in cyberspace in general…. Without the explosive cell rupturing destructive benefit of hydrostatic pressure…well….a shooter is basically just drilling a 45 cal hole in his quarry … since it’s...
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    DAISY PATCHES FROM OCTOBER COUNTRY

    Definitely not putting my authentic cast balls in something with a name like that…
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    DAISY PATCHES FROM OCTOBER COUNTRY

    I have no curiosity as to how another patches their balls…for the curious and the record: My balls won’t be patched in daisies, pansies or tulips or any of those plastic cups with the funny French name that nobody says correctly.
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    DAISY PATCHES FROM OCTOBER COUNTRY

    How come you know so much about what’s in a gay mountain man’s shooting purse?….🤔
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    Lyman Rifle Accuracy

    Here’s what I know with certainty; Open sights are the obvious limiting factor at play here. At 100 yds even the young eyes experience about a 2 inch sighting error with post and notch system…if the ball shot perfectly the same every shot, this margin of error is 4 inches. Add a peep and...
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    My first attempt at Rococo

    Very very fine work…
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    wasting powder & caps

    After using black powder and cannon fuse to crack some pretty good sized boulders (with about a 200gr charge in a drilled hole packed with powder , paper, mud)…. I wouldn’t give a flask even the slightest possibility of going off in your hand ever.
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    Triple 7 3f

    Triple 7 is an excellent BP substitute powder…for me it’s been the least compression sensitive of the substitutes….T7 seems to have slightly more energy than real BP, so a little less is needed to duplicate a load developed with BP…. My guess is the extra umph of T7 is blow torching your patches...
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    Iron skeleton stock .45

    I love it…Now I have questions…. What area of the country is it’s suspect origin and time period? Who made it , owned it , used it? Somebody was making do with what they had…a trait most admire.
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    How I Engrave A Powder Horn

    Absolutely wonderful work…
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    Sharon Rifle kit or Thompson Center

    I have a 50 cal Sharon TC replacement barrel…it’s slow twist and deep rifling make it a tack driving round ball shooter…. I suspect yours is an exceptional shooter also…. That modern TC mass production look didn’t suit me so I ditched the TC parts and kept that fine shooting barrel….about 40...
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    Failure :’(

    It’s way better than a stuck ball thread🥱…..because A STUCK BALL IS AN ACTUAL PROBLEM.. that might have multiple solutions…and meaningful discussion.
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