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    Need a cleaning solution recipe.

    Yup, spit works quite fine, seen it in use many times. Last time i visited the pharmacy i noticed they sell spit substitute in nice blue bottles, maybe worth a try?
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    Minie ball fell out of .58 Mississippi rifle

    If You cast them Yourself You can put a thin sheet of paper between the mould halves (the cavity excluded), this would produce oval bullets with the "big diameter" the paper thickness bigger than the "small diameter" the ovality shoud not affect precision. To recalibrate ready bullets- just...
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    lead source

    Over here lead from scrapped cables is the far most common source of pure soft lead. I hauled some 160 lbs home the other day. If You want it harder just add some printing lead into the melt (only little of this or the result will be too hard).
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    what did we do wrong

    This sound strange. The balls didn
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    Mountain Howitzer dimensions

    Hi, Does anyone have the proper dimensions of a 6 pound MT Howitzer? Primary I need the outline dims for the barrel itself. Cal .61
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    Greetings from the Big Island

    You
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    cleaning with mineral spirits, is it any good?

    oldmaster, I totally agree! In a muzzle loaderI use: HOT water with a small amount of machine dish washer detergent (white powder). The hot water solves the BP residue and heats the gun for easier evaporation. The detergent helps cleaning and this particular detergent helps preventing from...
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    Bullet design

    Olie, Thanks for the hint. Hereby i Order a box of Orrville Redanbocher popcorn. However I would not use the box as a wad, I
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    Cap And Ball Revolvers For Personal Protection?

    Weird! Having loaded guns laying around a house where there live kids. Planning for a masssive gunfight in Your home? :shocking: I would most certainly move somewhere this bizarre scenario don't have to take place. I feel sick about this and sorry for You. You must live in a warzone. :sorry...
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    cleaning with mineral spirits, is it any good?

    I
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    Bullet design

    Hi Olie, You bet I
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    Anyone had main charge go off while using ramrod ?

    I dont know! If I did there would be no need for this discussion. As there is others sharing part of my filosofy on this topic i might seem nagging. My thougts are these: Blowing charges an ember with oxygen and makes it deplete its fuel supply, the moist of the breath helpes cool/wet the...
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    Dad

    Alot of shooting going on here isn
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    Dad

    I guess Kids are normally curious and boys tend to like noise and smoke more than girls, or was it the other way? Well You got me having a bad conscience. I remember me persuading my son taking a shot with my CG80 (target 6,5 X 55 SE) The poor little dude was pushed 4 inches backwards lying on...
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    Hazel Wood for stocks ?

    Blahman, I totally agree :hatsoff: A good laugh prolongs the .. face :crackup: C.U. Cal .61
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    Hazel Wood for stocks ?

    We
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    Anyone had main charge go off while using ramrod ?

    Heared on my last reenactment a guy shot himself in the stomach when leaning over his muzzle. It was less than a minute after he reloaded the musket He used a paper wad rammed down ontop of the powder. Post shot analyzis showed that the primercap was not hammered (the shot went off by an ember...
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    Dad

    Heey guy
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    But waite.....there's more!!!!

    Ok. Now we know what You are doing, but WHERE are You doing it? I Can see a rifle bench and an arm chair. Oh sorry, I didn
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    Brass casting

    LSU TIGER, My current internet connection in to slow for those links to work nice. I
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