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    Why is it the least expensive ML rifles I own………………

    Shoot the best for me? I had this thought yesterday as I was shooting a new-to-me .45 T/C Hawken picked up at a Gun Show a few weeks ago. I bought it as part of a combo deal with an unmentionable (rhymes with block) and think I got a good deal on the pair. I am into the T/C for somewhere...
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    Chuck box and storage boxes

    Modified this surplus rocket box and built some folding stands, a shelf and box. Figure the small box for canned goods and the lip around the rocket box lid keeps stuff on top from sliding off the back when opened. The larger box slides under the bed for clothes and sundry storage and the...
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    Knock-down camp table

    Earlier this year I built a camp table out of “upcycled” pallet wood. I took it to exactly one rendezvous before deciding it was far too heavy and cumbersome. So, the old one got repurposed as a shop table and I built a new camp table that knocks down and is generally much lighter. It will...
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    A first attempt at a Gourd Canteen

    In my never ending quest for the next project, to prevent me from working on existing projects, I decided I needed a Gourd Canteen. Because you know, just because. Anyway, I found and ordered a few possible victims off the interweb and got busy. I selected one from the bunch that was not the...
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    Built some range benches

    Some members mentioned some benches out among the ranges would be nice so I built some. I had started gathering hardi siding pallets from various construction sites to build myself some camp furniture and sourced several more. The Contractors are tickled for me to take the pallets as they...
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    Picked up an old N.O.S. Uberti 3rd Dragoon

    Kinda interesting example. Appears somebody put it away (poorly) and never shot it. Some little rust freckling and a dime sized lightly pitted patch on the cylinder. For the price I paid I am not at all unhappy. And one particular feature has me intrigued, the rammer lever latch is the later...
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    What mold is this?

    Added exponentially to my mold collection today. Bought out an old friend’s stash. Don’t think we found them all, and he is probably going to give me a bunch of bullets he has already cast. May try and buy his very extensive reloading equipment also. But I digress. Got this .50 (?) Maxi...
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    Fun afternoon with the Kibler .58 smoothbore

    Finally got a little caught up and went to an informal muzzle loader shoot Sunday afternoon at the club. I decided to take my new Kibler Colonial .58 smoothbore for the outing. Did not shoot it a lot but enough to tell it is a fine shooter*. I had on hand .562 balls cast in a Lee mold...
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    Tell me about this J. Brown Smoothbore .62

    Just bought this off a trade blanket and I don’t know what to call it, it has no serpent and I don’t think it is meant to be a trade gun. Kinda plain with steel furniture, not really a Fowler I suppose? Some kind of poor boy? Bore measures .625 on a 42” barrel and has what I think is an L&R...
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    Modified Crazy Crow Brazier

    Bought this Brazier from Crazy Crow a while back. I like it and it was very fairly priced but had an issue I could not live with. The grill at the top pivoted open on one of the cross bars near the back but not the one all the way back. That meant that when open the grill blocked half of the...
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    I make beater

    Tent pegs beware. As Clint said in Pale Rider, “nothing like a nice piece of hickory”. If my old Scoutmaster had seen my hatchet work he would have busted me back to Webelo, and my Shop Teacher would have gave me an “F” for safety violations on the table saw but here we are.
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    What “Primitive” (fixed) sight is on this Renegade?

    Pulled this Renegade out of my rack the other day to admire and realized it had a fixed sight that I did not recall. Not sure when or where I got this rifle. I have a “Round Ball Twist” Renegade I prefer for shooting round ball, and a rough drilled and tapped, fiberglass rod, Renegade (both...
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    Clanman92 Capote A+

    I recently received one of Clanman92’s excellent wool blanket Capotes to augment my admittedly meager vous’ wardrobe. Now I don’t know squat about Capotes or making garments from wool blankets and a similar amount of squat about making clothing from a pattern. In spite of that ignorance I do...
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    Is Schuetzen 4f particularly nasty?

    I used up the last of my Goex 4f a while back and broke into a new can of Schuetzen 4f for priming. The Schuetzen leaves a hard black residue in the pan upon firing. As in I can’t even wipe it out, I have to scrape it out with my vent pick. I polished the pan and that did not help, the...
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    Just call me “dry ball”

    Lord knows I have earned it. Sunday was a week ago I dry balled my Green Mountain barreled T/C Hawken. No excuse, was all by myself on the range, no distractions, just did it. I removed the nipple and packed as much 4f under it as would go. Reinstalled the nipple, aimed at the side berm, CCI...
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    Garlic balls

    I cast up some .620 balls for my Trade gun the other day and lacking a suitable container I resorted to a zip-lock bag. Then a few days ago I emptied a mid-sized plastic container of garlic powder while cooking. I immediately thought it would make a fine lead ball container once I removed the...
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    Naked ball and lubed wad arrangement?

    I have been having fun shooting a bare .562 ball over a home made lubed Durafelt wad in my .56 smoothbore Renegade. The ball goes down with very little encouragement (and stays down) and shoots pretty good groups. A couple of weeks back I picked up a .62 mold I thought might work similarly in...
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    “Aging” an Old Hickory knife

    I would like to make this knife a little prettier and more PC/HC. I’m thinking sanding and staining the stocks but I don’t know what to do about the blade. Just use it and abuse it until it gains some honest patina?
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    Italian Navy 1851/61 Nipple sizes

    So I have four of these Italian made 1851/1861 revolvers now, with seven cylinders between them and have noticed a couple of things about what caps fit. I try and standardize on CCI #11 caps as that is what is most available to me, and not coincidentally what I have on hand. The #11s fit my...
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    Cold bending percussion hammers

    I have read, and contributed to several hammer bending threads here on the forum. Interestingly a lot of people post about heating the hammers, and indicating it is a must. Well, I just did my fifth hammer and bent it cold just like the others. Almost 40 years ago I destroyed a hammer heating...
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