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  1. J

    Original Antique rifles...avoid them? or not?

    Beautiful facility, Centerburg. We skirmish there three weekends a year. Whoever attends should have a great time!
  2. J

    Range Lead...yea or nay?

    Don't mess with batteries! They are dangerous!! This was posted here some weeks ago: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=40769 Read and heed!!
  3. J

    Lubing and sizing. Or sizing and lubing?

    And I just found loading tubes at Dixie, too: http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=7714 :thumbsup:
  4. J

    Lubing and sizing. Or sizing and lubing?

    Here's a link to the Winchester Sutler's explanatory page. They call them QuickCharge Tubes: http://cwsutler.hypermart.net/ShotLoad.html#QCTube The ones shown here are the soft vinyl type, with rounded bases. The other major type are harder plastic with flat bases, and look a lot like a big...
  5. J

    Lubing and sizing. Or sizing and lubing?

    No, the caplugs are not speedloaders. As I understand them, speedloaders are designed to have the ramrod pass through them while they are held in place over the muzzle. N-SSA rules disallow any loading device that requires the ramrod to pass through it. The reason is to keep fingers and other...
  6. J

    Lubing and sizing. Or sizing and lubing?

    Just as there are many formulae for lube, there are many approaches as to when and where to apply it. In the N-SSA, standard practice for revolvers is to load the cylinders, THEN apply the lube (lithium grease, bore butter, whatever) with a fingertip or popsicle-stick spatula so it is flush...
  7. J

    Gunshow Finds

    No doubt good pickups, but I know of no Zouave repro that came from the spaghetti factory without a half-cock. My first guess would be that one of our kitchen-table smithy brethren tried to do some trigger-lightening work and bollixed the tumbler notch in the process. Its absence may be of no...
  8. J

    How to size a mini?

    Two of the best on that list for what you want are S&S Firearms: http://www.ssfirearms.com/ and the Winchester Sutler: http://cwsutler.hypermart.net/TWSwebHome2.html Email or call either and tell 'em you are looking for a .576 (assuming a .577 bore) push-through sizing die. They run $10 - $12...
  9. J

    Zoli Zouave rifle

    If you want maximum accuracy with the minie for which the rifle was designed, then you will find a charge somewhere between 35 and 45 grains of 3f under a properly lubed, dead-soft lead minie sized one- to two- thousandths under bore diameter (almost certainly .577 in your Zoli), will deliver...
  10. J

    Are Substitute Powders Allowed In Competitions?

    The North-South Skirmish Association ( http://www.n-ssa.org ) mandates black powder only at all sanctioned events.
  11. J

    .58 Jaeger Target Loads

    Injun Joe: What is your projectile of choice? You neglected to mention that one little detail...
  12. J

    Conical, mini or maxi, what's the difference?

    Dan: Nice group! If I understand it correctly, your argument at its base seems to be that the roundball is superior in most, if not all, categories to a conical of any design: flatter trajectory, more dependable penetration, etc. As we both know, the relative merits of both projectiles have...
  13. J

    Conical, mini or maxi, what's the difference?

    Dan: With much respect, I'd daresay there's a few tons of venison in freezers back here in the East and Midwest that weigh heavily against your "nearly useless" assessment of the minie's worth. In a decent, properly sighted shallow-groove rifle of medium to slow twist utilizing a carefully...
  14. J

    Log Cabin Shop gets nice write-up

    D'Arcy Egan, outdoor writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, did a nice write-up on the Log Cabin Shop. Take a look, at: http://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2009/03/log_cabin_has_classes_for_rifl.html :applause:
  15. J

    Which smoothbore to build or buy

    Lessee: You want a prizewinning small-bore smoothbore that won't kick but will bring home the "bacon," as it were. Hmmm... :hmm: Speaking of bacon, I'm with Hamkiller -- sort of. Forget smallbore. Go bigbore military -- it unsettles everybody on the line. :surrender: But I'd recommend the...
  16. J

    Looking for shops

    Thanks, Jock. We're kinda partial to it ourselves. :thumbsup: C'mon back when you can spend some quality time discovering a few of the reasons we are a peculiar people. There's always room for one more... :hatsoff:
  17. J

    Winchester Sutler BP Solvent/Patch Lube

    Don't know the product, but Tom & "Crazy" Alice, who ARE Winchester Sutler, are good peops and a couple of hoots, too. I've dropped plenty a buck with them. If they say it works, most likely it does.
  18. J

    Looking for shops

    I don't know what you schedule is like, of course, but if you have time for about a half-day trip out of WDC, you could do a lot worse than to go up to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., and visit the shop of John Zimmerman. http://www.edsmart.com/jz/ John is an excellent Civil-War era gunsmith and his...
  19. J

    RB and point of aim

    Guys: I think some of us are missing Boonedocker's point here. Note, he says: His question, then, is not how to improve his group, but rather, should his good group be "that far" off? The short answer is, yes. It's not at all uncommon. But it can be corrected. Boonedocker, assuming you have...
  20. J

    Making my own balls

    For minies, no. Only pure soft lead will allow proper expansion. :nono: For round balls, there's some debate. :yakyak: Some folks insist it has to be soft, others say for non-engraving balls, it don't make no nevermind. I'm in that latter camp, having shot my '42 ArmiSport Springfield...
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