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    original style combustibles my way

    It both burns through and busts through. The explosion of the cap ruptures the base of the cartridge so you don't need to tear open the base to expose the powder. Some of Colt's original cartridges used very thin tin foil from Germany. The idea of the tin was it would not hold an ember. I...
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    "neck" knives

    Well whites in Scandinavia used/carry neck knives- the Lapps. As I understand it, in the winter they find it more convenient than having a knife on a belt that may get buried in bulky clothes/parkas, etc. What's even more interesting is the similarity of the sheath, with a center seam.
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    Stock Cast off

    One other point, in many instances you don't need that much, maybe 1/4" to 3/16". I would think 1/2" is too much but remember, this cast off business is similar to a shotgun, you tailor the amount to your body structure. There are 2 or 3 votes for the benefits and I'll add another. The first...
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    Deer Hunting

    My family is from the extreme western part of the state (Ft. Robinson). I think there might have always been a deer or two but now a days they have come back big time- totally a different situation. Back in yesteryear the hunters in the family went after ducks. Kids shot rabbits.
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    Six shooter C&B

    Well, maybe there is a little evidence. There is a photo of Confederate cavalry man Maddox (sic?) with all 6 loaded. Six years after Robert E. Lee died someone fired off his Colt 1851 and all 6 chambers fired okay. Maybe the most compelling is the fact that the military almost universally used...
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    Six shooter C&B

    It is true that the hammer on an empty chamber will have the bolt in the notch and lock up the gun better than on a pin. You cannot argue otherwise. To me, there are two issues, carrying a holstered gun and carrying a gun by hand. This issue of dropping a gun. If in a holster- you would have...
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    Tired of looking at brass grommets...?

    Yeah, that's a really good idea.
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    Six shooter C&B

    I'm not being argumentative and in the past I've been wrong on a few thing, so never say never, but it still seems to me highly unlikely that a dropped gun will rotate a cylinder far enough to put the hammer under a cap and then create enough force on the hammer to fire the cap. That test I...
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    Six shooter C&B

    I guess I'm missing something. To the best of my knowledge NO ONE is advocating lowering the hammer on a cap and carrying the revolver in that manner. So, the face of the hammer has a groove that is lowered on the pin in between the chambers, so the hammer isn't on a cap. You can beat on the...
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    Six shooter C&B

    This issue seems to come up all the time and will not go away. Folks want to put the revolver through a torture test to see if they can "make" it fire. Now consider a side by side shotgun with a slide safety. The slide moves a tab of metal forward so the sear can raise in back and...
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    Dutch Oven tamales

    Well, some of this is trying to be PC- at least to some extent. The jerky was "back up" meat. If I get any small game I figured I'd boil it some and then cut it off the bone and add chili powder, cumin, maybe chopped up onion and jalapeno. On the beef jerky, carne seca is dried meat- used...
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    Dutch Oven tamales

    Going out to the desert on the border in a month or so. Primitive camping back of beyond. Yee Haw :thumbsup: Well I got thinking about some new thing to cook. Chili is okay but then thought about tamales. They're wrapped up in cornhusks so no plate needed and you can toss the husk in the...
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    Painted Stock Trade Rifles?

    Indigo was the only natural blue dye I know of and was grown in the South Carolina low country. On the painted stocks of NW Trade guns..... are you sure that is pc? Never heard of it. I had a real problem with Min-wax- the wood didn't take it. I then used...
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    Nickel Plating

    Any one know of any reliable outfits that do nickel plating for a reasonable cost?
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    Painted Stock Trade Rifles?

    What kind of stain are you using? Mini-wax and similar stains aren't to my liking. Go to Woodcrafters and instead of stain get a brown walnut dye. I have never found a piece of wood that won't take such a dye. You'll have a nice walnut colored stock. If the stock is two piece- couple of...
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    Patches Keep Coming out Brown

    I'll join in with others on the oil. If you have oil in the bore and don't clean it out with rubbing alcohol before shooting, that oil turns into a brown tar that is the devil to get out. It looks like rust. You need oil to ward off rust but right before shooting try swabbing with the alcohol-...
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    Load for a .36 Navy

    20 grains sounds about right. You don't want any air space between the powder and the ball so you want to seat the ball down on the powder. If you use a wad, that's okay, just seat the ball down firm, with the wad between powder and ball. As a general rule you want the ball as close to the...
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    Going to Boston

    Lobster is Maine, eat scrod and baked beans.
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    Going to Boston

    Hey MinnieBall1: Boston is a big city with a lot of traffic congestion. Lexington (the green) and Minuteman Park are west of downtown sort of in the suburbs. I'd try there if time is limited. Bunker Hill is in the North End and today it is just a crowded "Archie Bunker" type neighborhood...
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    Pack Axe

    When they say cast steel- there are two different ways that could happen. One way would be to cast a tool (sand cast). The second and what I always thought, was that "Cast Steel" was simply the product, like a bar of cast steel, with carbon distributed throughout the metal, and then this...
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