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    Bubbles in the base of cast minies

    So obviously having a bubble like the one in the attached picture will reduce accuracy. My question is, is firing a minie with a bubble like this unsafe at all? Would the pressure lead to the bullet breaking up and leaving fragments behind at all? So long as they're safe to fire, I'm going to...
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    Lyman 575-213 old vs new style in springfield 1861

    After ordering bullets, and shipping clearly playing havoc on them, I'm realizing I'm going to have to think about casting my own bullets. I have 100 575-213 new style bullets, some of which very likely aren't salvageable (including a couple that apparently were thrown at .590. My barrel gauged...
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    Minie Sizing, Before or After Lubrication?

    Another day, another new-idiot-to-black-powder-shooting question. Do you run bullets through a sizer before or after lubricating them? For context these are .58 caliber minies for use in a pedersoli springfield 1861. Barrel gauged at .577, so I'm going with .575 bullets to make sure if I'm...
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    How Often to Linseed Oil a Traditional Rifle Stock

    Pretty much what the title says, how often do you give your musket's stock a little TLC and give it a coat of linseed oil?
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    Breech Plug On a New Gun

    So, when you get a new gun that has a threaded breech plug, do you take it out and do anything to it? Apply grease or anti-seize? Or do you just let it be, and not think about its existence unless you really need to access the bore of the gun from the breech end?
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    1861 Springfield Repro First Time Clean and Protectant Question

    Hello all! I am new to black powder, and absolutely got into it to get into historical guns (or reproductions thereof...), and I am in the act of acquiring a reproduction 1861 Springfield. As someone who shoots modern smokeless guns quite a bit (I shoot 2 and 3 gun), there are a lot of things...
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