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    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    It is, but it removes the natural lanolin and dries the fibers out. You can restore after that with a soak in eucalan and water - which can soften even a scratchy blanket up some. Wool is hair, so hand wash with shampoo or woolite and lukewarm water basically can’t hurt it. I have a couple...
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    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    One other thing is that moths tend to get them along folds - where there’s no air or light. Once you get them out in the light cleaned and unfolded, that’s a less favorable environment for moths to survive. But I still always give mine a week in the freezer or outside in negative temps. Good...
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    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    I’ve cleaned up a few as a precaution. I usually stick them in a deep freezer for a week or let them outside in a garbage bag if it’s going to be below zero. I’ve read that real cold can kill the eggs. Then I get a big plastic tote and set it up in the shower, and wash them by hand with woolite...
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    Home defense black powder shotgunhome defense black powder shotgun

    Even in Mayberry and rural areas, there are plenty of criminals around. Like you I attended high school with some, several of whom have been in and out of prison. The other concern is that you often can’t rely on the police because one or two officers might be responsible for patrolling entire...
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    $1,000 budget (set on stone): What should I recommend?

    I might have missed it, but what was your recommendation for a reliable flintlock for no more than $1,000? I had a couple Lyman Deerstalkers that honestly weren’t bad hunting rifles. They’re short, handy, not much heavier than a 30-30, and accurate enough. I think they are out of production...
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    $1,000 budget (set on stone): What should I recommend?

    I’ve owned a few flintlocks, and worrying too much about the budget has always been detrimental. I liked the more historical guns - smoothbores and especially guns appropriate to the American colonies. But they were more expensive, so I settled for Lymans and a used TC. And really, those guns...
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    kibler fowling piece

    It’s been a rough few years. Anyone who can get excited about anything fun these days - a new muzzleloader or something else - I’m all for it.
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    Knife Ideas?

    Apologies for the shadows. I just got a couple Nowill knives from Bernal cutlery. The shipping was pretty fast and the knives were accurately described. I really like the 6” myself - has just a little bigger handle, about 3/32” thick blade at the spine, and an overall nice heft. The 5” is...
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    Sources of treated tinder fungus?

    I know people use chaga as an herbal remedy, and I think horse hoof polypores have had medicinal uses too. I have harvested some from dead birch trees and exposed the felt-like layer directly under the hard shell. You can’t use the pores or the shell as a tinder. It’s pretty tough to get the...
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    Searching info on CVA Bobcat

    My father bought one in the mid 1990’s at Walmart for around $60. He didn’t shoot it a whole lot, but it did work fine. I’ve seen them priced around $200 recently.
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    Battlefield Pickup Flint

    I think it was about 15 years ago that TOTW was tossing in three Napoleonic War musket flints with each order. They were a little dirty and mostly dull. I still have them. Tried them on a D. Aune striker and they still spark if I find a sharp edge.
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    Striker

    I think they liked to show off skill and add a decorative touch, but there is still function too. The one in this photo with the leather lanyard was made to my request. I wanted a lanyard ring, a makers stamp, and a bump at the knuckles to keep it positioned when striking.
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    Recommendations for .40 RB..

    It depends on the bore size. Sometimes you just have to measure stuff or experiment.
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    Any ideas on how i canbuse a .50 hawken for squirrels

    You could try a .40 ball with a sabot. The ball has to press out against the sabot hard enough to engage the rifling. A .36 probably won’t press out enough, but a .40 might. You might find someone here who could sell you a partial box cheap if you ask.
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    Things said that make me want to shoot alone

    I’d have challenged the guy to a duel. Seriously though - you could challenge him to a competition in which the loser buys a pound of powder for the winner.
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    Smooth Bore Revolver

    A bigger problem in a percussion revolver is that it relies on a really tight ball swaged into the chamber during loading. The balls have to stay seated during recoil to keep the cylinder from getting tied up, and to prevent space between the powder and projectile allowing a KB. If you are...
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    Moulding balls

    One thing I’ll add is that though it seems obvious, solid lead and molten lead weigh the same. Don’t load too much lead in to melt that you can’t handle it safely.
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    Moulding balls

    Some degree of purification took place, because most of my lead was dug out of the walls of a chiropractor’s old X-ray room. I have also melted wheelweights and recovered bullets a few times. A lot of random junk was usually burned off - I used shavings of candle wax to flux and burn impurities...
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    Moulding balls

    I’ve smelted and fluxed scrap lead in an old cast iron pot over a fire pit before, and got really nice, clean lead from it. I keep any scrap lead at this point because I can at the very least melt it for a smoothbore, even if it’s too hard for a rifle. Any odd bullets I end up with, random shot...
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    who is this famous person and what are the guns?

    Yeah, I had to look it up but I knew I had seen a 2 trigger rifle before. Wesson is the only one I know of who made them. The open top on the right (Colt?) may be missing its loading lever. It’s my understanding that some photos of this era included props that were owned by photographers. It’s...
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