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    shotgun and roundball

    I'm wondering if shot buffer around the ball would remove the need for a patch...
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    shotgun and roundball

    It's me again...I'm still hoping for feed back on ball diameter...I think I've got the rest figured out. Muzzle dia is close to .730 and the cheap moulds seem to go from .715 to .735 in one jump unless I've missed something somewhere...(no problem getting either diameter to fit in the brass and...
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    shotgun and roundball

    I wasn't upset at allo and yes, we should write with the novice in mind...you were right. Black powder takes up a lot of room of course and only requires one nitro/felt cushion/sabot and slug (didn't work well) and an opver shot card to take up all the space. I place a solid spacer on top of...
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    shotgun and roundball

    I use the MEc because there is a gage to measure the compression...adjustable too but I just read the gage till I achieve the poundage wanted. It is Magtech brass and they list the length as just under 2.5 inches...BTW I do know how to anneal the brass and have been loading metalics since the...
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    shotgun and roundball

    I'm not using a double. I am using a pump with 18 inch cylinder-bored smooth barrel and rifle sights. the muzzle mikes at .730 but the gun is chambered for 3" mags and I'm using 2.5" brass shells. It is my intention to load 11 gage nitro over powder cards with about 50 pounds of compression...
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    shotgun and roundball

    With appologies, I am searching for anyone's experience loading RB into brass shotshells. I am going to use black powder only. Nothing seems to fit right and I can't get (I feel) good ignition. My loads have been between 80 and 90 grains of goex Fg with sabot slugs (the mould I alread had) and...
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    Williams receiver sights?

    Someone makes a tang extension for such a sight...get it close to your eye. The top mounted sights are a bit too far away. What sort of muzzle loader do you shoot? I can keep a 2 inch groop (10 shots) in a retired garrison rifle with battle apeture sights...I like em
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    ramrod damage

    It's not a joke...I actually did it
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    Barrel run-out

    Douglas barrels have the most run-out that I'm aware of...
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    Cochran Lock

    I remember Willy well...been to his shop and met his wife...I'm not sure he is still living. He was pretty old when I used to camp with him back in the 70's
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    ramrod damage

    It's easy to test...
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    Fire Piston

    for me, it misses the point
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    ramrod damage

    I once took a fiberglass rod and made a knife edge out of it and used it to cut a piece of steel into...nuff said
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    54 cal ball making

    The lead used in the stained glass I'm used to is soft...just remember to cut out the soldered joints as they will have other metals in them
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    ramrod damage

    I have a .54 with a Green River Rifle Works choked barrel from the 1970's. I have always used wooden ramrods and a hard stainless steel bench rod with bore guide at matches (easier on the hands) and It still shoots well...better than I can hold.
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    brain tanning

    I tanned and smoked four or five hides (white-tail deer) and came to the conclusion that if one were to de hair and scrape well and then rinse out and dry and touse that he would have usable leather without adding anything else...the operative word is "usable" though...it's the elbow grease that...
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    Modern steel/Smokeless powder

    what's the point?
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    brain tanning

    buy yer own grater...can't cost more than 2 or 3 dollars
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    brain tanning

    I still have the britches I made back in the mid 70's. Been in the water a number of times and lost that bacony smell but still servicable if I'd lose about 60 pounds.
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    brain tanning

    I did this years ago...A couple of bars of Fells Naptha soap ground up and desolved in enough hot water to melt it and a pint of neet foot oil and you have the cleaned up equivilant...add water to that stuff to make 4 gallons total. Scrape and dehair and submerge with a weight to hold it down...
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