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    smooth bores

    Hi, I know the limitations of smooth bores but what is really the case for a smoth bore pistol? The reason I am asking is that I cannot at this stage make my own rifling and I found that stainless steel brake cylinder liners make grat liners (minimum size 1/2 inch, inside) For pistol barrels 6...
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    main spring question

    Try to reheat your spring to red (reshape it then if necessary) quench in water. Now if you apply any pressure on it it will break like glass! Reheat it slowly until the oxide layer on the steel look about light blue. If you reheat too much it will go back to the ductile state and will not act...
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    Which Bullet Lube

    Hi Musketman and Forum: To make pecussion caps you need first to buy from Dixie a punch called "tap o cap" ref: MI0730 price (1996) 26 Us$. You simply cut out with strong sissors some beer or Coke aluminium tins into strips and then punch out holes into them with the magic tool. In this case you...
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    round ball velocities for r/b in springfield

    The "LYMAN Black powder handbook" has ballistic tables at the end, very handy? I Use them to test my home made powders against Geox powder reference. On the Net too, you can download little shareware ballistic programs like "Ballistix" or "Balltraj". I get velocities of 1600ft/s with 63g of...
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    Which Bullet Lube

    I use a mix of copha (hydrogenated coconut oil sold in supermarket) and beeswax. It's quite hot here in the topics so Iuse a high proportion of beeswax. Tial and error. I do mainly patched RB but also minie all in cal 50. Kentucky long rifle and a home brew derringer. I make my perc caps, my...
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