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    Loading Blocks for patched round balls

    I buy flat paddle bits oversize and grind down to size a little bit at a time on both edges and try with scraps until it holds a patched ball. Any hardwood will do. I used to compete in a competition that required 12 shots +2 for sighters. That 14 round loading block now amost qualifies as a...
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    T/C Bore Butter?

    My only complaint is how runny it gets when it gets warm. Otherwise it has worked good enough for me for 40 years that I haven't bothered exploring alternatives until recently, now that I am retired.
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    Musket caps on a percussion rifle?

    I have found with several percussion guns that when musket caps were used, the hammer was not centered over the nipple and one side of the hammer cavity pinched against the side of the cap enough so that when the hammer fell it was slowed up enough so the cap did not fire. Tweaking the hammer...
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    Velocity testing part one B and part two: Fg comparison, and wad testing

    Nice info. I'm playing with some turkey loads for my Pedersoli sxs 10 gauge, also. What is your setup? I have a chrony but have never used it with a shotgun. How far away do you put your chrony, do you use a blast shield?
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    Best way to Remove old Sticky Bullet Lube

    I've been using Lyman Blackpowder Gold lube for home cast maxiballs. It was designed for blackpowder cartridge loading, but is working well for me muzzleloading. I melt it in a pan of standing bullets and use a tightish fitting short tube to cut out the individual bullets after the lube has...
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    Acquiring scrap lead for casting - current state of affairs

    Back before dentists switched to digital xray machines, xray film came wrapped in soft lead foil. My dentist saved it to send to a recycler, but they charged money to take it off his hands. When he found out I could use it for bullet casting, he started giving it to me for free. Also had a...
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    CVA Mountain Rifle... salvageable?

    Bobby Hoyt will bore out the barrel for a larger caliber. He bored a badly rusted .54 out to .58 for me. Check with him to see if he can deal with a CVA breech plug. Bobby Hoyt phone number 717-642-6696 Robert A. Hoyt 2379 Mount Hope Road Fairfield, PA 17320
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    45 cal PRB for mule deer.

    I've killed 4 mulies with both .44 and .54 PRB. All have been longer shots in the 80-100 yard range. All were pass throughs and one shot kills, mainly both lungs, and most ran over 100 yds. before dying, go figure. With one I shot with the .54 at 90 yds. or so, the ball actually left a furrow on...
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    Fire Danger?

    I almost started a fire pronghorn hunting several years ago with my flintlock. I was shooting a PRB with bore butter lube. The patch landed in tall dry grass and was starting to throw off a goodly amount of smoke before I saw it and stomped it out. First time in 35 years of shooting...
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    Colorado Leftover

    I draw an either sex elk ML tag in the unit I hunt in Colorado 3 ot of 4 years on average. My backup on the years I don't draw or don't connect with an elk is a 5th season leftover cow tag in the deep snow with a suppository gun (known as grocery shopping around here). I draw a muley tag every...
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    .54 Renegade

    I bought my first Renegade some 40 years ago. Back then when the bore was new and shiny, using home cast maxi-balls (440 grs. as cast), 105 grs. Pyrodex RS, TC lube (the brown stuff they sold then), the rifle would shoot 5 shot cloverleaf groups at 50 yards on a regular basis. This was and still...
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    Colorado Muzzleloader Projectile Conundrum

    Several years ago Colorado changed when one can use a roundball or conical for big game hunting. 40-50 caliber roundballs in the past were acceptable for deer and Pronghorn. My sidehammer caplock shoots a .433 roundball weighing about 120 grs. Worked perfectly on a forkhorn Muley buck 6 years or...
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    Another which bullet to cast for TC 1:48 twist question

    I started using the TC maxiball in my .54 Renegade about 1981. I used store bought at first but did not get great accuracy (good enough for hunting, though). I weighed some and discovered plus or minus 5 grain variations in weight. I started casting my own then and with the better consistency...
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    .54 Caliber T/C Hawken Question

    Maxiballs have always given me good accuracy, especially those I cast myself. 39 years ago when my Renegade was new, it was not uncommon to shoot 5 shot cloverleaf groups at 50 yards off the bench. They performed well on elk and deer. The maxihunters I tried did not expand any more than the...
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    So what is the big difference between using actual BP and pellets?

    Several comments. Pellets are not allowed in Colorado during ML season because the only way a ML season was allowed in Colorado in the first place was to keep it as primitive as possible (at that time) to mollify modern rifle hunters who were opposed ML hunters getting to hunt before them in the...
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    Renovating a Lost & Found Hawken

    I'd love to post some photos, but I am not enough computer savvy to figure it out myself without brain damage. Perhaps someone could point me towards a tutorial. Boring out to .58 has a certain appeal since bigger is always better for elk, but can Mr. Hoyt do a twist rate to stabilise a conical...
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    Renovating a Lost & Found Hawken

    A brief story first. During the 2016 Muzzle Loading big game season here in Colorado, one of my sons leaned his TC Hawken up against a tree during a rest break while hunting by himself and walked away from it. By the time he realized what he had done, he only had a general idea where it was...
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    DuraCoat

    No not shiny, between flat and gloss. I just meant that it appears very smooth and even when applied properly. As a point of interest, a hunting buddy saw my son and I walking across a clearcut in the sun one season. My son's blued Renegade and my traditional browned barrel both reflected...
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    Bore Out TC Breech Plug?

    Thanks for the input guys. The TC system has always worked OK, it just looks like there is potential to make it better. I did switch to musket nipples and caps years ago for hunting and got much more dependable ignition. Also switched to real black powder about the same time. CCI makes a...
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