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    Windex Cleans "right now"

    blackpowder fouling is not acidic--a common confusion. It is highly basic. This is easily confirmed with a litmus paper test of the first water-wipe fouling patch. It generally reads pH of 11 - 12.0, due the presence of pitassium carbonate, potassium hydroxide and especially potassium...
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    Lyman Great Plains Rifle

    What's a 'snail'?
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    Mounting a Flint

    A non-traditional and perhaps temporary substitute to keep in mind is sheet rubber. I have, as a temporary expedient, used wraps cut from tire inner tube, rubber patch material and red 1/16" gasket rubber. They grip well and tighten securely. The security is further improved by using rubber...
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    Gun Powder "substitutes"

    What we really need in all this rumor-mongering is for an industrial chemist or toxicologist to weigh in and set the issue straight with some authority. I possess neither of these qualifications but I might as well add a couple of observations-- Although dicyanamide has two cyanide groups...
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    Perhaps an odd cleaning question.

    Sorry to offend your prejudices. Deedub
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    Perhaps an odd cleaning question.

    A minor clarification to your post--animal fats and vegetative oils have only a minor ability to remove fouling salts that is barely better than petroleum-derived oils, and that is due to a mild saponification reaction upon encountering the caustic basic pH of the fouling. Although mild, this...
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    Jerky

    Rancidity is caused by oxidation of fats upon exposure to air. It is not a bacterial or fungal rotting. It can be prevented by packing jerky or other meats containing some fat in an air-tight container without a lot of excess room around it. Indians used to pack pemmican in large blocks into...
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    source for pure lead

    Ask your dentist!! I am a practicing dentist and for the last 25 years I have kept myself and a couple of friends adequately supplied with pure lead for our casting needs in the form of waste lead foil from intraoral X-rays. Every small X-ray film packet contains a piece of thin lead foil...
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    Shot Loads for Fowlers

    Results of my patterning experiments (long and 'windy') My favorite flintlock firearm for upland birds is the Pedersoli Mortimer 12ga. fowling piece. I use it for turkey and to a lesser extent for pheasant and ducks. After considerable testing and patterning, I finally worked up a good...
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