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Oxiclean is a peroxide type compound so is a relatively strong oxidizer. It's great to add 1/2tsp into dish pan full of uber greasy dishes - you'll never see or feel cleaner dishes. It's also an...

I too like the through and through shots on caribou and moose using my vintage 1886 and 1895 .45-90's with cast boolits in the 300gr range. Just one shot through the lungs to get them to bleed out...

Good on you using your Griswold dutch oven. I have my grandmothers and two others just like it and all my frying pans are Griswolds. Why would anyone have anything but? I keep mine well seasoned...

Good thread with lots of valuable information. I'm in my 70th year and have been casting bullets for over 40yrs for mostly .45-70, .45-90, .44mag/special and even an original .69cal 1842 Springfield...

I used an axe to cut the end off a 100# Bunker Hill lead ingot once....long ago... never again! That was a lotta work! I still have the brick after 40yrs and have not tried to cut a slice off it...

What I've seen here in Alaska and what might be termed "medical lead" was pure sheet lead removed from the walls of the xray room during a local hospital renovation. It was in something like 4ft...

I've hauled hundreds of pounds of babbitt material, as 100# crates of bars, individual bars of all sorts and as scrap bearing pours from abandoned mines all over Alaska. I have far more than I could...

You can buy citric acid(Vit C)powder by the pound on Amazon.

Winchester 1886's in .45-70 are twisted for the 400gr range bullets, the .45-90's for bullets in the 300gr range. Despite the twist rate, my '86 and '85 high wall, both in .45-90 and of 1887 vintage,...

Bismuth shotshells came along as viable alternates to steel shot, which is not as dense as it should be for waterfowl hunting. The main maker of Bismuth shot didn't last too long but I think someone...

I've been collecting babbitt material from around Alaska for almost 40 yrs and have hundreds of pounds of bars and scrap. I have buckets of scrap that I use to alloy with lead for casting bullets. I...

Thanks everyone. I like that Lee mould, especially the price and the 6-cav. I've always gotten excellent boolits out of my aluminum 400gr .45 Lee mould for the .45-70. Pure lead boolits out of that...

Picked up an unfired Colt SAA in .44 special and would like to make some cast boolits for it. I've casted boolits for 40yrs so am not a newbie. Someone gave me a box of 750fps reloads that look like...

I just put a new Marbles tang sight on a Marlin 1892 .22 levergun. I have vintage Lymans on my vintage Winchester '86 and '85 .45-90's and like them a lot. I do like the windage adjustment on the new...

I've shot 3031 exclusively in my Marlin 1895's and .45-90 Win 86's and 1885 Hi walls for 40yrs.... except for my bear loads that are max H322 and beyond painful to shoot in the light Marlin. I...

To properly season cast iron you need to use a very saturated fat, not oil...of any kind. It won't do it right. Get some suet from a butcher shop - kidney fat, heart fat, mutton fat - something...

I had a brainfart and just had to have a guide gun two years ago. I already have two older 1895's, one of which has hardly been shot if at all. I've never shot it. At $200 it was just too cheap to...

I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to shoot a 500gr boolit out of a Marlin 1895! I'm happy that one friend of mine did though. He shattered the stock and didn't want to mess...

I hunted moose here in Alaska this past fall with my .45-90 High Wall Winchester using 400gr cast boolits. I have the gun shooting into 3" at 200yds which is more than sufficient. Didn't get a shot...

In New Guinea they eventually got the forest people to NOT eat the brains of the people they killed, as was customary, and that eradicated the issue in humans there if I remember correctly.

Small fast bullets are wayyyy over rated and ruin a lot of meat. Nothing like a big slow bullet of a caliber that starts with a "4" or higher. Any bullet from a 45 or larger caliber going at 1000fps...

Depends. My 1849-vintage Springfield mod 1842 smooth bore .69 cal musket with no rear sight will shoot inside of 10" at 100yds with .678" round balls, which excites the hell out of me... plenty good...

Using the 385gr cast bullet it won't matter if you push it at 1000fps or 2500fps, or anywhere in between; it will pass through a pig or deer with a side shot and kill just fine either way. What...

303: That's very interesting; I had not heard of this issue in squirrels. You're correct about the CJ disease. Nothing seems to destroy the mis formed protein, not even incinerating. For more details...

I've used IMR 3031 exclusively for hunting loads - cast and jacketed - in .45-90 and .45-70 Marlins and vintage Winchester '86's for 33 years. Fills the case nicely and can be used for low or high...