A half inch smoothbore flintlock was the critter getter when we lived in southeast Texas.
Kind of a "do-all" piece, about like the .410's.
https://i.imgur.com/PyhIyeM.jpg
Type: Posts; User: Good Cheer
Forum: Our Town
A half inch smoothbore flintlock was the critter getter when we lived in southeast Texas.
Kind of a "do-all" piece, about like the .410's.
https://i.imgur.com/PyhIyeM.jpg
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
Over breakfast the wife asked me if I'd ever thought about what my life would have been like if I didn't have faith in God and if He hadn't been a part of my life, if He hadn't been taking care of...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
These are amazing moments to be alive and see prophecies come to pass.
Are people chosen to purposes for the time in which they walk the Earth? Beats me. But I have no doubt about this being the end...
Forum: Our Town
We lived in the boonies of Liberty County, Texas for almost thirty years, haven to reptiles and amphibians.
After moving a thousand miles north we've laughed at ourselves for years, that programmed...
Forum: Our Town
North Indiana. Was surprised to see one this morning.
Dry weather here so they may drag up and split.
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
The president of Turkey is still making moves towards putting together an alliance to battle Israel.
Did a net search on the meaning of the name "Erdogan".
There were some interesting though...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Yo JonB.
That a light abrasive could be present was one thought. Another was that a liquid polish with carnauba in it could perhaps be useful in concocting a tumble lube. Hadn't gotten around to...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
Can we proceed with the understanding that the devil is a catalyst in a creative process of separating the slag and dross from the refined?
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
No, we don't generally define a stooge as someone without independent thought who mindlessly does their bosses bidding.
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
Yeah, I already cottoned on to you not having seen it. That's the way scripture is, just keeps growing with time in study.
For context as to what I'm talking about, the devil is unavoidably our...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
Actually I've come to think that Luke 13 is also speaking to the fig tree at the end generation, that the devil shows up and is the dung for the fruitless tree.
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
Originally Posted by Good Cheer View Post
Our living in the fig tree generation seems to be a blind spot for many.
Perhaps it deserve a thread of its own.
I'm pretty sure you've already...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Any final turning and reaming will probably be best done after fire forming.
Tried this just for grins once upon a time.
https://i.imgur.com/RxK8sQw.jpg
No suggestions from me; I'm still learning. I have Unertl mounts on a 25-20 but no experience with other bands.
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
Stearman has been a joy for oh so many years. The interplay between him and J. R. Church was part of what made the old Prophecy In The News program fun to watch.
Well darn. I was going to punch up MVA to look at the mounts and the security software says there's malware in that site.
Forum: Our Town
It's a 45-70 case necked down to use 38-55 / .375H&H type molds. The neck is 9/16" long to keep lots of lube grooves clean. The Lyman #375296 design with a compressed charge of WW760 and CCI250's was...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Had my right eye peeled to remove washboard roughness and scarring and the surface is regrown. One more month until it can get final testing prior to cataract surgery with astigmatism correction. So...
Reading and watching with interest due to planning on a scoped lefthanded muzzleloading target rifle.
Somewhere or the other I've read that the Malcolm scope mounts have a problem or problems so I'm...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7KHUGuVfro&pp=ygUbcHJvcGhlY3kgd2F0Y2hlcnMgdGVuIGtpbmdz
The video linked above contains some thought provoking discussion on who some of the ten horns may be (more...
Forum: Our Town
Most fun was my first wildcat designed for cast.
https://i.imgur.com/J4vHKlo.jpg
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The #450229 in hand had the SWC nose machined to straight to make a plain base wadcutter hollow point like the Webley "man stopper" boolit of the late 1800's. Also the base plug has a couple of extra...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
nswilliams007, by the way and about bullet size, a .451" sized lead bullet will just barely fit in the bore my Investarm .45 half stock rifle. I have a 1858 Remington with the chambers shallow reamed...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |