Not making any BP right now. Just bought a house up in New Jersey and am working on the move up from Florida. Hit 70 years old in August, the heat down here along with taking care of a 2 1/2 acres...
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
Not making any BP right now. Just bought a house up in New Jersey and am working on the move up from Florida. Hit 70 years old in August, the heat down here along with taking care of a 2 1/2 acres...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Been away for a while, life got in the way. Anyways back when I was making screened powder I got a noticeable increase in burn rate by tumbling the mix, screening and drying the powder then running...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I use a B B gun loaded with some packed sawdust for carpenter bees. It's good to about five feet and works great on the big coconut spiders I sometimes get out in the shop.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Nice conversion, I've built three .50 caliber smoothies, two flint locks and one cap lock. I proofed them with 70 grains of 3F pushing double patched round balls with no problems. Since your's is a...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I've used different alloys for round balls in my .50 calibers with no problem. For target shooting past 50 yds I check their weights. The harder alloy RB's weigh less and have less drop farther out...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've owned and shoot two model 99's since the 80's and have found that this web page has just about all the information about manufacturing dates, armories and backgrounds needed to date both the...
Forum: Military Rifles
Even non matching Arisakas are going up in value so returning them to original will be well worth it in the long run. Took one of my model 99's out to the 100 yd range last week and was a little...
Forum: Military Rifles
Two holes in the receiver signify's the action is a type 38 while one hole means it's a type 99. I agree that the price for Arisaka parts has gotten ridiculous but remember nobody is manufacturing...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I built an Investarms Hawkens kit about ten years ago, bought it from Cabella's. I think it took me about 15 hours to fit, sand and finish the wood and polish the brass furniture. The stock was cut...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Merry Christmas everybody, been away from the thread for two weeks or so while getting my 21 foot center console boat together after being in storage for about three years. Still planning on cooking...
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Cosmic Charlie, I'm a screened powder shooter just because I don't shoot enough to warrant getting all the equipment needed for corned powder and I've produced decent powder. My last batch was with...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
A good source of dextrin is fiber powder from WalMart or a pharmacy. I've been using it for my screened powder and 2% works well. I have found that dextrin works better when added at the start of the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I built an oxalic acid vaporizer wand to treat my bee hives for varroa mites and incorporated a 350 degree temperature cutoff sensor to prevent overheating of the acid which would cause all sorts of...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Use the sassafras bark in the beer, don't let it go to waste.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I remember reading that the rate of burn for powder is dependent on contact between the grains. There needs to be contact but some space is also needed for proper ignition. If the powder is packed...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Vettapilot, you asked "do you guys run your powder granulated by moistening and screening, through grading screens when it dries, or do you only screen grade your pressed powder??"
I'm strictly...
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I'm in Florida with high humidity so static isn't something I worry much about. I would think that a grounded wiper that rubs on the tumbler container would dissipate any static buildup. It might be...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I was thinking about using the rounded copper caps found in plumbing supply and soldering them onto short pieces of copper pipe for tumbling medium. Cut the the middle piece of pipe short enough so...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Seamonkey, you might want to keep using Peppertree for charcoal, it's in the same family as Sumac which has been identified as a source of excellent charcoal and I've used Brazilian Pepper which is...
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Harter66 beat me to it, the CVA Frontier rifle with the 24 inch barrel would work fine, I picked one up a few years ago just because the price was right and it had a browned barrel which I'm a sucker...
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Pick out the flash hole in the nipple with a thin wire they can clog up.
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Well here's my tumbler. It's a different design than most. The DC motor is geared down to where it turns at about 20 RPM at 12 volts and came off dialysis equipment that was getting trashed at work....
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I learned my lesson years ago when I ran an angle grinder next to car battery that had been on a charger for a few hours. Blew the top of the battery clean off, glad I had safety glasses on. I spread...
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Using a glass retort in a microwave oven to cook charcoal would be easy. If I recall there used to be a line of glass cookware called Visions which is still probably found at flea markets and thrift...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Years ago when I was young and dumb I worked on an off shore oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. During one shift I helped a welder install a few hundred feet of railing in an enclosed area. The...
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