Apricot pit for very dirty brass. Most abrasive companies will give you 1-2# sample pkg, free.
Nutshells fromChristmas will work. My wife keeps the shells for me. Holiday season produces about...
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
Apricot pit for very dirty brass. Most abrasive companies will give you 1-2# sample pkg, free.
Nutshells fromChristmas will work. My wife keeps the shells for me. Holiday season produces about...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I take the barrel out of the stock & clean it it in the shower. Boiling water is overkill.
Judicious use of towels is necessary.
Saltwater sportfishermen clean their gear in the showerstall...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Ran my RCBS one night, outside. Looked at brass before I left for work & found it acceptable so I just turned it off with the switch, leaving cover off.
Came back from work; every squirrel for a...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
There aare a million little tricks -- some handy, some not minimally useful.
I don't mark my ramrod with an empty line. I uses a very shallow notch completely around the circumference, made...
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Thankee.
I understand that the load is for paper, not deer. I'll draw deer outlines on a brown cardboard box.
I hadn't thought about inflicting a non-lethal wound on a game animal. I...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
So, do I patch the ball, layer the shot & then use some kind of overshot wad? Do I reduce the normal charge for the ball?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
How do I load it? I've read about civil war load, but nobody ever explained the loading process.
Can I use this for deer hunting? Seems like if it works in military sitations, it'd be lethal on...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
TC New Englander. Bought it from a guy for $41 (alll I I had in my pocket). His dad had forgotten to clean it at the end of deer season & It looked awful. He & his dad assumed it was ruined with...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Will the powder dispenser on a aDillon 550B hold a full pound of Bullseye?
Out of the country & have no access to my equipment so I can't just try it myself.
tia
Forum: Muzzleloading.
+1
I CANNOT find #0 buckshot & have been trying 2 years.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I'd send it in for $20.
I recently bought a used TC & realized thereafter that somebody before me had bent the hammer. I'm guessing it was Bubba who probably had a 12x tasco on it.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Yeah, I've heard that before. Always orient the patch so the finished side doesn't touch the barrel.
And, I've heard that foolish consitency is the hobgoblin of the little mind.
Remeber to...
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Shooting it may clean up the barrel. At least that good justification for using a lot.
Forum: Leverguns
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
John Wayne would have wanted one.
Forum: Leverguns
Seen pictures. Want one bad. Can't find one.
Anybody seen them for sale?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Yeah, right choice.
Know of a meat packer that found 5,000 pounds of liver, forgotten, in the back of a freezer, ten years old. Absolutely no question it had remained frozen. Sold it as dog...
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What caliber are you gonna cast for him?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
If you have a ball already you might be a ableto fashion a mould from plaster of paris toreproduce our sample. Major PIA. There are internet instructions for doing it with plaster but I've always...
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What's the significance of the 2006 date?
We eat out of date stuff 2-3 times a year. Just had 2005 Kraft Mac & cheese last Saturday.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Just got a barrel back 2 weeks ago. Went from .54 to .62 but I had my barrel rifled.
Cost me $139.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I assume it's the element. Got the cover off but not much sense in p roceeding if I can't replaced the element.
What kind of local store would sell a lead pot? Guy in hardware store laughed at...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Well, after 30 years it quit. Found mfgr on 'net but it appears they don't make them anymore. Think I bought mine at Dixie Gunworks but don't find it now on e caltalog.
Anybody know where I can...
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 |