I am not sure what a straight line seater is.Perhaps you might care to elaborate on that one.
As for the false muzzle there was a time years back when my friend was in hospital and an another...
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
I am not sure what a straight line seater is.Perhaps you might care to elaborate on that one.
As for the false muzzle there was a time years back when my friend was in hospital and an another...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Thanks for your words of wisdom thus far ,gents.
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If one thinks of the rifling as a long stretched out thread, cutting the barrel after drilling the pin holes will remove a segment of that...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Guys
There was never any intention of rifling the False muzzle. That train left the station a very long time ago. Ideally if we had that option that is what we would do,but that's not possible.
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
I forgot to mention ,the barrel is already drilled for the pins.
As you say the hard part will be working at the alignment.I reckon I can turn 3 drop in "points", like small centre pop ends...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
G day gents
A muzzle loading shooting friend has a .38 cal Slug gun. He obtained it 40 years ago, did bugger all with it, and now has no idea where the false muzzle for the rifle, is. The barrel...
Hi Eddie,
I have owned my Merit diopter from new - probably around 25 years.
Can't speak for anyone but me but the rubber is dried and hard. However its the same with a fellow shooter who also has...
Forum: Casting Equipment
After seeing quak1's pot I am so impressed I have come up with a new pot.
Thank you quack1.
My wife volunteers at a church run thrift shop and spotted the stainless pot.
I scored a stainless...
Hi Fellas,
It's all completed bar the epoxy gluing in of the brass sheet to the spectacle frame.
You will see by the pic that the sheet is currently held in by some blue tac.
I will not expoxy...
The mate and I got a bit done on the project yesterday but I forgot my phone,so no "on the spot pics"
No worries I will take some pics and post them.
The ended up using a 2.5mm diameter screw...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Hi fellow casters,
Whitesmoke from Australia here. It has been a while since I was here last.
I moved this from the This Old Pot sticky-wrong place -OOOpps!
I have taken into my head to...
I am not making a new diopter, but merely using the existing Merit model. The change is in the method of how the diopter is fixed to my spectacles.
The drilled plate ( pictured) is trial mounted...
I made my own for a while with a the whole lense covered bar the tiny hole.Nowdays I prefer the utility of an adjustable iris. Alternating light conditions change the sight picture and I need to...
Hi guys,
In answer to a previous response, I measured the cup at 21/32".
I have looked all over the bloody place for a similar dimension cup preferably in rubber but all I can locate are...
Hi guys , thanks very much for your responses thus far.
I am not sure that printing is possible with rubber / rubber substitute compound-ie neoprene type material.The attaching of a screw thread...
I have a Merit Optical suction cup mounted diopter which I use on my specs for range muzzleloading shooting.
The rubber suction cup has gone hard in the twenty plus years I have used it. The...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Hi fellow casters,
Whitesmoke from Australia here. It has been a while since I was here last.
I have taken into my head to fabricate a bottom pour pot. I can see the time saving of a bottom pour...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
A lot of the BP shooters will be at at Millmeran for the bi annual rendezvous. That 1st July to 9th July.Also a good place to pick up caps.
Its not too far to slip over to Helidon and buy powder....
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Why not pour some cheap vegetable or olive oil in your round ball storage container.Basically something to keep the atmosphere from dioxidising the lead.
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I am with the "if it ain't broke,don't try and fix it " boys.
My observation has been that the majority of ML shooters have used cotton drill or pillow ticking. Apart from the teflon treated...
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Years back I read somewhere of a shooter finding the correct patch thickness by packing paper between the ball and cloth patch.
If I recall various layers of roll your own cigarette paper where...
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I love the style and elegance of the under hammers but have people tell me( in Australia) that they are not in the "spirit" of the rendezvous style.
How are they seen by rendezvous-ers on your side...
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Thanks guys,
Too late ! I blinked and it was snapped up.
Thinking about it it was too long to get behind the seat of my pickup which is how I transport my rifles.
In fact it is too long for...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I have an option on a Pedersoli Plainsman .38 cal flinter. Unusually, the barrel is plum browned and has a polished and engraved lock with brass trigger guards and double set triggers.
My...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Hi guys,
I am back to shooting black powder consistently after a break of several years. Being retired I can squeeze in 4 practices and 2 different club shoots a month.
What has become apparent...
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 |