I want to try this out but I have a few questions:
1) I live in California and don't have willow for charcoal. I have lots of Ponderosa Pine and Oak firewood though. Are these good substitutes?
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Type: Posts; User: Steve s.
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I want to try this out but I have a few questions:
1) I live in California and don't have willow for charcoal. I have lots of Ponderosa Pine and Oak firewood though. Are these good substitutes?
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I have a simple question:
What brands of bullet mold handles are interchangeable? I have a couple of Lee molds and am interested in some Lyman molding blocks without handles. Can I use the Lee...
Why, sounds like a real PITA?!?!
Shagging your tools, cases rolling off the table, lube on your fingers. Fiddling with primers. Sounds like something to do at your bench where you're already set...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
So a .490 mold can drop a .495 ball with too hard a lead alloy? That seems odd after cooling, seems like it would get smaller not larger. I tried tapping one in with a mallet to get it started now...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Okay so I'm a noobie to this boolit casting thing and I've only been muzzleloading for a few months.
I'm wanting to cast round balls for my .50's. I bought some Speer swaged .490 balls and they...
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