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Yes Lee Shaver was who recommended I use steel wool for leading. His reasoning made perfect sense to me having a bluing tank and applying all forms of bluing to my guns, hot caustic, slow rust, cold...

I use Gato Feo too. My blend is as per the formula save for the tallow, I use hamburger fat. I strain it first through a sieve then through cotton T-shirt fabric I use for patches. This removes the...

Joe the reason is most aren't using real black powder, they're using substitute and it's harder to clean out and it's immediately aggressive to brass, like promptly destructive.

To make matters...

Stay away from people who tell you to go talk to a pharmacist like its 1910. Nothing remotely wrong with buying it but at the very least you're going to pay obscene money for a few grams of medical...

Sure. You can push a thick wall heavy barreled Kentucky with a platinum vent liner to 2,100 fps. Those sort of heavy fine grain charges will tear up a steel vent liner very quick like.

My cousin...

There are so many one off test rifles these companies have made for testing that most are not known to have ever existed until they just pop up out of a barn or closet.

With Remington's records...

Separate ignition system. Not a firearm under Federal law.

That's why retailers can ship them directly to your house unless you live in a state who's political systems are rigged by the Feudalist...

That's a cool idea. It would have to be something inert to the powder with a similar density to the powder to not separate or be so fine and light as to not be separated.
First thing that comes to...

Superb glazing. Bill's work is one of a kind and he's gone now so it isn't like we can call him for a copy when a host goes down. So I linked what remains in the archives in the hopes his work is...

I love reading stuff like this.

I was toying with this idea for Sharps rifles. Asking myself why I couldn't Duco black powder in a cylindrical mold and glue it to the base of a ringtail.

The potential danger in 3 component milling with any metallic media is two fold.
First, how far the shot is thrown through the drum. If you build a ball mill 6 feet in diameter and fill it with 3"...

I use 2 paint cans with 3/8" copper tube bolted to the lids to vent outside my grill.
My charring rig is a lightly customized $100 grill with a sheet steel baffle completely covering the cast iron...

This. To put forth the argument that making powder is inconsistent from lot to lot (if you actually try) with your tools is akin to making the argument that reloading ammo at your bench will never...

I bet the 50-90 hangs up on the nose of the hammer.
45-90 tends to do that with 540gr patched ellipticals seated shallow in the case. I'd imagine 50-90 is much more prone to this.

Not saying...

Complicated stuff most don't understand. Lighting, color tones, aperture sizes and of course size of targets.
Our expectations usually far exceed reality and biology.
I can still hit a 24" plate at...

Welcome to the rabbit hole Kenny.

I use Gato Feo too. I use beef tallow I refined from hamburger meat.
It has a lot of gelatin in it so requires refining via melting and cooling, removing the gelatin that settles in the bottom. Once...

Black powder used other methods. Obturation of the base from the sudden thrust of igniting powder (as the bullet rests on said powder) bumps up and seals the joint.

Also various wads are commonly...

And that is why I don't share load data on public ranges.
Start talking about paper patching, animal fat greases, card and felt wads, greased felt wads and you lose them, start talking about drop...

Greasy residue is precisely what I go for with my powder. Feels like face paint, same creamy texture. Makes all the difference in the bore.

Ah yes the infamous "seasoning". Yeah I experienced the same thing way back when I was 18 and muzzleloaders were a barely cared for side thing to get an extra week in the field.

Nice. I can confidently say bagging bambi with a rifle is massively less expensive than bagging bambi with the wife's Mazda.

If Elmer Keith had been a modern guy on a forum....let that sink in. It's why I warn members not to stray away from the Homemade BP thread and especially not outside the ML forum when asking...

Jojoba oil is a whale oil substitute. I use it to oil my rifles. I've used it as patch lube. I set my uncle's back yard on fire because a jojoba oil soaked patch lit up the dry grass. Wasn't fun and...