I'm enjoying this hobby more than I ever could have imagined.
Type: Posts; User: mmb617
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I'm enjoying this hobby more than I ever could have imagined.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I had a batch ready for granulation today so I got to try out the modified grain mill with the belt between the rollers for the first time. All I can say is wow! So much easier. Before I had to...
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When I first started making my own powder a little over two years ago I read this entire thread over the course of a couple weeks. So much good information. Recently I remembered reading a post where...
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When I first started making my own corned powder I was having problems pouring it, so I tried adding a little graphite. It certainly didn't help and I thought it made the powder a little slower to...
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I started out using cedar fence pickets I bought at Home Depot, but then a friend who is the manager of a building supplies warehouse told me he gets lots of cedar cutoffs that are normally scrapped....
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When I want to post a video to a forum I first upload it to YouTube and then link from there. For example my son shooting his new gun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tV_J_cFo6Y&ab_channel=mmb617...
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I'm probably just lazy but it seems like I'm doing less work on my ingredients than most of you.
I break up my charcoal by hand into chunks that will fit in my HF ball mill and run 4-6 hrs or so...
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Exactly the same here. I did what most of us probably do and started out making pucks that were too thick and really hard to break up. Now the 5 pucks at a time in the 3 inch die is perfect.
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I've been using .45 caliber FMJ bullets and they haven't shown any noticeable wear yet. I started with lead balls and they had noticeable wear after only a couple uses.
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My experiences have been similar to yours.
I'm also using the Woody's die and ordered extra discs as 5 pucks makes them just the right thickness.
My HF 12 ton press story has been the...
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In talking about the ceramic burr coffee grinders I'm guessing the hand cranked ones mentioned are something like this:
309020
I started with that and the oblong hole for the handle wallowed...
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I'm still reading and admiring the dedication of those who are always trying to make some part of the process better.
I don't have that kind of desire to perfect my product. After some stumbling...
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Your digital scale is probably the same or similar to the one I have, and I've also been impressed with how good it is for the price. I use it for my modern cartridge reloading since it weighs down...
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There are those who think 45 ACP will eventually all go to the small primer cases. Whether that's true I can't say.
I started out using lead round balls as media and noticed significant erosion...
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Great minds think alike as I have the exact same setup, 3" Woody's dies, 12 ton press and press 5 pucks at a time. I weigh out 22-23 grams of dampened meal to spoon into each layer in the puck die...
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That makes a lot of sense. I'll have to try it. Often someone makes a suggestion that after hearing it seems so obvious you wonder why you didn't think of it yourself.
At one time I was filling my...
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No they are Traditions flintlock rifles. I would guess that their preference for the finer powder is related to their patent breech design and the way fouling accumulates perhaps blocking all but the...
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I have a new project for myself. I want to increase my 4f percentage, decrease my 3f percentage and hopefully not significantly increase my fines percentage. With where I have my mill and grinder set...
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I bought those screens on Amazon and they are really nicely made stainless steel, but they were also almost $50 each.
I shake the stack on the modified brass tumbler in the picture and it makes...
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I also saw varying information on what screens correspond to what grain size. This is my screen stack which appears to make my interpretation of 2f, 3f and 4f grains be a little larger than yours. In...
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I take it you are considering anything smaller than 3f as fines? You're not saving any 4f? I'm kind of the opposite as I don't want anything bigger than 3f, but will take all the 4f I can get. So I...
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That's a good question and I'd also like to hear how others pile the burn wood.
I'm not using a burn barrel but instead placing my one gallon paint can on one of those round charcoal grills. If I...
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I have the Woody's puck die in 3" with 2 extra spacers. It works great and I can't see myself ever wearing it out or breaking it.
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That's what I do with one of my rifles that has a loose wedge. It's easy and you can't see that little piece of paper when the rifle is assembled unless you looked really close. I don't want to...
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I started making corned powder and that's all I've ever made. Maybe I have more time on my hands than some of you but I just don't think it takes that long once you get a system in place. I haven't...
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BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
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