Find members of the Kentucky Corp of Rifleman whose home range is in Morehead. They can likely point you in the right direction. The NMLRA is a good place to check also.
Bvt
Type: Posts; User: Baron von Trollwhack
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Find members of the Kentucky Corp of Rifleman whose home range is in Morehead. They can likely point you in the right direction. The NMLRA is a good place to check also.
Bvt
Forum: Casting Equipment
A great many years ago, I used a single burner Coleman liquid gas stove and a cast iron pot about the size of the grill top to cast a great many musket balls for several years with reasonable ease...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Ned Roberts, the author of the Muzzleloading Caplock Rifle book of many years ago clearly stated that a cap with sufficient power to reliably ignite the charge would provide the best cap to use for...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Lee makes a 32 wadcutter that works fine and is accurate in my Douglas 32 caplock.
If you want to play in the woods with a bit more throw weight in your rifle. Paper patch or use a thinner patch....
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Only the one that don't know better.
BvT
Forum: Muzzleloading.
For my 32 flint lock squirrel rifle I cut an appropriate length(3") of Kentucky River Cane leaving the cane joint in the middle. When it has dried, I shorten each open end to hold my charge, with...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Most of the scales mentioned will do a great job. Most of the problems with low level charges are operator error.
Some things such as allowing dust to collect on the beam and in the agate...
Forum: Special Projects
I generally do not think much of Harbor Fright but the Mini chop saw is a real gem for shortening cases.
BvT
Forum: Special Projects
Check some of the early VV powder reloading pamphlets when the powder was first sold in the US. There were quite a few wildcats on the Mosin case listed with loading data for the M-N and some of the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
To cut through the non answers, there several North-South Skirmish groups in and around Tidewater Va. Look them up, meet them or talk to them, and someone will likely steer you to BP dealer or...
Believe it or not, you should carefully examine everybody's new molds for burs, dings, alignment, sprue plate function, plate scars on the top of the mould blocks, and similar. Fix problems...
For common calibers in common guns(as in 30-30/Marlin) most die sets work just fine, but when you use custom barrels or chamber work, top end dies are the best choice.
BvT
Forum: Our Town
Kentucky has quite a few conservation agents . I'm in the Bluegrass region, and have talked to many of them. Indiana folks cause a great many problems for them on our northern and western borders,...
Forum: Leverguns
I suppose you could have a Burris Fast Fire mounted with it's base on the front of the 94 action. Burris could tell you if one of their bases fit.
In reality a side mounted rear sight fitted with...
Forum: Leverguns
I have been using the JES rebore to 35-30-30 in a Winchester 94 for a number of years. You can take fired 30-30 cases and neck expand with a 38 special powder through die or equivalent M-die,...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Experienced ML shooters know enough to put the ball puller on their RANGE ROD, not on their loading stick(ramrod).
That is also the reason that most ML accommodating ranges have a notched iron...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Junk the sight. Find something better to fit your needs on the indoor range.
BvT
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Pete ol buddy. You missed a lot of the info before my first post on the topic. You should have started reading at the beginning of the topic and followed what was going on. I think your history rant...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
FWIW my understanding is that WB unloaded his pistols(.36 Colts) in the morning by firing them at targets, then cleaned, inspected and reloaded them to his standards for use during his awake hours,...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Looks like PURE PERSONAL SPECULATION ON YOUR PART about the unfired part.
There are American records of the care with which folks maintained their weapons. Our history tells us that those who...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
[QUOTE=fouronesix;3368758]The "concern" about penetration out of a C&B seems almost irrelevant. The wisdom of relying on a C&B revolver for home self defense is questionable to begin with-...
Forum: Our Town
Maybe that kind of business deal is partly why AMERICA has 94 Million citizens on the welfare? Seems that if nabisco could make cookies at a profit last year, they just wanted to make much more money...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
You need to review lots of information on the use of deadly force by real experts before you latch on to an opinion here about low power C & B use for self preservation.
BvT
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I haven't made any powder either. I have saved that FOXFIRE book for emergency reading though.
BUT it seems to me that if one were to acquire alder saplings of more similarity to the saplings the...
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