Recent content by Diogenes415

If you make your own powder and cast your own bullets then it's extremely cheap to shoot. IMHO all the prep and cleaning that's involved in BP shooting is a pleasurable part of the hobby.

I load 12ga shells I find at the range. Fiocchi and Remington seem to hold up best against BP and Pyrodex... Federal shells melt and shrivel up. When I load 7/8 oz slugs I'll just stuff a card in there on top of the powder and then run the slug down in a pillow ticking patch, like I do with...

IMHO you should bend the tang to uniformly contact the stock inside the recess and then sand down the stock to match the profile of the tang. There may be low areas of the stock where the tang is proud (even if the tang is properly bedded) and if the difference is negligible you can file some...

Thanks for the info PapaG.... that is awesome! Maybe I'll order a couple of different maxi molds when I finally order a round ball mold... after all, I was just using what I had on hand and wondering if I could make it work. Maybe this is a rabbit hole not worth going down. *Edit I just saw...

The mold I'm using has the sprue at the base so there isn't much room to work with for mods as it is. I thought about eventually casting a mold like the RCBS Minie mold but in aluminum once I decide on cavity specs but for now I'm working on a jig to mount on my drill press in which I merely...

I use #11 Rem caps on my Pietta and Uberti Colt and Remington repros. I point, pull the trigger and they fire. Never had a chain fire but then I keep my revolvers dry and don't goop up the works with powder attracting oil/tallow sludge. My reloads are dry, clean and quick... kinda like the old...

When I install breech plugs on new and used (very rare occasions) rifles I've used Permatex copper anti-seize lube... if only because it's all that I had available as a builder of racing motorcycle engines. http://www.permatex.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/09128.jpg

For decades I've shot mostly .50 cal BP rifles (1:66 to 1:28 twists), stick with and learn about one thing inside and out, but recently got a .45 cal to save on lead when just plinking at the range and hey, .45 is a popular BP match caliber anyway, right? ;) I was new to .45 cal and ran out of...

When making paper cartridges for my C&B revolvers I use paper (old phone book pages or tissue paper, the gift wrapping kind) that I nitrated and slightly watered down honey as a glue. When I first started I used cigarette papers but found them to be inadequate because they didn't ignite quick...

The various species of wood that I've experimented with for use in BP are balsa, pine (standard framing 2X4 scraps), maple, poplar, cherry, oak and honey-suckle (I don't have willow readily available so I've yet to use it). They've all made usable powder although not as powerful as the...

Don't be an idiot. Do you really think that there's a liberal (or were you referring to a libertarian?) with an agenda has taken the time infiltrate the ranks of a small local firearms organization just to take it down little by little is a plausible scenario? The fact is that Mike and other...

NOZ wins.

I think he just lives down under.

I just hope that if they show a Remington carbine revolver that the shooter is handling it properly. In both "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and "Lonesome Dove" the shooters were running the risk of losing their fingers.

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