Recent content by Malachi Leviticus Blue

While it obviously would be possible for a .50 caliber muzzleloader to be lethal to a whitetail deer using 40 grains of Black Powder, I can't imagine trying to argue that it is an ethical load for hunting purposes. I've passed up plenty of shots when I wasn't certain I'd have a clean kill that...

Fine enough to shoot target loads if that's all your shooting at, but I prefer to target shoot my hunting rifles with the same load I hunt with for familiarity. Then again, I'm not shooting dozens of rounds every weekend with it either.

I wouldn't waste my time with mouse fart loads, but you could always start as low as you want and work up from there if you wanted to. Just might be cleaning out a few squibs before you get anywhere.

Those look just like my "Zhears" They are pretty handy, whatever they are.

I use a pair of "scissors" called Zhears that are heavy duty and serrated. They will cut through some stuff

I would start at 80 grains of BP with whatever projectile you fancy and move up from there until maximum accuracy is achieved. If by chance 80 grains was the best, I'd try reducing the load a bit to see if accuracy improves.

All CVA really had to do with ASM was they imported some of their revolvers and put their name on them just like dozens of other importers.

CVA, like so many companies got bought out. BPI now owns the CVA brand and it is not that same company it was at all back in the 20th century. no comparison to the two really.

Most of the reproduction C&B revolvers are a project gun to some extent. They are inexpensive so there are typically some "rough edges" to be smoothed out (figuratively, or literally) and several variables are the shooters to set as they see fit. If you don't want a project you can always send...

That there is some good advice

Patched balls are not the norm with C&B revolvers but there are those who have done it and even some that prefer it albeit the minority for sure

I'm lucky enough to have scored a 1979 Pedersoli 12 ish guage double and a 1971 Spanish made 20 guage marked <AMP> They both point great in my opinion and make rabbit hunting on a sunny, snow covered January in Michigan pure joy. The Pedersoli is definitely finished nicer. That said, a 19th...

Got me droolin' with that percussion SxS shotgun

Except that most the bison were killed by those other factors before the large scale hunting even started, and those other factors kept on killing them right along with the hunters. So the other factors were a larger impact on decimating the herds than hunting was. Did hunting speed things up...

Of course large scale hunting didn't help, but it's already been noted that half the bison population died off before that hunting even started, yet so many foks don't want to place the blame on those same forces that took the herd from 100% to 50% and kept on taking their toll down to about 1%