Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-16-2011, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,191
Re: PAPER CARTRIGES
Most paper cartridge conicals were a tad undersized from the factory, to compensate for the paper. I have a friend, who collects LeMat's, and he has a LeMat Mold that casts like 5 different types of...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-16-2011, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,667
Re: Why I LOVE BP and BP'ers !!!
Jack,
True that !!! And you can buy, sell, ship all the ML's you want without any of the government fiddle-farts sticking their nose into your hobby room too !!!
:) :) :) :)
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-15-2011, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,667
Why I LOVE BP and BP'ers !!!
This is a thread, for us to express our innermost secrets... Our hidden motivations... Our dark sides...
Why do you like Black Powder? What brought YOU into the fold? The history of it all? The...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-15-2011, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,306
Re: zouave rifle
Thanks for the "Heads Up" SewerDude...
I've a been a hankerin on those fer a powerful long times now... Maybees I jes might a git me one !!!
Sincerely,
ElvinWarrior... aka... David, "EW"
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-15-2011, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,116
Re: calculating black powder loads?
Mountain man method...
Put the ball or lay the conical down in the palm of your hand...
Carefully pour BP onto the ball, or conical, until a nice little cone of powder completely covers the...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-15-2011, 09:14 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,858
Re: DIY Black Powder
I know that the alcohol, or "CIA" method, as sometimes referred to, works well.
There is something however, about, soaking BP in alcohol, and letting the alcohol fumes evaporate off, into a garage...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-15-2011, 08:56 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,191
Re: PAPER CARTRIGES
Guys, Guys, Guys...
Just buy the flash paper from the major pyrotechnical supplies (fireworks supplies) companies, its really cheap, like a $1.60 for a 8" X 9" sheet, or, a "pad" of 20 sheets of...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
04-04-2011, 08:41 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,633
Re: .50 Cal Bear Load Help?
Don't gobble down all the Bear Meat before you head home !!! Salt and smoke some and I will buy a nice bear roast from you and I will give you a good price !!!
Sincerely,
ElvinWarrior... aka......
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Forum: The Hunting & Fishing Forum
04-04-2011, 08:08 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,000
Re: My Little Stove "Homemade"
That is one GREAT Little build up !!!
I'm gunna make me one of THOSE !!!
--- OR ---
You can get a bit ambitious, work up a couple or a few samples, send them off to Dixie, and other...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-31-2011, 01:36 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,403
Re: T/C Hawken Issue
Super-Slippery lubricant... like one with graphite powder in it???
Just my half-penny !!! (I haven't been a member here long enough to work up to a full two (2) cents yet !!!)
:) :) :) :)
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-30-2011, 09:43 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,923
Re: cap and ball revolver
Naw....
Go for the KA-BLEWIE... Get a LeMat. 9 Shot 44 cal cylinder, and a second smooth bore barrel, sized to the 20ga shotgun size... You can clear out old trees on your property with this one...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-30-2011, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,566
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-29-2011, 05:04 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,094
Re: Remington Rolling Block...Spanish?
It's alot easier to identify a car than a gun me-thinks. There were non-firing display guns manufactured even way back when, fakes abound in this arena, tons of faked "old" guns out there.
Ya,...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-29-2011, 04:54 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 722
Re: When observations become historical fact
I too seriously doubt if soldiers regulary "Traded up" their issued pistols. If someone is issued something from an authority of some kind, what that inheritantly means is, they will be required to...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-29-2011, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,566
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-29-2011, 01:43 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,566
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-28-2011, 11:16 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,566
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-28-2011, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,566
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-28-2011, 10:46 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,060
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-28-2011, 10:09 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,510
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-28-2011, 02:54 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,510
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-27-2011, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,510
Home Plating a Pair of Remington Pocket Pistols
Some of you may not be aware of the profussion of inexpensive, and very high quality, home plating kits and suppliers out in the world today, and so, therefore, I decided to publish this article...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-25-2011, 09:34 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,060
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-23-2011, 09:46 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,392
Re: budget BP rifle ?
When I was a kid in the wild lands of the Ohio Farmlands...
I took three lengths of steel galvanized plumbing pipes
I cut one pipe to 16", the pipe that fit over it, to 12", the breech pipe,...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 11:48 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,087
Re: I had no idea ...
Tyc...
Thank you !!! Thank you very much !!! I make custom, and sometimes, one of a kind presentation boxes, by the way. In The Pic, that box, has a lower drawer buit in, and as much space below,...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,508
Re: 1858 remington army target model
Rimington1990,
Did you mention the Star Revolver?
Like this one???
http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x330/ElvinWarrior/RH0460.jpg
Dixie Gun Works, (DGW) out of Tennessee, lists that...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,087
Re: I had no idea ...
TYC,
I agree with you about the cappers, everyone has half a dozen of em, and nearly everyone pinches and mounts the caps by hand, onto the cylinders of the revolvers.
The cappers, do work out...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 05:59 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,389
Re: 1858 remington army grips
Good Luck with that !!! I have a Remington New Army 1858 myself !!! Mine is made by F. LLI. Pietta Company, and I picked it up from Dixie Gun Works, for $195.00. It was not super pricey at all, and...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,858
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 04:59 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,858
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 04:48 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,903
Re: Black powder?
Hey Guys,
Newbie here, not new to BP, not new to guns, just this forum. Been a member of Calguns.net a while now, so, not a total newbie in general....
N.E.... Wayz....
Where I live, In Los...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-22-2011, 03:45 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,858
Re: DIY Black Powder
Dear Polish Shooter,
Where I live, In Los Angeles, CA, the "liberals" have passed so many gun control laws at the State Level, The LA County Level, AND, the LA City Level, than nearly all gun...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-21-2011, 10:40 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,858
Re: DIY Black Powder
Hey guys....
All this chatter about making your own caps and such, had me a wonderin.... You know those plastic, toy, cap gun caps, the plastic cup style caps, that either come in strips or...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
03-21-2011, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,858
Re: DIY Black Powder
Hey Guys, newbie here, BP nut, made my own charcoal many, many times... here's a couple ideas...
I have made my own charcoal at various points. When as a lad, being unable to buy black powder at...
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