Great display and pictures of it. Thanks for allowing the rest of us to have a look.

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Don't know why I can't rotate these two pics so just turn your phone upside down 
Kevin

The core goal of the TMA has always been the sentence at the top of every page ...

The TMA is dedicated to preserving the rich and fascinating heritage of the traditional muzzleloading firearms of early America.

For more than a few reasons, TMA forum participation has dwindled over more than a few years.

"Ya can lead a horse to water but ya can't make it drink."

We all at the TMA officer level have done a buncha things over the last few or more years to encourage participation in our organization.  IMHO none have been effective at bringing in new forum registrants let alone contributing members.  This may be due to other like minded forums that have a longer established membership, and that the TMA was more of a physical "localized" get-together organization that lost some or most of that local group.  I dunno exactly.

Add to this the continuing trend of social media leaving forums for linear "fast food" media such as Facebook, Instagram, Tic Tok, and the like.

What we have now is a TMA club of sorts where the forum is more of a loose gathering of like-minded folks sitting around a campfire and chatting.  Not a thing wrong with that.

What it takes to keep this virtual campfire going is the website forum server space and domain name.

What next, you say?

A long time ago I visited Warren Manufacturing in Arkansas.  One of their products was cast round ball.  I guess they used a casting machine and then they tumbled the ball.  I think graphite was added to the mix at some point as well.  The last man to leave the plant put the ball in a series of tumblers and it was tumbled overnight.  Then they would package them the next morning.  IIRC, it made for a good looking ball.  Problem was with consistency.  In a box of 20 large diameter (.678 to .715") there were probably 4 or 5 different diameters.  In my sporting rifles they shot OK, but I finally decided to cast my own for a tighter control of the output.  I used the brass moulds from England.  Those were great.

I seem to have pretty good success with Lee molds too. But I will tumble those until there is a little dimple where the sprue was. Takes about an hour and I load that little dimple up.

I've done Exhaustive testing with Lee cast balls - loading sprue cutoff up and tumbling the balls till there is no clue where the sprue was in the first place.  None matter for consistent accuracy, so I gave the tumbling up (though darn if tumbling didn't seem like the right thing to do).