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The Campfire / HAPPY BIRTHDAY Keb!!!
« Last post by Webmaster on April 19, 2024, 04:01:58 AM »
YAY for Keb! - another year notched on yer gunstock! Hope you have a "bang up" birthday!
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General Interest / Re: What the heck happened
« Last post by No Powder on April 18, 2024, 08:55:17 PM »
Good idea Kees. I live about 150 yds. away from a Family Dollar store. But it's not that thrifty.
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General Interest / Re: What the heck happened
« Last post by Winter Hawk on April 18, 2024, 08:19:48 PM »
Hit the thrift stores and look for a heavy pan you can put on the kitchen stove (with windows open) or a camp stove, and try melting the dregs that way.  No sense getting a new electric pot and maybe ruining it....
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TMA Postal Shoots / Re: The TMA 2024 Postal Match and the 2024 Postal Fun Shoot
« Last post by Bigsmoke on April 18, 2024, 05:06:09 PM »
Yep I really like Libby, fun shoot twice a year.
 Eureka Montana has the David Thompson days shoot end of the month but I'll miss that one.
Kevin

Never did make it to the Libby RDV.  Oh well...
I got to the Eureka event several times.  The first one I won the shooting event.  A few years later I returned and somehow won the best beard contest.  I bought a Douglas 1 x .54 barrel and had it installed on my Renegade.  That was really a shooter after that.  Like a damn fool, I sold that rifle.   :Doh! :Doh! :Doh!  There used to be a bunch of Canadian guys that would come down for the fun and merriment.  I really liked them.  At the time I had a bunch of BP revolvers and I would outfit myself like Josie Wales, probably had half a dozen pistols in holsters and stuffed into my belt.  We used to have shootouts and I was pretty formidable with all those guns.  One of the Canadians had a "hanging" harness and he always got lynched.  He had the kick and quiver routine down pretty good.
Go to Eureka, Kevin.  Go!!!

John (Bigsmoke)
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Flintlock Long Guns / Re: things I learned this w/e
« Last post by garrettep3 on April 18, 2024, 04:03:29 PM »
100 gr is a really heavy load for a 20 ga. Try somewhere around 75 gr.
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General Interest / Re: What the heck happened
« Last post by No Powder on April 18, 2024, 02:10:23 PM »
Good advice. I don't do the lottery thing anyway. But my wife does. I think I found the problem. I decided to heat the pot again to help remove what's in the bottom of the pot. I think my pot bought the big one. It is not heating up. Has anybody else had their pot quit working in the middle of a melt? I think it makes sense. I bet this stuff would melt if my pot was heating.
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General Interest / Re: What the heck happened
« Last post by Bigsmoke on April 18, 2024, 02:00:19 PM »
I've never had anything like that happen so no idea what the cause could be.

However, Tom, I don't think today is the day for you to buy Lotto tickets.   :lol sign
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General Interest / What the heck happened
« Last post by No Powder on April 18, 2024, 01:36:14 PM »
Decided to cast some balls today using some old lead lines that my friend gave me. Some was 1 1/2" , and a small piece of 4" . Used two pieces of the 1 1/2" and everything was working fine. Decided to try some of the 4" " stuff.  That's when everything went wrong. I was using a Lee pot, and this stuff didn't want to melt and everything in the pot turned into what looked like silver cement. I got most of it dug out, but more in the bottom yet that I don't know if I'll ever get it out. Never had this happen to me before.  [ Invalid Attachment ]
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General Interest / Home brew BP
« Last post by The Miner '49er on April 18, 2024, 12:21:00 PM »
Hey, Rob. It's been over a year since you told us about your home brewing. Are you still making BP, and if so how's it going?
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TMA Postal Shoots / Re: The TMA 2024 Postal Match and the 2024 Postal Fun Shoot
« Last post by KDubs on April 17, 2024, 08:57:48 PM »
Patience nessmuk, there's more coming  :applaud
Kevin
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