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General Interest / Re: Tin in your lead
« Last post by LongWalker on January 16, 2026, 11:01:04 PM »
Did you want a safe way?  Because there isn't one. . . which is a bummer, because it would make our supply issues so much easier to resolve. 

About the best you can do is to sell the range lead and buy what you want (or trade the range lead directly for what you want).  There's no safe way to remove the tin/antimony/etc at home. 
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TMA Postal Shoots / Re: Postal Shoot questions
« Last post by Nessmuk on January 16, 2026, 10:54:17 PM »
Yes, Jim, I will mail you targets if you PM me the address.
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TMA Postal Shoots / Re: Postal Shoot questions
« Last post by Jim in Wisconsin on January 16, 2026, 10:18:25 PM »
Thanks, I might have to take you up on that - but I'll work on getting a printer and learning more about this kind of thing. I have sort of resisted all this computer related stuff - I'm fighting a loosing battle and slowly realizing it.
That contest sounds like fun and would give me a reason to mess around with my guns. I have a dirt hill in the back yard and can set up at 25 or 50 yards easy enough.
Jim S.
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TMA Postal Shoots / Re: Postal Shoot questions
« Last post by Winter Hawk on January 16, 2026, 08:49:54 PM »
Jim, I believe Nessmuk was willing to mail print copies of the targets to those folks who can't print them out themselves.  By the same token, I think he would accept getting the shot targets mailed to him although he does disappear into the hinterlands at times during the summer.  The pony express may not find him in time....

Otherwise I will help by mailing them to you and scanning them in after you shoot them and return same to me.

~Kees~
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General Interest / Re: What muzzleloader stuff did you do today?
« Last post by Bigsmoke on January 16, 2026, 08:05:18 PM »
Where'd you go horn shopping, Tom?

Speaking of horns, I worked a bit on my first one in a while today.  I got the horn rough sanded after I devised a dust collector for my belt sander.  I think that is going to really help.  Then I turned a baseplug for it and installed it on the horn.  Geez, I just cannot believe I am so slow now.
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TMA Postal Shoots / Postal Shoot questions
« Last post by Jim in Wisconsin on January 16, 2026, 07:44:39 PM »
I am interested in doing this next spring. Are the targets the same as or enough similar to some NRA targets that could be bought at a sporting goods store? I don't have a printer - although I would get one if needed. I'm not very computer literate and I'm not sure if I would know how to take a picture of the target after I put 5 (I hope) holes in it either.
I know it's sort of early to be talking about this, just wishing spring was here I guess. Thanks
Jim S
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People of the Times / 1/16/1860: A Prussian lens on South Tejas
« Last post by Craig Tx on January 16, 2026, 06:57:47 PM »
On this day in 1860, Adolphus Glaevecke, a long-term observer of life on the Texas-Mexico border, gave the governor of Texas an account of events connected with the so-called Cortina Wars.

Glaevecke, a native of Rostock, Prussia, had come to Texas with three of his brothers in 1836. Nearly all subsequent historians have used his account of the actions of Juan N. Cortina, whose rebellion against border Anglo-Texans is legendary.
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General Interest / Tin in your lead
« Last post by Salty on January 16, 2026, 03:24:32 PM »
Anybody know of a way to remove tin and antimony from range lead?
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General Interest / Re: What muzzleloader stuff did you do today?
« Last post by Salty on January 16, 2026, 03:21:51 PM »
No powder, I think ALL powder horns are a beautiful work of art just like the old timey imperfect ones. That?s what I know.
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General Interest / Re: What muzzleloader stuff did you do today?
« Last post by dmarsh on January 16, 2026, 03:07:21 PM »
Starting work on a tomahawk.  Gathering the supplies now.  Actually, two of them. :bigsmile:
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