Well I like to look at things very thoroughly and do a lot of checks before I live fire a 185 year old rifle. I actually sent bore castings and patches to James Tanner at ballmould.com in England...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:25 PM
Micky Duck I cringed at the description funky ball as that mould was made one Saturday morning on a machine made to turn commutators using measurements taken with a steel rule and no gun present so...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:23 PM
So after methodically working through the safety checks and deciding on loads and hard cards and wads and patches I started some live fire testing. The procedure is clean the nipples with a cap...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:20 PM
How long do you have, my 450x3.25"bpe took 20 years of trying with all sorts of bp and projectiles. It only regulated with a nitro for black load from G Wright's book Shooting the British double...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:19 PM
The rifle came in a period correct travel case with two different belted ball moulds and a set of 13 gauge shotgun barrels that fit the same frame and locks ( but that's another story ). One of...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:18 PM
Point of order. The Tonga eruption in 2022 threw 58,000 Olympic swimming pools of water into the atmosphere, which is highly unusual for an erption. Also unusual is that NASA scientists say it will...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 10:50 AM
well,I suggest you manmade climate changers and others who are happy to follow the narrative and surrender critical thought Best get the repeats on ya valium script and hang on to ya hats coz I...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 10:48 AM
Greta Thunberg will save us.
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:11 AM
That and weigh the empty cases, one might be thicker somewhere giving less capacity? Can't have been a major overcharge as the brass or rifle didn't let go, but do not shoot it until its been...
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:06 AM
You haven't trip with a loop of string around something solid? Loop it over the cocking piece, pull and turn. Kinda embarrassing when you work out how simple it is haha.
Liked On: 29-07-2023, 01:03 AM
One tiny example: Somewhere in youtube land a couple of months ago I watched an article where the BBC weather presenter was talking up the apocalypse, pointing to all the 'extreme' temperatures all...
Liked On: 28-07-2023, 09:51 PM
Tahr.. I am not satisfied that the numbers of fires, the numbers of tornados, the numbers of natural disasters, the numbers of deaths from any or all has at all increased. I suggest you read...
Liked On: 28-07-2023, 09:49 PM
If you don’t go along with the current narrative or have a different view you get shut down for being a conspiracy theorist. It’s their only defence because they can’t prove that their theory is...
Liked On: 28-07-2023, 09:46 PM
You cannot change it. You can only cost the lives of those on hospital waiting lists, provide us with a poorer standard of education, provide a sop to those who think that batteries create less of...
Liked On: 28-07-2023, 09:46 PM
Teaching a population how to think instead of what to think would probably help as well
Liked On: 28-07-2023, 09:41 PM