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States with traditional blackpowder seasons

woodsdog2 said:
I recommend IMR’s “White Hots” a little cleaner burning thus less fouling and hold the same zero for me as my triple 7’s did. Clean up is a snap with hornady’s solvent. A little goes a long way too. However I shoot inlines. TC Impact and one of their first inlines’s a Thunderhawk Shadow. Both like 100 grains or two pellets (50gr each) pushing a 240 gr. Hornady XTP .45 cal bullet with a green sabot. These bullets mushroom handsomely and drop everything they hit like a pole axe.
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The white hots just don't like the flinters, although you could prime the charge with a couple grains of 4F then the white hot pellet but I don't shoot pellets out of any of my sidelock rifles, I like that I can work up a load to the grain
 
woodsdog2 said:
I recommend IMR’s “White Hots” a little cleaner burning thus less fouling and hold the same zero for me as my triple 7’s did. Clean up is a snap with hornady’s solvent. A little goes a long way too. However I shoot inlines. TC Impact and one of their first inlines’s a Thunderhawk Shadow. Both like 100 grains or two pellets (50gr each) pushing a 240 gr. Hornady XTP .45 cal bullet with a green sabot. These bullets mushroom handsomely and drop everything they hit like a pole axe.
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I really like the Hornady PA Conical, the thing is just a hammer, I shoot it out of all my 50 cals both inline and traditional. I wish they made them in 54 as well. My go to inline is a knight MK58 it's nothing special but it shoots well.
 
gcr0003 said:
What for grease after cleaning the gun?
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+2 with the TC Bore Butter I’ve had one yellow and one Green tube for decades. When you put a pea size in a patch and start working it n and warming it up it really goes a long way. What’s great about the modern inlines is you can remove the breech plug and clean from the breach out. I use the hornady solvent to clean everything including the breech plug etc and then wipe dry and then coat the barrel with the bore butter for storage. When iIm ready to hunt I heat up the barrel a bit with a hair dryer or put it next to the wood stove it makes the butter liquify and then I swab the barrel dry with dry patches. Usually takes about three or four. Then I load(but not near the wood stove)!!!!
 
The Hornady Solvent technically is a powder and fouling cleaner AND a lubricant so some use it for everything but I’ve always used the bore butter as a storage lube and protectant and wipe the exterior of the ML down with it too. Plus I like the smell of it. It has a subtle pine smell. No the deer don’t seem to be bothered by it from my experience. You want to stay away from petroleum based cleaners like you would use for regular or smokeless powder firearms.
 
Picked up a TC Renegade the other day. I have a Traditions PA Pellet, but wanted something a bit nicer.

Didn't get to hunt at all this year, and haven't gotten a deer with a flintlock yet, so I might put more time into it this year,
 
TooBigToFit said:
Picked up a TC Renegade the other day. I have a Traditions PA Pellet, but wanted something a bit nicer.

Didn't get to hunt at all this year, and haven't gotten a deer with a flintlock yet, so I might put more time into it this year,
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The renegades are shooters, I have a .54 cal renegade! Work up a load for it, and she'll eat. The TC always had tighter tolerances than others, much better the The pa pellet. You can put a little time in the traditions to tighten it up and finding a load it really likes but those renegades are well made rifles and easy to work with in my experience.
Where about in swpa are you??
 
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To add a furthering of the rabbit hole, here's a video (there's many other) on how to make, cut and store homemade bullet patches. For lube, my plan is to use Snoseal since I use it for everything else.
 
ThePennsylvanian said:
Ok, I recommend NOT using cut flints, only get hand knapped flints. Cut flints dig heavily into Frizzell, the don't stay sharp long, and you can't really knap a good edge back onto them.....
I know you don't understand what I mean yet, but trust me and look for hand knapped flints!!!
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That traditions pa pellet rifle is a flinter right?
 
ThePennsylvanian said:
The renegades are shooters, I have a .54 cal renegade! Work up a load for it, and she'll eat. The TC always had tighter tolerances than others, much better the The pa pellet. You can put a little time in the traditions to tighten it up and finding a load it really likes but those renegades are well made rifles and easy to work with in my experience.
Where about in swpa are you??
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Moved up near Moraine state park.

Just picked up a Lyman frizzen. The one that came on the Renegade is destroying all the English and French flints I've got. I'll just need to find my file and fit it in.
 
I got re-bit by the muzzleloader bug this fall which naturally meant I had to get back into leatherworking to go with said sidelocks. This in turn led me to look at making my own patches.

Today, I found a recipe for fix’n wax (traditional sloseal) so I naturally had to make it. This in turn will be used to prelube the homemade patches and whatever else I come up with.


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Fix’n wax works great and was able to quickly lube 24 patches on a precut strip.
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In today's episode of "Don't do what I did...but it worked".

All my powder is old and my AP Gold 2F was giving me bad lock times so yesterday I decided to switch to 777 3F that was also old but appeared to be in much better condition. I've never shot 3F out of this rifle and made an educated guess on a new load for it. I also decided to test out my new homemade patches using a cotton swatch I bought and the fix'n wax I made. In short, I went hunting with an unproven loading and limited myself to 20y if I did see anything (I didn't).

At the end of the hunt, I took aim at a lichen on a tree at 25y and pulled the trigger. The lock time was instantaneous and the lichen disappeared in the bullet hole. I reloaded, aimed at the the bullet hole and hit 1" high right so apparently, my educated guess on the load worked, my patches work and are accurate and once I test this in the flintlock, may have finally found my single powder for everything.
 
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