bentaz wrote:Oldbloke wrote:Here it is.
Did the old bastard cry when he had to hand it over?
sungazer wrote:Hey OB are you going out to Seymore on Sunday to tey it out and get all the tips from the experts. I know one of the guys other than Noisy and he will tell you history you never knew and never wanted to know. Sorry I tune out short attention span.
sungazer wrote:Mate you have to put 5 mins aside for yourself to get an oily rag and caress that gun just a little. It might Rust
sungazer wrote:Bloody cold out Seymour way today. You should have a lot of fun with it OB but dont bank on it for the invasion of the zombies. I think even at zombie pace you would be overrun between loadings
bigpete wrote:That's why they carried a pistol, a tomahawk,and a long knife
Noisydad wrote:Wet lube brew: 1 1/2 cups water, 60ml cutting oil, 30 ml dish washing liquid. Soak the patches, squeeze them out a little and use quite damp or almost wet. Every shot wipes out the barrel and the 60th shot is as easy to load as the first.
Noisydad wrote:That lube brew uses the oil (yes soluble oil as used on machine tools) and dish liquid or liquid soap as supplied. With every grease type lube I’ve used on patches the most shots I’ve got before loading got hard was about 5. Wet lubes make PRB muzzle loading so much easier- they let you concentrate on the shot and not have to worry wether you’re gunna get the ball all the way down.