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• Posted in thread: I'm interested in getting a flintlock musket/shotgun in Canada on 01/17/2012 at 2:08PM
  Oops, I misunderstood. I thought you were asking about wads for shot loads. Please excuse the brain
  fart.I've never shot a round ball in this gun. I would probably look for a ball 0.600-0.605 in diame...

• Posted in thread: I'm interested in getting a flintlock musket/shotgun in Canada on 01/17/2012 at 11:13AM
  Blackdragon, I've been pressing my own wads out of crumpled-up aluminum foil. I imagine you could make a
  similar die using metal tubing - for instance, onlinemetals.com sells brass tubing which is 0.7...

• Posted in thread: I'm interested in getting a flintlock musket/shotgun in Canada on 01/16/2012 at 8:52PM
  I was asking about muskets, not rifles. muskets have smoothbores, rifles have rifled bores.Blackdragon,
  about 15 years ago I bought a .54 flintlock Lyman Trade Rifle and a local gunsmith reamed it out...

• Posted in thread: Building a fallout shelter on 01/13/2012 at 2:53PM
  Here's an Office of Civil Defense (OCD) family fallout shelter plan from 1966 - the good ol' days
  :rolleyes:

• Posted in thread: Home Weather Stations on 01/10/2012 at 8:54AM
  You're on the right track - the Davis 6250 has a barometer! Looks like a good unit.

• Posted in thread: Home Weather Stations on 01/09/2012 at 3:50PM
  One of my CO's from "way back then" told me that the Navy had published an excellent study on Single
  Station Analysis. I think I located that publication online - HathiTrust Digital Library - Single s...

• Posted in thread: Home Weather Stations on 01/09/2012 at 12:08PM
  Interesting topic.... to me, at least, I spent several years working Meteorology in the USAF. I'm not
  sure that this field would be immediately useful in a personal survival scenario.Perhaps the abili...

• Posted in thread: antibiotics stash for shtf on 01/09/2012 at 8:34AM
  You amaze me, VikingDad. Also, you all should know that different antibiotics work on different kinds of
  bacteria. There are Gram negative and gram positive....cocci and rods. Some antibiotics are bro...

• Posted in thread: antibiotics stash for shtf on 01/08/2012 at 10:31AM
  Check out this Tetracycline from Calvetsupply -Antibiotics - Tetracycline Hydrochloride soluble powder -
  6.4 oz. packetThe standard treatment is one gram per day, for ten days - and this "five dollar"...

• Posted in thread: Ballistics on New Years Eve......... on 01/04/2012 at 5:51PM
  Gee, we thought you knew- all bullets are connected to the cartridge case by a fine, very strong wire,
  made of intelligentsium. When fired, the wire stretches out, bridging from the bullet back to the...