Nipples
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Topic: Nipples
Posted By: SelwayPacker
Subject: Nipples
Date Posted: 24 October 2003 at 10:52
| Are Spitfire nipples the best there is for traditional sidelock muzzleloaders? |
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Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 24 October 2003 at 18:01
| Selway,.... I like tha "Hot Shots" better!!.. I have tryed'em both! |
Posted By: SelwayPacker
Date Posted: 27 October 2003 at 03:54
| Thanks rollinb! It's killin' me not being able to hunt or even shoot. It's killin' me I tell ya! I've got to get serious about using my smokepole this year 'cause I may not be hunting 'til that season. Trouble is, my shooting bag mysteriously disappeared last year so I got to get myself re-supplied with the tools of the trade. I got all the components but none of them all important gadgets like a powder measure or a short starter or one of them handy-dandy little worms. Question - I had one of those straight line type cappers but I've been eyeballin' those Ted Cash cappers. What kind do you like? |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 27 October 2003 at 04:22
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Selway,.... I make my own "cappers" form saddle-skirt'n, then I "hot wax'em"!! Do you know exactly what "powder charge" yore rifle likes?? I can make you a powder-measure,.... fact is, PM me yore home address, and I'll send you some "stuff" ta git ya shoot'n!! (please list tha "items" you need) |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 15:10
| Selway,.... How tall are you, and how long are yore arms?? Need this info, for yore haversack!! |
Posted By: waksupi
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 17:19
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I'd suggest the Cash capper. I've used them for years, and keep your caps a bit drier than other methods. I always had caps fall out of the other types. I haven't seen Tedd Cash for years, since we married him off to Barb over twenty five years ago. Don't know if they are still together, but I know Tedd and I were drunk in both Wisconsin and Iowa on the night before the wedding! They got hitched at the Villa Loius Rendezvous in Prairie du Chien, before it turned into a circus. |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 03:01
| Selway,.... I think Tedd Cash makes a quality capper,.... the "in-line" cappers from CVA (I think) are "pure junk",..... and, the "hot-waxed" leather-cappers I make, "fit" somewhers in between!! I've never lost any caps out'a tha ones I make, and they don't "rattle". |
Posted By: SelwayPacker
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 04:32
| Wow! this is going to fit as good as my Whites packers! I like to say I'm 6 feet tall in my cowboy boots (even taller with my Stetson on!), but in my moccasins I'm just a measly 5'9 1/2". Now for my arms... 26" armpit to finger tip or 32 1/2" (or there-abouts) from top of shoulder to finger tip. |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 05:01
| Selway,.... OK!!.. Thanks!! |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 09:48
Selway,.... The "box" is headed yore way!!
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Posted By: SelwayPacker
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 11:37
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I'm gunna be back in business! I'm gettin' giddy already! |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 12:17
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Selway,.... I sent you a .50 cal clean'n jag, I know yore rifle is a .54, but if you "double-patch" it'll work OK. The lube is a "summer-blend", but you can add some un-salted Crisco to it if it's to "hard" (I still prefer "spit" at the shoot'n range). I've run out'a buckskin, so the "horn" ain't gotta shoulder strap. Don't try to use the "caps" in the capper (I removed the "prime'n" in'em, so's not to break any "postal regs"), they are in tha capper so you'll see which way they go. I think the "ball-puller" is a .50 also, but it'll work for "retrieve'n lost patchs" in case thet ever happens. If you have some questions 'bout any'a tha "junk" I sent ya,..... jest let me know!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 15:20
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My "puter" been broke fer a few day's,so I missed somes stuff, But SelwayP, if'n rondo is fixin ta send ya stuff that's greenriver by me! I got a spare wood-n-brass short starter in .54 I could send ya! Works gud fer rb.... pm yer snail-mail I'll surnuff send er out too ya if'n ya need it! |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 16:16
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Tacks,.... I included a short-starter with some'a the "stuff", I sent thet potlicker. What I didn't send him was, a nipple wrench, or a nipple-pick (ain't got any extras). 'Tween tha 2 of us, we'll have Selway ready to shoot his muzzlegun when his ribs heal up!! |
Posted By: SelwayPacker
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 04:15
| Thanks for the offer Tacks! But I think ol' rollinb gots me back on my feet. I remember back when me and my buddy bought our muzzle guns... the salesman was going through the stuff we needed but I passed on the patch worm... didn't think the likelyhood of having to use one was too high. Fact, I gave my buddy a hard time for buying everything the salesman tried to sell him. 'Course I lost a patch up the barrel first time I cleaned it and had to humble myself to call my buddy. Said, "Mind if I come over and grab your worm?" (a feller has phrase his words more carefully these days!) I had a ball puller, but never thought to try that on a patch. |
Posted By: mr mom
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 04:52
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hey : you guys got to change the heading of this post !!!!!!! nipples???? i know what you are talking about , but come on. i still have to look. wishing someone would post some??? ------------- mr mom |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 06:39
Mr Mom,.... LOL, I don't think you'd be too "thrilled" to see a "self-portait" of mine!!  
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Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 07:12
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Selway,.... Them store-clerks WILL try'n sell you all sorts of "gizmos" thet you don't need. I like "accouterments" thet serve "dual purposes" (whenever possible)!! Thet's why I sent you tha "haversack",.... it'll work as a shoot'n bag 'til you git a leather one,.... after thet, it serves real good for it's "intended purpose" (of carry'n ALL the liddle "nessetities" thet you don't want take'n up room in yore shoot'n-bag). PLUS it helps to "balance" things out, to wear a medium weight bag on each side, 'stead'n have'n all tha "weight" on jest one-side!! "Haversacks",.... date back to pre-Revolutionary times, thru tha Civil War,.. and were finally (replaced??) by "back-packs",.... and, I'd be lost without mine!! (I carry my compass in it
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 07:47
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heheheee! mr mom,,just remember,,,us bp fellers I sure nuff got's an extry,carved bone handle nipple pick ta share! |
.I'll introduce myself ta selway here shortly,make'm feel ta home,an not so bashfull, that's the thing about buckskinners,what comes around goes around,ain't seen it fail yet! Might take a bit a time sometimes,but that circle keeps goin round..Posted By: SelwayPacker
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 09:30
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tacks - WAUGH!!! How can a feller say no to that?!?! Thanks! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 11:59
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Posted By: SelwayPacker
Date Posted: 06 November 2003 at 06:02
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rollinb- Got my package! Lil' Selwaypackers was all huddled around me last night as I got everything rigged up for the hunt. Now they all think they need a muzzleloader of their own! Guess I'll have to take them to a rondezvous next summer. The haversack fits jis' right. You do good work. Got the horn filled with Goex ffg; got the capper loaded with size 11's; cut the tickin' into strips; even pre-lubed some patches. Now I've got me a mind to RONDY! ! ! I shorely do appreciate your kindness. Like I always says, "Ol rollinb is a good man to knowed"! |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 06 November 2003 at 09:20
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Selway,.... Reckon I better tell you this now, 'fore somebuddy else does,..... it ain't too late, to git them "liddle-Selwaypackers" some muzzleloaders of ther own. HA! HA! HA! I'm glad tha "haversack" fit's ya!!.... (the powder-measure" is 90 grs. "by volume" which should be good for a hunt'n-load), if you git an adjustable powder-measure, you can do some "tweek'n" for the "MOST ACCURATE" load in yore riflegun!! |
Posted By: SelwayPacker
Date Posted: 06 November 2003 at 10:30
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'Bout time I posted a pic of myself. This is me gettin' ready to RONDY! This ol' tool shoots center, she do... when game's afoot I'll shine in any kind of crowd... WAUGH!!! Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 07 November 2003 at 02:55
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Selway,.... Looks like yore gonna "fit" right in with the rest of us. Don't worry 'bout "only" have'n 5 "flies" buz'n 'round ya,.... we have "extras" in camp to loan "pilgrims",.... jest stop by and check with me FIRST tho,..... I won't give you none, thet'er ear-marked fer "targits"!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07 November 2003 at 11:15
heck,,I figgured them was "skeeters". Up here in Minn skeeters skewer the flys on the wing, then take'm back to the nest ta feed their young. Toughest part is in the spring before the rut when rouge bachlor's congregate! I heard the ridgepole of an A frame crack one night when 3 roosted at the same tyme! Luckily the sound startled'em an they flew off. We fixed the pole with just a few cinch knot's and only needed 2 camp guards after that,,only lost one dog the whole weekend,it was a schnouser/pom cross,poor feller,, it wasn't his fault bein so small an all.
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Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 07 November 2003 at 23:10
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i cant post no more for a while computer is brke or somting keyboard dont work right either please let others know if they ask why i aint postn hope i can at least pot this message |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 08 November 2003 at 04:24
| Well everthin's "work'n proper" this morn'n!!!!..... My wife 'bout freaked last night,.. thought we had a real bad "virus" in our 'puter, or sumpthin. Danged thing was sure act'n "WEIRD"!!!!!! |
Posted By: rollingb
Date Posted: 10 November 2003 at 03:57
| Selway,.... How's them ribs of yore's "mend'n"?? We need an up-date!! |