Chuck's Picture Page
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Welcome to Chuck's Picture Page.  Here will be posted pictures of interest . . . (to me anyway) . . . from my assortment of  hobbies and/or links of interest for hunting, fishing, scuba diving, muzzleloading, and whatever other fun pastime I can come up with.  If you have a suggestion, give me a buzz.

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This is my Savage ML10-II muzzleloader with its A1 Optic 3-12x50 scope. Soon I will receive a Pac-Nor.40 cal barrel for it so I can use it sabotless!
You'd think that scope was kinda strong for a muzzy, but using 5 - 6 power for hunting and 12x on the bench sure is nice. Bright sight picture makes it easy to identify bucks in early morning and late evening light. So far it has held up well to the "generous" recoil of the Savage. All that and the price was really easy on my pocket book as well!
It was really hard to line up the camera to take picture through the scope, but wanted to show what the picture looks like with and without a deer in the crosshairs. This was about 100 yards out. I think about at 6x power.

The second picture was a bit out of focus for the camera as it was taken just at dark and the camera could not get the focus very well. It was dark enough that this deer was getting hard to see with the naked eye against that background. Showed up pretty well in the scope though.

That little deer was really lucky he was too small to hear the Savage's roar. I will be back to check him out next year.


This is a picture of the mount. I used two Weaver Grand Slam extended mounts with the rings supplied with the scope. The very short mounting area on the scope was too short to match up with standard mounts.

Trail Cam Pics

A camera and a trail cam add a lot of fun to the deer camp. One of the initial things you notice is the effect you get of the eyes from the flash of the trail camera at night.


Pileated Woodpecker

Wild Turkeys

Powder Vials



Powder Vials 1

Here are my powder vials I've mentioned on a couple boards. These are plastic 5ml sample vials as used in the medical industry. They are great for taking loads to the range or stand. Their lids are both water and air tight and loads stay fresh even for long periods of storage or hauling around in your pants or jacket pocket.
I find the color coded caps handy for separating different loads and you can write on an area on the side. They will hold up to about 85 grains of 4759, or about 110 grains of pyrodex.

I often put a saboted bullet in them pointing down and put the powder on top to use them like speed loaders. They will hold 44 grains of 4759 with a 250g XTP and the 50/45 sabot which works great for my Savage 10ML. Very handy to have a load of powder with sabot and bullet in a single container that you can drop in your pocket, or your bag to go to the deer stand.

You can also put a couple of saboted 250g XTPs in one vial. However you choose to use them, you can readily see the contents which lessens the chance of making mistakes. They measure 2 3/8" high and 9/16" dia.

These vials come in a random mix of five colors of caps as shown here.

Since I had several folks interested in them I ordered some of the "10 ml" vials as well. They are the same diameter and 3 5/8" high and have room for a full 150 plus gr load of pyrodex (white lid vial). They will also hold an XTP 250 with sabot and 120 grains of Pyrodex (red lid vial) or a saboted bullet with up to about 90 grains of smokeless powder as shown in the yellow lid vial.
They will also hold three 250 to 300 gr bullets with sabots as pictured here in the green lid vial.

If you are interested in some of these, send me an e-mail to chuck@royalcs.com. I will mail 50 of the 5 ml vials to you for $19 bucks (US) or $22 (US) for the 10ml vials by first class mail in a padded envelope. If you choose, you can also pay by PayPal using my e-mail address: chuck@royalcs.com .

I will mail them by US Postal Service with a return receipt to show delivery. I cannot be responsible for items lost in the mail. If you desire insurance to protect in that event, it will be $1.65 extra.

If you only want 25 of them I will mail those for $10.00 (US) (or $11.00 (US) for 25 of the 10ml versions). (For any of these add $3.00 for mailing to Canada. I can only ship to US or Canada.)

Quickest and easiest way is to pay by PayPal. My account is my e-mail address: chuck@royalcs.com You can also mail payment to me at P.O. Box 62, Royal, AR 71968

I try to mail your order the first business day after receipt of payment whenever possible.

NOTE: I will be unavailable Aug 20th thru Sep 3rd. Any orders during that time will be shipped after Sep 4th.

Chuck Chatham
Royal, AR USA

chuck@royalcs.com