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  1. Twisted_1in66

    Barrels that are not 12L14 steel

    Those original rifle barrels were hammer forge-welded from a flat skelp of wrought iron. They started by putting that skelp on convex forms, heating, hammering, and slowly bending that skelp into a "u" shape. Then they put a mandrel inside that cupped skelp so they couldn't accidentally hammer...
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    tick treatment

    Permethrin on clothing and gear is superb! I have a number of Buzz-off clothing (now known as Insect-Shield) that are impregnated with it and used them extensively when I was a fly-fishing instructor and guide. They work wonderfully well. Do not spray it on you or you will have a bad...
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    hunting eastern washington

    Good to hear that. It was a tough thing to put up with. I was playing in a touring nightclub group and we played there for 2-weeks. As long as I didn't go outside, it was fine. From 2005 until 2015 I lived in the Blue Ridge Mts. just south of Roanoke, VA and I would fish the Jackson River...
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    hunting eastern washington

    Beware of the paper factories in the Tri-Cities of WA. Haven't been there in many years because I avoid it. I was in a touring nightclub group in 1971 through 1973 and we played the Red Lion Inn in Richland. Everywhere we went in a car in Pasco, Kennewick, or Richland, we had to keep the...
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    Spear head load board

    If you want to make period correct cartridges and just carry those instead of a powder horn, they were doing that all the time in the Rev War. Here's a shot of an actual French cartridge from the American Revolutionary War. They kept these in cartridge boxes riding on their right hip and the...
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    Bacon breakfast

    Must have been very early in the morning as it wasn't even light yet. Bacon in the morning was one of the things I enjoyed most when I was a member of the Virginia 7th Regiment at their reenactments. We had one member, Private Drummond, who always brought his spider-skillet with him (cast iron...
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    Goex Powder from Moosic PA Plant

    yeah that's the stuff in the old can. I bought some in 1969 when I bought a Pedersoli cap and ball Kentucky Pistol. For some reason, I stored some of it in a quart jar. Then in 2004 when I got my first flintlock, I couldn't find any black powder so tried Pyrodex RS, which didn't work at all -...
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    Carburetor cleaner

    Cold water by itself works fine, hot water better, but watch out for flash rust. which comes back as rusty color on your wet patch. I just use cold water when I run out of my MAP solution. I don't remember whether it's warm water, or boiling water that causes flash rust...might be boiling...
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    Carburetor cleaner

    The MAP mixture I've used for the past 20 years was equal parts of each. I mix 16-oz. Murphy's Oil Soap, 16-oz Isopropyl Alcohol (rubbing alcohol at least 70%, 91% even better), and 16-oz Hydrogen Peroxide). I mix it in a 48-oz. plastic container with air-tight seal for storage at home. I buy...
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    Can you get 3 aimed shots a minute?

    That's real true, I broke a wooden one myself. Luckily didn't go through my hand and I learned to take short strokes with the ramrod (9" to 12" at a time) to seat the ball instead of trying to seat it with one or two stokes. Be aware, that during the Revolutionary war the ramrods for rifles...
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    Can you get 3 aimed shots a minute?

    That part of the movie was inspired by two battles. First was the Battle of Cowpens (January 1781) where General Daniel Morgan had taken 600-men of General Greene's Continental army and 400 militia and headed northwest in North Carolina. British General Cornwallis split off a contingent of...
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    Traditions Patented Breech Help

    Once you get it clean you can use hydraulic pressure to keep it clean. My first longrifle was a Traditions Pennsylvania Longrifle and it uses a patent breech. I still use that same method with my Early Lancaster Rifle from a private builder (was "tg" from the forum) although it has a standard...
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    Can you get 3 aimed shots a minute?

    I've attached a pdf template with instructions for making paper cartridges like the one in my post. They are for reenactment rounds so we don't put a lead ball in them, but can easily be made to include a lead ball. Be sure you use a short piece of copper pipe or just a piece of a dowel. The...
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    Can you get 3 aimed shots a minute?

    One thing you have to remember is that British Line soldiers who had to accomplish the "three shots per minute" rate were doing so using paper cartridges loaded with undersized balls (.69 cal. for .75 musket) and measured powder. they carried them in a cartridge box hung from their left...
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    Flint to frizzen angle?

    You need to move the flint back a bit, especially if it is resting against the frizzen at half cock. It appears that you are using a rather thick piece of leather to hold your flint that is causing that problem. You should be able to actually fix this pretty simply. Just take the flint and...
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