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    Scouring Stick vs. Wiping Stick vs. Ramrod

    So if I am reading this correctly, the hunters of the F&I and revolutionary periods probably would have carried a wiping stick in the bores of their weapons, which probably would have been loaded when they were out and about. Just would have had to remember to remove them before firing. Is...
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    Scouring Stick vs. Wiping Stick vs. Ramrod

    So do you think the hunters and settlers of the F&I and revolutionary periods may have called them rammers and not wiping sticks?
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    Scouring Stick vs. Wiping Stick vs. Ramrod

    So when these matchlock shooters referred to a scouring stick, was that a stick with scrapers attached? Was this the norm on matchlocks of the 1600"s?
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    .520 or .526 RB in .54

    Thanks Roundball. What you say makes sense. One would expect the bore diameter of a .54 to be about .540. Of course the bore diameter is the land to land diameter, since the rifling grooves are cut into the bore--so what you say does make sense. The confusion arose from the fact that the...
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    18th century colonial rifle calibers

    Mike, Thanks very much for the info--that clarifies a whole lot. Excellent work!
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    Scouring Stick vs. Wiping Stick vs. Ramrod

    Hello everyone I believe the term ramrod is a 20th century term--is this correct? Also, around Thanksgiving last year I was watching Plymouth Adventure which starred Spencer Tracy. Of course this was set during the matchlock era. The ramrod was being referred to as a scouring stick. A few...
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    .520 or .526 RB in .54

    Thanks for the reply. But sholdn't we be concerned with the windage along the grooves? If my groove to groove diameter is .568, and I use a .520 ball with a .020 patch, that would be a patch and ball thickness of .560--.008 less than the groove to groove diameter. Is not this what we should...
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    .520 or .526 RB in .54

    Ok, I'm not real good with calipers, but I measured my Colerain .54 swamped barrel the other night. Bore diameter (land to land) is about .535. Groove to grrove (trying to measure from the bottom center of one groove to the bottom center of the opposite groove, since they are round bottomed)...
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    Brass Barrels

    A good friend of mine and a member of our club who builds rifles has a brass-barrelled percussion Vincent he built in .36 or.40--says it shoots excellently. Only one I've ever seen.
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    Most Used Calibre Flinter?

    I would agree with Mike. If you're talking approximately the F&I period, I would guess for rifle guns .54 to .62.
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    Silk for patches

    Wouldn't silk be too thin to use as a patching material? Seems to me it would burn through and give very poor accuracy. I looked at that line from The Last of the Mohicans as pure Hoolywood.
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    .520 or .526 RB in .54

    Thanks for all the replies. The barrel I was referring to is a Colerain swamped rifled barrel. I have loaded it with a .535 RB, but had to use a wooden hammer on the short starter--which is not uncommon for our club. At our last club shoot I used .530 RB--could wack the short starter with my...
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    Daniel Boone Series on DVD?

    Thanks for straightening that out--my memory wasn't off too far. I knew there had to be more than 85 episodes. By the way, how many people are into this hobby now brcause of the impression made on them by Fess Parker when they were growing up? Any of ya'll like that?
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    .520 or .526 RB in .54

    Does anyone use a .520 or .526 RB in their .54? If so, what are your observations on it?
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    Left eye dominant

    I am also left-eye dominant and right handed. I do all shooting right handed. For rifle shooting I sight in by tapping the front sight off center--works great for me but someone else would have a hard time hitting with one of my rifles. Since I shoot pistol with one hand, I can easily close...
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    Ferguson flintlock

    Early last year I saw an original Ferguson which was said to possibly be Ferguson's personal rifle, since it came from the Ferguson ancestral home. It was on loan from a museum in England (London I believe) to the museum here in Charleston, where a special display on the siege and occupation of...
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    Ferguson flintlock

    My information may be wrong, but I've read somewhere that there are only two original Fergusons known to exist in the US--one in a museum in Tennessee and one in a museum in Detroit. I also read that when Narragansett made their Ferguson, they disassembled the one in Detroit to make castings of...
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    Daniel Boone Series on DVD?

    Thanks for the replies. Just another quick question. I would have thought there would have been more than 85 episodes of the series. If I remember correctly, the series ran from 1964-1971. I was only in the first grade in 1964, so my memory may be faulty. Can anyone verify for me when the...
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    Daniel Boone Series on DVD?

    Hello everyone, With all these TV shows coming out on DVD, does anyone know if the 1960's Daniel Boone series with Fess Parker is on DVD? I keep looking at Wal-Mart and video stores with no luck. Thanks for any info.
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    Pedersoli French Muskets

    Does anyone have any experience with the Pedersoli French Model 1777 Revolutionnaire or the 1777 Corrige An IV? I have a Pedersoli Kentucky and had a problem with one of the pins working itself out of the stirrup which connects the mainspring and tumbler. I was looking at one of these two as a...
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