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    Identifying a Colt Paterson

    This may be out of frames of the forum, but perhaps someone could help me, as we have no authorities on the Paterson Colt here in Sweden. I have in my possession a Colt Paterson revolver that looks very authentic and old to me.However, it does not have the Paterson adress on top of the barrel...
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    Loading method

    Many early Swedish and Scandinavian civilian and military rifles were loaded with a round ball that was just slightly larger in diameter than the bore of the rifle (in swedish "trångkula") ,but of the same diameter as the groves of the rifling. The ball was started into the muzzle with a small...
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    Loading method

    I can find no evidence of balls being patched during the matchlock era here in Sweden. At the end of the matchlock era, a 1680 regulation states that the soldier was to rip off the end of the paper cartridge with his teeth, take the ball into his mouth , pour the powder charge into the barrel...
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    Loading method

    The swedish military match lock musket M/1620 had a regulated charge of 19,9 grams of black powder! Yes, 19,9 grams, and that is a tremendous charge, even though apr. 0,5 grams was used for priming. When proof firing one of the first match lock muskets that I built I brought 8 balls of apr 38,0...
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    Pinning a matchlock barrel

    The swedish M/1620 that I copied from a museum speciemen used three tenons and pins to hold barrel. Tenons were dovetailed to barrel. Magnus
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    Pinning a matchlock barrel

    The swedish M/1620 that I copied from a museum species used three tenons and pins to hold barrel to stock. Tenons were dovetailed to underside of barrel. Magnus
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    16 century powder flask

    If you want to go overseas, I build them in just about any size. I only use traditional methods and materials, and they are very accurate in every detail. You can se one in my homepage, if you like. Magnus Wiberg
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    Custom barrelmaking

    Can someone give an accurate figure how many rifle smiths there are in the US, who have the equipment and knowledge to start with a solid bar of steel and will bore, ream and rifle a ML barrel from scratch. And I don´t mean big factories , but craftsmen ,working on their own , like myself here...
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    Baltic Snaphaunce

    I´d say a major difference is the snaplock has no tumbler inside the lockplate. Also the main spring is at the outside of the lockolate. Only the "sear" is working inside the plate at a snaplock and a small touth protruding thru a small hole and engaging the cock at the outer surface. Magnus
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    Baker blog updated

    Hi Robin in my close to fifty years of ML shooting, I found it almost impossible to get a tight or even fairly tight pattern in a rifle with a pitted barrel, using the spherical ball with a patch. That rough inner bore will certainly cut the patch and affect the movement of the ball, both...
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    1620 Swedish matchlock musket

    Bartek my musket is 147 cm overall. Barrel is 116 cm. Magnus
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    Swedish Snap Haunce Flint Lock

    Perhaps another Swedish Snap Haunce flint lock rifle might interest you list members. This is a very old and dated Snap Haunce rifle. It is believed to be one of maybe only twenty surviving rifles of the oldest style from the "Jukkasjärvi" region in northern Sweden. In fact it was built in the...
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    1620 Swedish matchlock musket

    Since I believe I´m now able to not only post words but also pictures here, I´d like to share with you listmembers some pics from my forge/shop where I happily spend my days building ,and repairing , ML firearms. These pictures show some steps in building my 1620 Swedish Match Lock Musket...
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    Baltic Snaphaunce

    To the list hurrah, I made it, One more try Magnus
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    Baltic Snaphaunce

    Bookie and the list, with the help of Arilar and some more trial and error, I´ll try to post a mail WITH a picture.There is no description to the picture, but it WILL follow if this comes out alright.....!? Magnus
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    Baltic Snaphaunce

    Hi Bookie, for hours now I´ve been trying different ways of getting some selected pictures into the air . But it just doesn´t seem I´m the man to handle a computor. I got them pics into a Photobucket album, but after that , I just can´t figure..... Now my last hope is Arilar, who will come...
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    Baltic Snaphaunce

    Good evening , Bookie , my friend. I would like to very much. Only, I don´t know how to add a picture here.
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    Baltic Snaphaunce

    Hello Arilar, I haven´t been in here for quite a while now. But now that I´m here my mouth is watering at the sight of this little "sledge gun", and yes, the snaphaunce really is a favorite with me. As we talked on the phone just a while back, you know I´m working on your guns, as well as...
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    Japanese Matchlock

    A very good book on Japanese matchlocks is "The Japanese Matchlock-A Story of the Tanegashima" , written by Shigeo Sugawa. He is considered an authority on the Japanese match lock, and he´s been shooting them for years. He would probably also know about the smith, who built your gun. Magnus in...
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    A little something for the Matchlock shooters

    If that was not a blank load..... I´m sure glad I was not behind the camera!
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