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    Drilling holes in tangs

    I try to get the punch mark as close to center as possible, then I drill the pilot hole about 1/3 of the final diameter needed for the tang screw. Then I check it to make sure it is perfectly centered, which it quite often is NOT! If it is off, I use a Swiss rat-tail file to get the hole big...
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    Kodiak double rifle

    I have a .54. The real question is not "what's the maximum load", but "what powder chartge is required with a specific projectile to get the barrels to shoot close together"?? This is usually very different from a max load! Mine has a 1/66" twist, intended for round balls, but it will keep...
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    Fast lock time

    Lock time varies depending on how far the tip of the flint has to travel before sparks hit the priming charge, and from that point on, lock time depends on whaere the touch-hole is located, and how far the flash from the pan has to penetrate into the touch hole before it reaches the main charge...
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    Back to the jaeger question

    Well, you know, it should have hurt to shoot that load, as when I got home, I ran the figures through my recoil calculating program, and it came out to be 51 foot-pounds. However, shooting this load did not seem to hurt as much as shooting my Ruger No.1 45/70 with a 400-grain bullet at 2200...
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    Flinters - Is this new rifle of mine faulty?

    I agree with Zonie :agree: - the "semi-patent" hole in the face of the breechplug to the flash channel should be at least .3" in diameter. For large-caliber guns I cut mine 0.320" in diameter, to a depth of one diameter past the flash channel entrance into this "chamber". Guns thus breeched...
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    Back to the jaeger question

    I have heard this idea also, but am not convinced that it is true. It was stated that the Germans loaded their rifles with plain unpatched balls and thus had to "hammer them down the bore using an iron rod and a mallet". The idea of using an under-bore diamter ball in a greased cloth or...
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    Shooting very undersized balls/.570 in a .62"

    I have shot .550" balls in my .58 (.575" land dia.) with a thick artist's canvas patch, and they shot quite reasonably! Loaded pretty easy too, as you noted. I used 120 grains of GOEX FFg, same load I use with a 570-grain Minie ball in this (Green River Rifle Works 36" barrel, 1/60" twist)...
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