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    Building a Powder Horn

    I haven't even completed my first horn yet, but I wanted to share/ask. I see most people use rit. I used Revlon bright red hair dye in a tube. Before I knew about rit, I figured hair and horn are pretty much the same. Has anyone tried this before? I got great results. It's about toothpaste...
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    Hello from CT.

    Hello from PA
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    New member

    Hello from Pittsburgh
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    Big Ray

    Welcome from Pittsburgh
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    Center Drilling a Hole in the End of a Rod

    Seriously though, Mcmaster-carr is really good for finding stuff like that.
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    Center Drilling a Hole in the End of a Rod

    He used a lathe 😁
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    If You Order From Pecatonica Beware Of Shipping Issues With USPS

    It's not their preferred shipping method though. I don't have any experience with them but what you're saying and faulting them for seems to be not true, at least for the lower 48 Home > How to Order How to Order We ship all our stocks by UPS or U. S. Mail. Shipping in the lower 48...
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    what were they thinking??

    I always though that would cause gasses to leak out the threads. Maybe they decided that was too much work and wrapped it with Teflon tape 🤣
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    Frustrated - Hopefully just the growing pains of a newbie

    My normal is water, balistol, Murphy's, and a bit of peroxide. For mystery 20 year old bore crud I've been known to spend an hour going through a bunch of different solvents to get it back to clean metal. Dawn, denatured alcohol, kroil, laquer thinner, etc. whatever might cut the mystery...
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    Let's see your Belt or Rifleman's knife

    I love the handle on the top one.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Ordered a .495 round ball mold, found a local group that does a monthly open sights woods walk that I plan on joining Sunday, and continued doing research on a yet to be determined longrifle build.
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    Removing Factory Finish on Traditions Kentucky.

    Like others said, be really careful with sandpaper it tends to round off corners, which makes things like inlays, metal fittings, for end caps have a really poor fit if you're not careful. I screwed up a Mauser stock with sandpaper. A flat, concave and convex scraper do a much better job...
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    Sling Ideas for Trade Gun

    I really know very little about historical, period correctness. Having said that, I know sling swivels existed at the time even if they were uncommon. Lewis had swivels installed on all of the short rifles he ordered and 15 slings to go with them. The pictures I saw seemed to be shaped like a...
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    Anyone here own exclusively muzzle loading firearms?

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    Anyone here own exclusively muzzle loading firearms?

    One of my former neighbors only had flintlocks. I'm the opposite, I have a safe full of modern firearms, a couple WWII military arms, and handguns. I only recently got into BP when one of the older fellows at camp passed along a TC Hawken. The lock was in bad shape, and as I learned how to fix...
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    If You Order From Pecatonica Beware Of Shipping Issues With USPS

    Wow, that must have been an incredibly stressful 2 weeks. Glad you got your stock back undamaged
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    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    I would be in your debt and would really appreciate it. I love the walkthrough, how long have you been at that one? I expect it would probably take me a few weeks of laying out the parts, looking at the template, staring at it and thinking about it before I got the confidence to make the cuts...
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    If it sounds too good to be true.........

    Payment clearing isn't enough. Charge backs can happen days after a payment clears the bank. If he asks for a refund in the interim, you send the money back to him, then the bank does the chargeback leaving you short. I have no personal experience with this, but I know someone who has been...
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    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    Not at all. I started the original post asking about flinters with full stocks, hooked breeches and wedged keys that were on rifles made by someone other than the hawkins brothers (as I said in the original post people smarter than me doubt that combination ever existed on a hawkins). I'm aware...
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    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    I hear what you're saying, but it's not really about saving money, it's about learning and creating, which I find rewarding in and of itself. I'm going to have so much of my time invested it'll be the most expensive rifle ever created. That said, in the grand scheme of things it's really not...
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