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    british navy flintlock, circa french revolution...

    I think all the purveyors of "Made in India" repros sell Sea Serice pistols. The ones I know of are: Middlesex Village Trading Co.,Loyalist Arms and The Discriminating General. Google 'em and you'll have their websites. I haven't dealt with any of them personally, so Caveat Emptor applies ...
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    Spiked Tomahawk

    As Boarding"hatchets", yes they are definitely period appropriate and were used through the 18th and into the 19th century. Not just the Brits, but the US Navy also used them (don't know 'bout the French/Spanish, etc.). The handles were short like tomahawks, not long like modern axe handles...
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    british navy flintlock, circa french revolution...

    What's generally referred to as the Sea Service pistol ( sometimes preceeded by Royal Navy...or Tower...in the title). The Brits were the most profligate manufacturers of pistols for Naval use at the time and these were favored by period seamen of many nationalities. Here's an image from one...
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    Soldiers And Militia Getting Burnt While Shooting Flintlocks?

    My take (as a former museum professional) is that a statistically insignificant number of museum specimens has to be evaluated in light of normal collections management challenges. As a collections manager, you have to be wary of "originality" in older specimens. For example, you would not...
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    Muzzleloader Protection

    Hey, the main thing is to remember to put SOMETHING down there... That said, I started using Ballistol after I read two studies (published online) that graphically demonstrated that it was most effective. But I'm getting Deja Vu here...
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    smoking

    I buy the cheapest, nastiest rolling tobacco I can get locally for events ("top", "bugler", etc.). It's probably a close approximation of 18th/19th century Maryland "leaf" anyway. The main idea, however, is this way I won't get too fond of it. Smoked for 12+/- years from teenage until I got...
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    Espontoon?

    A "stick" will at least eliminate vertical movements, so you can concentrate on reducing horizonatal unsteadiness. It works ! I only know of one documented use of such a system in that time period. That is with the Austrian Grenz Infantrie ( Imperial Border Light Infantry ). In the early...
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    wool

    I'm going to quote myself here from a post about Tea dyeing back in January. There is a huge amount of word-of-mouth advice around about dyeing that is just plain wrong. Wrong if you want decent results that last, or historically accurate ones, that is. Hope this helps... "The...
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    French Fowler 1750

    Wow ! That auction site is an outstanding resource. Huge selection of original ( well, let's say "apparently" original ) longarms with good images of each. I can't think of any other website where I've seen that many pieces from the early 18th century well photographed in one place. Great...
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    Chesapeake Bay horn

    Outstanding. For a Midwesterner you got sucked into the local historical, and natural history, culture here right quick! Very creditable to honor us with that work. If you...ummm...ever find yourself with lots of time on your hands and are interested in taking a commision for similar work -...
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    first GPR cleaning

    Anything sufficiently dissolving will work. I think I used Simple Green cleaner at 100% with a thin piece of pulled apart 0000 steel wool on an undersized jag. That requires a tiny bit of elbow grease as opposed to using some industrial strength toxin. I don't like highly toxic stuff that has...
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    Cracked, and chipped Brewers Pitch.

    I think I'd go with adding a spot of new pitch rather than trying to melt the 30+ year old stuff and spread it around. Probably some significant loss of viscosity has occured after all that time. Plus it might get tricky adding enough heat to melt the pitch without really stressing the...
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    PRB LOADS

    A couple balls and pre-lubed patches loose in a very small tin with a tight lid, or sometimes a small (but stiff) leather bag. Paper powder cartridges in another tin. That's not as fast as a loading block, but it doesn't leave your balls hanging out there in the breeze either !
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    Your muzzleloader activity in 2006 ??

    I finally put a decent finsh on my "custom built" smoothbore, which looked like a Junior High School wood shop project. Almost gave myself Tennis Elbow rubbing in, like, 20 coats of oil. I worked up a reliable shot load for same, first time using shot in a ML'er for me. Went to the Fort...
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    How far?

    I've had a .62 Smoothy with a 46" barrel for a little over a year now. The only load I've used consistently is a "running ball" (.610, unpatched) with a OP card/fibre wad/OS card combination. I'm getting a group that's a few inches at 50 yards, fired from a rest. There's no perceptible...
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    Sighting with no rear sight?

    I suspect ( 'cause I don't own any round breeched Smoothies ) this is a whole lot easier with a hexagonal breech. there is an old thread from last year that covers somebody filing a notch in the center of his breech/tang to use like a primitive rear sight. This is apparently PC as well as...
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    Terror on the Chesapeake

    When attempting to evaluate a secondary source work of history, check the bibliography first. Then look at the citations in the footnotes, etc. Try to keep your eye out for gross surmisals and sweeping conclusions based on small bits of evidence. As a broad generalization, a well trained...
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    Wound bakllistic of ML-bullets?

    Interesting situation. I actually would have expected a more scientific approach in Germany - and a more emotional, pseudo-factual one here in the states. Das ist doch furchtbar bloed ! I don't have any links to wound ballistics data handy. But if you all wanted to change the focus of the...
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    stand, blind or still hunting

    I gave tree-standing a limited trial. It's supposed to be the most effective, which I understand, but it's not very historical. Plus, unless you use a climbing stand ( really not historical ) I reckon you need a few stands around your hunting property to accomodate wind direction, time-of-day...
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    To Flintlock or not to Flintlock . . .

    There appears to be an opening for a "Devil's advocate" here... I actually bought a percussion GPR after my custom-made Flinter. It wasn't because of any negative Flint experience, and I wasn't specifically thinking about reliability either. I was thinking that I'd like something more...
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