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    Building a Manton V-Pan Lock

    I have always loved the looks of the famous Manton V-Pan lock but have never been able to find one. I recently built one from castings provided by The Rifle Shoppe, and I put together a web page detailing all of the assembly steps and showing some useful tricks for lock building in general...
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    .22 cal

    Use Crossman Premier pellets, or if you want more 'stopping power', Ein Jung makes heavy 32gr pelltes, kind of like a .22 short slug. You can get these at Mac-1 airguns. Mac-1 Airguns
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    .22 cal

    Here's another .22 BP shooting pellets - it is also a hoot to shoot, and only $0.02/shot. .22 BP Rifle
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    What a Manton fowler cost in 1815

    I am in the process of building a Manton V-pan lock based on John Manton's 1815 patent. Reputedly, it was the fastest flintlock ever made and was very popular for a few years until Manton stopped all flintlock production in 1825. I was able to find an excellent book about the Mantons and this...
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    The best way to temper a mainspring

    Yes, I have acutally tested it with both large and small springs. Before this, I have never been able to successfully temper thin springs without breaking at least one, but this solved the problem. Although I have not used a lead bath, if I were to do so, I would overheat at least 5# of lead...
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    The best way to temper a mainspring

    Here is a great method to always ensure a "well tempered" mainspring (or frizzen spring). Spring Tempering
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    What's your favorite Lube?

    I use 'honey'. See the link. Honey lube
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    Brechloading flintlock pistol tests!

    The Dreyse is what is known as a tap-loader. Unfortunately, it only works well with short ball+powder lengths. The mechanism is still used for some custom airguns.
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    Percussion Parlor Pistol Ballistics

    Tired of burning a lot of powder? Bruised by recoil? Mauled by your .75 Kodiak double rifle? Move over to a genteel sport - indoor ML shooting! Parlor Ballistics
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    Brechloading flintlock pistol tests!

    The weather here finally broke and I was able to do the first tests on my breech-loading flintlock pistol. All I can say is WOW! The results are here: Breechloading]http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/breechml/breechml]Breechloading flintlock pistol[/url]
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    Brechloading flintlock pistol tests!

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    Breechloading flintlock pistol

    No, I'm not doing anything commercial with the pistol; I just did it as an educational 'fun' project. If anyone else wants to produce them, they have my blessings.
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    Breechloading flintlock pistol

    I have completed constructing and proof-tested a breechloading flintlock pistol. The weather here is too bad for me to complete chronographing and accuracy testing, but I have put up a web page describing its design and construction. It looks like it will be a fun piece to shoot... Pistol web...
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    Detonation ?

    Can't happen. See the link: http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/sparks/sparks.html
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    Rust Prevention Tips

    As any museum conservator would say, an armory wax is the only way to go for long term storage. See a good link on rust prevention: http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/corrosion/corrosion.html
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    Ballistics

    The link is: http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/rbballistics/rbballistics.html
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    extreme appoligy, but

    Simple - 1/3 Murphy's Oil Soap, 1/3 plain water, 1/3 anhydrous (99%) isopropanol (that's rubbing alcohol without the water). This gives you the same percentage of solids as Lehigh Valley Lube (and works identically as far as I can tell..). Peroxide does nothing whatsoever, and it spontaneously...
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    cap and ball pistol

    With my Rodgers & Spencer .44, I use 25 grains of Swiss 3FG, and then fill the cylinders to within 1/4" of the top with corn meal or Cream of Wheat. I then seat the balls flush and finish with a bead of WL around the ball, dispensed from a glue syringe. The corn meal acts as an inert filler and...
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    Effects of BP Load Compression

    I was using a Pedersoli "Alamo", which I think is the sake as the "Frontier" - just a different lockplate and patchbox.
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    Effects of BP Load Compression

    Shooters: I updated my ML Experiments web page with new data about the effects of load compression on BP performance. BP Compression
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