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    How did they clean their guns.....

    I very much doubt if they were too concerned about getting the barrel down to bare metal like so many are today. I believe that cleaning a firearm like we do today with the intent of getting it mirror bright is a product of 20th Century military training, not necessity and is not historically...
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    Correct Metal Finish?

    Somewhere laying around I have a paper that was done by a researcher who determined that browning was not common in the 18th century. Most guns today in museums, even Trapdoor Springfields from the late 19th century that we know for a fact were blued, have acquired a brown color through...
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    A new southern Rifle

    I am here to say that OldArmy's guns SHOOT like a dream, are very well balanced,and I am proud to be the owner of one that he recently posted in the Classifieds in the forum. Ain't nobody going to get thrown out of rendezvous for being "non-PC" for toting one of his guns, either! Another great...
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    Muzzleloader Builder Supply Dragoons

    Sheesh! Gotta bend the tangs of the butt cap back and forth multiple times while inletting them? Looks like a good way to have to order new butt caps. Steel looks "cool" but fortunately brass is more correct and easier to work with....easier being a relative word in this case. I supposed...
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    Muzzleloader Builder Supply Dragoons

    Has anybody tried building one of the various Dragoon models offered by this firm? Fitting the stirrup to the grip seems to be a fairly complex operation for the novice builder. Any thoughts?
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    Nuthin' like a good piece of hicory...

    Speaking of broken rods....what would a frontiersman have done in the wilderness if he managed to break his rammer? Find a hickory sapling and whittle another? Carry a spare? I am sure that they broke them then just like we break ours today, but when we break one, we go to the car and get...
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    How long does it take you between your first to second shot?

    Patching would definitely take more time than bare-balling it, time that could not be spared in battle. Whetzel would wait until the pursuit had closed to point blank range before shooting from the hip, then take off at a dead run while reloading, so his speed shooting was not aimed fire. I am...
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    How long does it take you between your first to second shot?

    IF you don't mind carrying lead balls around in your mouth, IF you don't mind risking having a powder horn blowup by dumping an unkown charge of powder down the barrel and spitting an unpatched ball down the barrel after it, IF you don't mind thumping the buttstock hard onto the ground to settle...
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    Uberti 1858 Target Carbine -- Any experience?

    I had one and shot a few coons and squirrels with it. It is light enough so that you can hold it with your off hand under your trigger hand, away from the cylinder gap blast. That was not the problem..The problem was when you hold that up to aim, the cap explodes about 3 inches in front of...
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    Latest Pouch for Fowling Gun

    I use tradional 3M Super 77 to adhere my fabric to the leather. It hold it nice and tight, at least until I get my stitch line in. Once I oil the bag with Neetsfoot or bear grease it pulls loose, but because it stretched tight and was held by the stitch line you can't really tell it pulled...
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    belly box/ cartridge box pattern?

    For a very authentic, yet ultra simple box, just take a slightly curved piece of wood about 3 inches high (deep), and drill a single row of 9 3/4 inch holes in it about 2.5 inches deep. Tack the belt loops to the OUTSIDE of the box (yes, that is how they were made). Tack the flap to the back...
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    Double Shot Safety Issues?

    Older Thompson Center manuals used to provide a double ball load. When you think about it, 2 50 caliber balls weigh about 360 grains, same as a 50 cal maxi. Won't hurt anything. Accuracy may or may not be usable, depending on the rifle. My state prohibits multiple ball loads in Muzzleloaders...
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    Sight adjustment switching from maxi to round ball

    In my experience, the light-bullet-shoots-lower phenomenon applies mostly to pistols with the very short barrel time and the light weight of the piece making muzzle rise more of a problem. With a HP rifle, I have always found my lighter bullets to shoot higher with the same powder...
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    How do ya make paper cartrage for .54 cal

    Pure lead will work fine in a black powder Sharps, although the addition of a little wheel wts won't hurt and it may make casting easier. Diameter of the paper cartridge is also not critical in my experience, although I do try to keep it close to bullet diameter just to keep the powder charge...
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    cleaning a fullstock flinter

    I remove mine periodically using one of those screw clamps used for putting even pressure on the mainspring during lock takedown. Mine is adjustable and works fine on the small frizzen spring. Usually though, a good toothbrush/solvent cleans it good enough for me. A little WD-40 to displace...
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    Morning at the range with .54 GPR

    I like to zero my rifles at 75 yards. I use 90 grains of 3f (probably more powder than I really need)as a hunting load in my GPR and this puts it a couple of inches low at 100, a couple of inches high at 50...so I can hold dead on out to 100 and get a hit in the vitals. Doesn't work so well...
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    Linseed Oil on Leather?????

    From reading the link, I can see where I might want to try it for waterproofing leather....but for making the leather supple and flexible, I would think that neatsfoot would be much preferred. Yet I felt the glove that was treated with linseed and it was as flexible as any glove I have ever...
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    Linseed Oil on Leather?????

    Word got around that I did some leather work, so I have been fixing ball gloves on the side as a service for the local high school. Apparently, the ancient practice of oiling up the glove, putting a ball into it, and tying it up tight with string or rubber bands has fallen into disuse. Anyway...
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    Cleaning .32 Green Mountain barrel with smaller chamber

    The regular peroxide you use in your mixture is mostly water, and once exposed to air it turns to all water soon anyway. In my reduced chamber rifles I pour in some solution after plugging the touchhole with a toothpick. I then put a wet patch on the jag, start it into the barrel, pull the...
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    Firing shot from a rifle?

    Even a 1/66 twist imparts a tremendous amount of rpm to any projectile in it. At a moderate 1000 feet/sec muzzle velocity you get around 12,000 rpm, or 200 rps. Spinning a shot cup that fast is going to get the shot spinning with it, and thus you get big holes in your pattern. I think about...
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