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    Got my T/C Big Boar .58!!

    No, the pillow patch refers to the pillow ticking patch around the round ball. The hornets nest is a buffer placed down over the powder in lieu of a fiber wad to protect the patch from burnout caused by heavy powder charges.
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    Accessories are expensive!

    OK, going down through your list: Cleaning Rod: Good idea, rammer with threaded brass tip will work in the short term. Tips: a Tow worm doubles as a patch puller and will hold a wad of tow or a cleaning patch. Jags are cheap, but not indispensible. Don't need a scraper or a brush. A wad of...
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    help!!! stuck jag

    Set the gun muzzle down in the corner overnight. It there is any oil left in the breach it will drain forward and be absorbed by the patch. It it is wd-40 it is dry already. Then go ahead and trickle powder in through the vent whole and shoot it out before you bugger everything up and kick...
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    TRIGGERS

    I am not an expert in Va rifles, or any other school for that matter, but it seems to me that double set triggers would have been an option then as today. If a gentleman buyer had a few extra dollars, then he might opt for them over a single trigger. A frontiersman who wanted a working rifle...
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    help!!! stuck jag

    Put a little bit of powder in through the touch hole and shoot it out. Not going to hurt anything. The patch surrounds the jag and the jag never touches the barrel. With about 10 grains or so of powder you will just get a "pffftttt" and the jag will come out.
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    First Horn & A New Bag

    I just finished one of Albert's patterns for a bag I made. All I did was blow his pattern up on a copy machine to about 125 percent to make it the size I like, which is about 8in x 8 inches. You could make em bigger, I guess, but if you make them big then you end up carrying stuff in it that...
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    why not a double flint gun

    I think the reason that they have not gained in popularity has more to do with the fact that when a righty fires off the left barrel, he is essentially using a left handed flintlock and you have a jet of fire coming out just inches from your eyes. Probably safe enough, but it has to be a major...
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    Armi Jager Zouave

    With a tight patch and a marked rammer, you should be able to figure this out yourself fairly easily. Shove the patch down the barrel until the tick mark on the rammer rotates 90 degrees. Mark the rammer where it enters the barrel. Pull out the rammer, measure the distance from that mark to...
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    how much 4f

    Semisame is right. 2F or 3f priming works fine and has some advantages over 4f for that purpose. In fact, the original military loading procedure had the soldier biting off the tip of a paper cartridge and dumping a bit of the powder (2F) into the pan for priming. Although this is considered an...
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    Armi Jager Zouave

    Your GM 58 no doubt has much deeper roundball type rifling and gives the patch someplace to compress. The shallow minie rifling in the CW rifles is designed to grab a minie's flared skirt, and you do not want deep rifling for that or you get a lot of blowby and gas cutting of the minie. A round...
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    wet leather discoloration

    I normally soak the entire piece in walnut dye pryor to the turning process so water marks or not they are hidden by the dye. Even if you don't dye it, immersion in water makes turning the leather much easier and once it dries any water marks are uniform and dissappear anyway.
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    Casting Bullets

    Be sure to smoke the mould, and to lube the v blocks and cutoff plate bolt...aluminum is soft and will gall badly if heated if you do not do this. Richard Lee in his book says most Lee molds are ruined by people who fail to heed his instructions.
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    Pyrodex pellets

    Not to mention how many people are willing to pay more than twice as much for the pelletized BP substitutes as a pound of loose would cost! That is a lot to pay for the "convenience" of blowing unburned pellets out your muzzle, and for being able to load any charge you want, provided it is in...
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    Greased Leggings

    Bear grease to keep the leather supple after being sweated on.
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    .562 or .570 RB

    I have a .58 Getz barrel on my Jaeger. A Lee 575 unpatched will sit on the muzzle. I have used nothing but 562s in that rifle since I got it. Ticking patching and 70-90 grains powder, depending on whether I am plinking or hunting.
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    Percussion to flint

    Depends on the rifle. If yours has a drum and nipple arrangement, it is simply a matter of unsrewing the drum and replacing it with a touchhole liner, and replacing the lock with a flinlock model. Lots of the common mass produced guns are set up so that one stock can be fitted with either a...
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    Frizzen Hardening

    I read about it in a Dixie Gun Works catalog many years ago. I tried it once and it worked. Take a steel (not aluminum) can and put a couple of inches of sugar and/or leather scraps into the bottom of the can. Now lay your frizzen in, and pour more sugar in to completely cover the frizzen...
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    Springfield or Enfield?

    Might want to try them both on for size. The Enfield does not have much drop in the stock and I had to really scrunch the stock to get the sights. The Springfield has drop, but the rear sight is positioned very close to the rear of the barrel and older eyes may find it more difficult to focus...
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    Federal era

    The Federal Era describes the Federal Period between 1790 and 1830 when the Federalist Party ran the US Government. At least that is what I found when I looked it up. They have "Federal Period" architecture, so my guess is that the Federal Period of gun building spans the same time span.
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    linen possible bags

    They have some nice looking linen bags posted over on the CLA site. I get a lot of my ideas from there. Embroidered bags with simple folk art motifs are very interesting to my eye. I wish my embroidery skills were better!
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