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    Euroarms Enfield Musket

    Pervious info all good. Lead too hard, Minie design questionable, Bore size to minie Size, stock warped. Like previously mentioned, try the Round ball and patch. Also Check tightness of Rings to barrel. I’ve seen barrel-band problems with Zouve’s and the problems resolved by placing card...
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    Cream of weat or Corn Meal?

    I use Corn Meal. I have a .38 Special Shell, with the top cut at an angle soldered to a wire handle for easy scooping and pouring. I don’t worry about overage, I just pour it in the cylinder over the powder. After the cylinders are full, and corn meal level with top of the cylinder, I tap...
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    Crisco on hot days

    Ah yes! Using Crisco for lub in the 58 cal. ~Thrills me to the bones. The smell of burnt black powder and fried chicken. It just doesn’t get any better than that. :rotf:
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    Making a above ground firepit/grill?

    I asked similiar question in the past. Check past hitory files "NO FIRE RINGS!" under Camp Gear.
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    Lee Minie Ball Molds

    Brassell31. You mentioned that you were using a fiberglass ramrod. I used to think they were great until one of the greybeards at the shooting range, demonstrated the wear a fiberglass rod inflicts. Try this~ Get yourself a piece of steel. Any piece should do. What you are trying to...
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    Lee Minie Ball Molds

    I have used a Lee Minie Ball for hunting muleys for years. 58 cal in various reproduction and original Springfield type muskets. Leaves a nasty hole upon contact. Gives one real respect for those poor guys that fought the Civil War. The Minie is of the LEE Modern Minie Ball Molds series...
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    Fitting a new hammer?

    Perhaps I have found HE (DaveK) that will give light to question/S. How does one establish What the hammer throw is on a gun missing a hammer? They have hammers that ae 1 5/8 inch and 1 ½ inch. I’m a wood butcher and working to 1/8 on a house frame Is one thing”¦but on a hammer ”¦...
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    T/C Hawkens

    A buddy and I each bought a 50 Cal TC Hawken in the mid 1970’s. Factory build models not a kit. Shot them in competition for years. We shot 50 yards most of the time. Competition was at least once a month, practice was 2 to 3 times a week in the summer months. For many years both rifles...
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    Snakes in a Bedroll

    Hum ”“ “Snakes will not cross over rope.- old Wives Tale.” Yah, I suppose one couldn’t say that for all snakes (ref. ~ snakes will not cross a rope). Hear-say a rope won’t bother a “Hoopsnake” as they just roll over it. :haha:
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    Snakes in a Bedroll

    To prevent snakes from getting into your camping/sleeping/ bedroll area -place at least A ½ inch hemp rope circling the area. Evidently the hemp has enough rough texture The snakes would rather go around than over. Now that’s the story the old Cowboy’s Tell. I haven’t tried it. Half...
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    Snakes in a Bedroll

    My dad was in the Army during WW2. They were training the Boys for desert warfare (later North Africa) some where near the Salt and Sea in Southern California. One night while on bivoouac one of the soldiers woke up and told the others around him to get the sargent because there was a snake...
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    i need some ideas

    Make yourself a turnscrew. That’s a fancy name for a screwdriver. Usually the head of a turnscrew is hollow ground (straight ground) not tapered. Thus when using on the screw it does not deform the slot into a “V” shape. Do a google search under turnscrew and shotgun and you should come...
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    old deer antler

    For muley antlers that have been exposed to weather I have brought a little bit of life back to them by applying a walnut wiping stain. You wipe it on wait a few minutes (3 -5) and then wipe with another cloth. The low points have a darker look than the higher areas. If you want things a...
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    MONKS GUN

    Thanks for your input. Per provided link I checked out post #64997 photo. Viewing the “MONKS GUN” there I drew the conclusion that the Artist’s drawing I was looking at probably had the artist’s interpretation possibly wrong. The photo shows a “let us Say -Belt Hook” under the weapon. I...
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    MONKS GUN

    IF THIS WORKS. VIEW PAGE 81 TOP RIGHT CORNER. http://books.google.com/books?id=sCnyIzibmywC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=+%22monks+gun%22&source=web&ots=lPoW-Iy5mv&sig=pdPqrzUnxaLIocr0pGG2mC-V-tY Looks like the hands are holding (balancing) a lot of metal out there. A little TOO top heavy.
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    MONKS GUN

    Anybody have photo/s of a "MONKS GUN?" please post if available. I have copies of a line drawing and an artist rendering, but would like to see the real thing. OF the artist's rendering - I doubt whether there is a human living or dead that could hold up a cannon barrel with one hand while...
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    DIY from scratch ... possible? References?

    Per your question about "finding information about building Locks." Perhaps the books/pamphlets "Craft and Practice" by Kit Raenshear or "Selected Muzzleloading Gun Lock Patterns" by Bill Newton might be to you liking. Both about $5 from Track of the Wolf. But if your a novice just getting...
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    Tomahawk for a 13 yr old

    13 year old + Tomahawk = fallen Cherry Tree. Seems like a fimiliar story. Keep you eyes peeled. :grin: :grin:
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    While shooting my right hand flinter left handed..

    I don't worry about the resale value on my Left Hand rifles. I'm tell'n the relatives to bury them with me. :haha:
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    Gun displays

    Does your gun rack made of Cedar Trees just lean agains the wall or is it parrallel to the dry wall and attached or fixed some way to keep it from tipping away from wall with the weight of the guns???
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