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    I need to polish my bore!

    I have allways used this as a shotgun. Now a change to roundball. At 90 ffg the first two patches come out great. The rest are in shards. I shoot an 1842 Springfield that has always been acceptable with two wads of news print under shot and one above. I have cast a couple hundred .660 and lubed...
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    How many?

    One rifle, one shotgun. The Coach purse, I found at a flea market, hunting style, I was not allowed to keep. :)
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    1750 rifle finish

    I believe they turned up at muster with the worst fowler the family had. Expecting to be upgraded. Human nature is what it is.
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    Pictures of an interesting smoothbore

    Hi, I just noticed the octagon to round barrel. Your right, it will be like .71 cal. It looks like you have one like mine that was changed to tube lock using old parts. Mine has the pin and a single forward band that acts like a nose cap. You can see where they took off a ramrod guide and...
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    Pictures of an interesting smoothbore

    Austrian tube lock imported at the beginning of the civil war. The stock with cheekpiece is original. I have an 1842 that was converted with the bolster method aprox. .71 cal rifled. Great shotgun. Yours was most likely Union bought and sold surplus or battlefield pickup. Austrian muskets were...
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    Storage of Powders

    If it is stored loose it just flares up. Very dramatically with a whoosh!. All confined within a few feet of the one pound can or flask. Hair spray cans, ect. are more scary... Been in hundreds of house fires. I am just an old Fireman. The things going on when you are in a burning building/house...
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    First BP rifle.

    A "Garibaldi" .72 rifled musket from an antique store. My 15th birthday. I used newspaper and buckshot for the load. I had it rebarreled by a man named A. Peterson to .58. 40 yrs later I notice it's stock is marked to the Stonewall Brigade. The original barrel is somewhere around. I shot bottle...
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    Newbie but please still read.

    Advice. A used .58 Rem Zoave. Learn to shoot it. Have a lot of fun. Hit everything right where you wan't ( patched roundball). Go with minie if you wan't, you will have a choice. Black powder shooting is a skill and this is the best tool to learn it. I remember my Zoli from when I was 16 and...
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    Rifled musket as a big game gun

    Duane, I have an 1863 type 2, how did you site it in? If another post covers this could you lead me to it? Thanks, G.W.
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