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    flint vs. percussion

    I am only doing holes in paper, just target shooting. As to accuracy a percussion can be worse than a flint lock and vice versa. As other before me pointed in their words out, you need a fast and reliable lock, and do not forget a good trigger. Than there is no real difference in the accuracy...
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    original NH built firearms

    :thumbsup: I wish I could be there. Very Very nice. Thank you for sharing the photos.
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    Greenhorn from New Hampshire

    :hatsoff: Welcome here, many great people here where you get the answers to your questions.
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    Maximum Powder Charge

    You can do with 10 grain Swiss Nr. 2 and 15 grain of "Weizen Gries" in a Rogers & Spencer at 25 m. Otherwise you figure range is what target shooters use and many are close to the 18 grain. You only need to hole paper and that does not require overkill power. I am not sure because I did not...
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    Philadelphia Derringer redone

    Hello Red-Wing, the kit is original from Spain, manufacturer is Ardesa. I bought that kit in 1985 or 1986 I believe, :hmm: don't remember exactly. As you say cast, that was what I thought about the breech plug. It was grey underneath and had many spots. Unfortunately, the pictures before...
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    Philadelphia Derringer redone

    It is done and I am The dismantled Derringer is shown here: Recommandations for Derringer redoe For browning I used Homer Dangler Barrel Brown and it took 5 days. The browning of breech plug and barrel is different in clour ind smothness. Not quite clera why but it might be, that breech...
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    Recommendations for redoe of Derringer kit

    hot dog bun front Not enough english knowledge on my side I fear. :v Hope I'll get ready on Sunday and show you what it is than. Browning was a very intersting adventure. Seems as if the breech plug and the barrel are of different material but not nickle / chrom plated. That was the...
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    Does ballistol always stink ?

    That is a very good one. Many thanks for letting me laugh out loud. :v :surrender: :thumbsup:
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    Recommendations for redoe of Derringer kit

    :hmm: The question of stain or the colour remians difficult. Still time to decide. :hatsoff: Thank you very much to all of you for kind response. The trigger is ok, only little pull necessary if the small spring is in the right position. As stain I do have honey maple and walnut. As I get a...
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    New Hawken......

    :v Not as good as hoped. Wrong time of the day, sun is shining through the windows at 7 PM. Only four photos remain which I think can be posted. Hope they serve their intnded purpose. Here they are:
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    New Hawken......

    :surrender: :v :redface: Thanks for pointing out. May be I need new glasses. I have mixed it up with the Tryon. To my eye it seems that they have used similar, perhaps identical shaped parts on both rifles like butt plate, trigger, general form of the half stock. The lock plate is...
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    Recommendations for redoe of Derringer kit

    :thumbsup: Getting more difficult with every post to stick to my decision. Well, I ordered a second kit just to have a pair of them and they will be different. This kit and the new ordered is made by Ardesa and was and is I think you can say cheap. I have polished mighty long to get the...
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    New Hawken......

    :thumbsup: Nice pictures. That is a good rifle, I have the one in .45 and shooting for many years now. It was my first bp rifle ever.
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    Small flintlock pistols?

    I am not aware of such locks but perhaps the Pedersoli percussion box lock for the Liegi Derringer might serve as a starting point?
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    Recommendations for redoe of Derringer kit

    :thumbsup: You are right, they are fun to shoot. Thnak you for your comments and sharing the photos, I give a try for honey maple and brown with option for black, when brown is not what I hope for. When finished, I show you.
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    Recommendations for redoe of Derringer kit

    :hatsoff: Thank you very much for your kind advice. Well, the choices are staying difficult to say. :hmm: I should have included in the original posting, what would historically be more correct? Brown barrel, blue, black ? As the stock is beech, walnut stain seems not appropiate to me. Is...
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    Recommendations for redoe of Derringer kit

    I want to ask for your recomendations and advice for a redoe of a Philadelphia Derringer kit. It is along time since a once tried my hand on this kit and your suggestions are hartly welcomed. My old assembly of the kit is no longer satisfying and I want to redoe it with the hope, to get it a...
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    Need a bit of advice

    You can use it to ban another category of wepaons if you need a reason above the simple statement that muzzle loaders are banned which is not enough. It does not matter that the argumentation for a ban in such way is :youcrazy: :barf:
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    Need a bit of advice

    :hatsoff: But real and dangerous to us citizens. :cursing:
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    One that Grand Dad built

    :hatsoff: Hope you will stay some decades longer with us and keep the tradition of bp and shooting muzzle loaders alive. Hey, the old ones like you pass tradition to us young ones and teach us. :grin: :v
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