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    Pedersoli Bess Carbine?

    Water worked for a LONG time for cleaning for those who came before us. I used nothing but water and tow on my Bess carbine, and it was clean and shiny when I traded for a fusil. The outside looked like heck, since it was a "militia gun", but the inside was clean. I'll be getting...
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    Loading Block Wood

    I use scrap walnut. Looks good, and holds up well enough. I have a block of curly maple I may try as well, when I get the gumption to. Don't use one that often.
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    Cleaning my Flintlock Rifle

    Bull. those who came before us didn't have access to solvents and the like, and they depended on their guns for their lives and livelihoods. Water works FINE. Hot water is better, because it DOES heat up the barrel, making the residue evaporate faster, but cold water works. :results: :m2c...
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    How to clean barrel in the field on a brown bess?

    Yep, but didn't work worth a damn on the metal rod that came on my Pedersoli. :D Fell right off of there. For my tulle, I used a simple twisted wire, until the GoodWife bought me a hand turned worm that threads on to the ramrod tip. Much purtier, but honestly not much more efficient...
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    How to clean barrel in the field on a brown bess?

    Smiling Fox Forge sells a tow worm that is threaded specifically to fit the threads on the Pedersoli ram rod. One of those, and mess of tow, and you are good to go. I bought mine a while back, I dimly recall it being about 25$
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    traditions flinter

    Touch hole was too low, and too small. Frizzen spring was WAY too stiff, and the geometry of the cock was wrong. Until I knapped some of my own, the flints were digging in too deep. In either case, I went through a lot of flints from the stiff frizzen. Spark was VERY weak, and not...
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    What Size Mould for a 2nd Short Land Bess?

    I think folks make this more complicated than necessary some times. At a smoothbore shoot a couple of years ago, we had plate sized paper targets at 25 yards. The scenario was defense of the fort. You had 5 minutes to get as many shots into the paper as possible. The guy who won was...
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    Brown Bess Questions

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    Correct period for gun?

    Post 1812, Rocky Mountain Fur Trade era.
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    What Size Mould for a 2nd Short Land Bess?

    My Pedersoli bess worked best with .715 if I was patching, and .690 if I was loading cartridges. .735 with a very thin patch might work, but I think you'd risk burn through with that thin a patch. For patch, I used Walmart pillow ticking. Loaded well, even after fouling, as long as the...
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    Possibles bag

    Depends on the weapon. For my fusil, hemp canvas bag, containing a pouch with 10 ball, small leather wallet with 3 flints, tow-worm and handforged turn screw. bundle of tow, small roll of ticking. Tin of grease. Small bag holding about 5 shots worth of shot, and wadding. Powder measure...
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    What is best flintlock flush kit?

    Same here. Your mileage may vary, but I just don't see the logic in spending a bunch of money on something you don't really need, and folks made do with much less, for a LONG time. And many of those guns are still around, and still in good shape. Field cleaning is with tow, wrapped...
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