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  1. Dashing Leper

    Break Free CLP

    What sets CLP apart is the silicone it contains in microsuspension. It's not all that different from the stuff found in a pre-treated gun 'n rod rag.
  2. Dashing Leper

    Swapping Grip Frame

    The screws that attach the grip components to the frame itself are compatible between the Army and Navy grips. Only the screw at the bottom of the grip (typing the backstrap and triggerguard together) will be different, the Army using a wider screw head.
  3. Dashing Leper

    19th Century EDC Scenario

    More practical to carry a complete set of spare parts for your revolver, helpfully pre-assembled and loaded up.
  4. Dashing Leper

    19th Century EDC Scenario

    Obviously it's gonna be a Dragoon, the #1 preferred gun of teenage girls seeking vengeance the world over.
  5. Dashing Leper

    Prettiest Cap and Ball

    Mary Anne to the left, Ginger to the right.
  6. Dashing Leper

    Real Black Powder

    Triple Seven will not ignite readily from the flash of a side-firer and it's suggested you use a 5-grain charge of black powder in the chamber to set off any T7 charge you load into a side-firing caplock or flintlock longarm. And that advice isn't hearsay-- it's printed on the side of my can of...
  7. Dashing Leper

    Real Black Powder

    Pyrodex has a higher ignition point than classic black. Makes it safer to sell off store shelves, but also means it can be harder to ignite. Now, in a revolver where the cap fires straight into the chamber, you're going to have no problem setting off Pyrodex in most guns. It's a side-firer...
  8. Dashing Leper

    Trying to Identify this 1860 Army.

    Modern replicas aren't case-hardened, they're colored to look like case-hardening. Simply a wash of bluing solution over bright steel. Someone here merely took the coloring off the same way you'd take the bluing off: a vinegar bath. BTW: The 'CS' marking inside that square on the frame...
  9. Dashing Leper

    CAP AND BALL SLOW MOTION VIDEO

    The video I posted showed no gas leakage at the nipple (just sparks) and significant side blast at the gap.
  10. Dashing Leper

    Correcting Uberti Short Arbors?

    I have an Uberti 1860 Army made in 2019 that is the worst when it comes to short arbors: the gun would not wedge up at all until I glued in a shim. Over time the shim has 'broken in' and the gun still gets loose. Well, today I just got another Uberti 1860, this time a 3-screw civilian model...
  11. Dashing Leper

    CAP AND BALL SLOW MOTION VIDEO

    When you quote someone talking about barrel rise under recoil and then someone replies about barrel rise under recoil+blowback, you do not have the ground to get all indignant about how there'e no mention of chain fire going on.
  12. Dashing Leper

    CAP AND BALL SLOW MOTION VIDEO

    You have recoil, and then you have blowback. You get recoil soon as the ball gets rolling. You get blowback when the ball leaves the bore and the barrel pressure all escapes out the muzzle.
  13. Dashing Leper

    CAP AND BALL SLOW MOTION VIDEO

    If it's slo-mo video of 1860 Army revolvers you want, then that's what you get: Advance to the 6:40 mark if you want to see the guns firing. Every ignition spark is flying straight up, not out. As if the cutouts around the nipple have some role in deflecting the flash away from the other...
  14. Dashing Leper

    1lb =7,000. Or does it?

    1) Grains are a measure of weight. 7000 grains make up a pound. 2) If you still have the original packaging that came with your adjustable brass powder measure, it will say Calibrated For Black Powder on it. While you may be using the measure volumetrically, you're using a measure that was...
  15. Dashing Leper

    Cap jams

    A small post installed on top of the frame in the hammer's channel. If a cap were to stick to the face of the hammer, that stuck cap will hit the post and get raked off the hammer before it can go further back and fall into the action.
  16. Dashing Leper

    Powder granulation importance?

    Decades of thermal cycling are bound to break granules down and create a finer powder within the cartridge as a result. Black powder rocket motors have a prescribed shelf/service life because the cycle of day/night heating/cooling eventually creates cracks that promote faster burning of the...
  17. Dashing Leper

    What is the big barrel in the Le Mat used for

    Found that magazine ad (Civil War Times, December 1987) and it's the same American Historical Foundation commemorative for Jeb Stuart. A firing blackpowder replica they were selling for $2200 back in 1987 dollars. Today they're still trying to sell them for over three grand.
  18. Dashing Leper

    What is the big barrel in the Le Mat used for

    A cursory search for "gold engraved Lemat" turned up an American Historical Foundation website selling the J.E.B. Stuart commemorative LeMat from that magazine I saw so long ago. It's advertised as a 9-shot .44 with a .65 grapeshot (approx. 18-gauge). Then again, this is hardly a practical...
  19. Dashing Leper

    What is the big barrel in the Le Mat used for

    First time I learned about the LeMat was a sales advert for a gold-engraved replica in a Civil War Magazine issue some thirty years ago. It purported the shotgun barrel fired a .65 grapeshot round and included a gold-plated example for the display (gold-plated revolver shot as well).
  20. Dashing Leper

    Brass framed Colts

    Actual combat, perhaps? Or something far less wacky, like 'not intended for hunting'.
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