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    How many grains in a pound?

    Thank you for the history lesson. A few longstanding questions have been answered!
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    ID help please?

    Thank you. That is an extraordinary list. I will attempt to see if any still exist.
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    Mendi Kentucky Long Rifle question 2&3

    Thank you for the suggestion. I presume I will have to find on line, the pickings at the 4 gun stores around here are getting thin in the black powder dept. no too much interest these days they say.
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    Mendi Kentucky Long Rifle question 2&3

    Heat the complete barrel, then apply? When cooled, heat again? Just talked to my brother and we decided to use two propane torches to avoid over heating. Sound like what you are suggesting?
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    ID help please?

    Thanks for the insight. This started as a wall hanger and then took on a life of its own. We have the barrel really clean now, but the grooves aren’t well defined to my untrained eye. We used the borescope to see what might be possible. Now to find a place local and try it out.
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    Mendi Kentucky Long Rifle question 2&3

    Thanks to lots of help from here, and my brother’s gun experience I have a couple of pictures how it went back together. Forgive my ignorance, are the cotton wads or plugs you can fire as a “blank”? We thought to recolor the barrel brown. We bought Plum smething and it requires the barrel be...
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    ID help please?

    Wow! That is an interesting looking piece. Some sort of a boarding gun? Info for Mendi seems scarce. We did find an auction picture from 2 years ago, that is very similar to mine. Have you ever run across anyplace that had serial number information?
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    ID help please?

    Thank you for the lead on Mendi. This name hadn’t come up before. All the pictures of CVA I have seen today didn’t seem to quite match up. Went to three gun stores to find everything we need, new nipples, the tool, various cleaning rods and brushes.etc. Mendi was a winner, internet picture...
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    ID help please?

    Hi folks, I recently bought a muzzleloader. After getting it home I started some research. It appears to be a CVA, barrel says “Spain”, serial 39271. It says 45 Cal, and has another symbol I don’t recognise. We made a preliminary cleaning, used a boroscope and can see light through the cap...
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