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    Price of Goex

    At the two shops that still sell black powder here in Little Rock, the price is $19.95 per pound, plus 9.5% state and local sales tax. Tom
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    1842 Springfield .69

    I've had one for a little more than 8 years, now... I use it mostly for re-enacting, but have taken it out to the range for live fire with both round ball, buck & ball, and buckshot. I make my cartridges per the old 1840 Odnance manual, so it's 110 grains of FFFg, a .648 round ball, and three...
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    Buck & Ball load

    Buck and ball was the standard load for smoothbore muskets in the U.S. Army, as well as the Confederate. The cartridges were formed by rolling the tube, twisting and tying off one end, then placing three .31 cal. round balls in the end of the tube and tying a half hitch between the balls and...
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    rkansas

    The Arkansas Muzzle-Loading Association gathers at its range near Hattieville (about 12 miles east of Morrilton) on the second weekend of each month for a weekend get-together and Sunday morning Shootin' match... the next scheduled match is June 10, a blanket shoot on "novelty" targets...
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    Live volley firing-virgin no longer!

    Pert near all the tactics manuals of the time called for firing from two, or even three ranks. Two raks was the standard all the way from von Steuben's "Blue Book" through Upton's post-CW revisions to the Infantry Tactics, though when the companies numbered 70 men or more, they formed line of...
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    1861 springfield ramrod question??

    Left to right there are the ball screw, the wiper, the drift punches, and the mainspring vise.
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    1842 smoothbore questions

    Depends... shooting on the range for accuracy, you'll want to go to patched round ball, and the suggestions made so far are all good ones. If you want to replicate the military load, the standard was "buck & ball", a .650 round ball paired off with three #1 buckshot and backed by 110 grains of...
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    1861 springfield ramrod question??

    The threads are there for attaching the wiper (used as a patch/cleaning jag as well as to fish small foreign objects from the bore) and the ball screw. These were standard items issued to the troops with the weapon, along with a combination screwdriver and nipple wrench, a cone pick, and a...
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    New Model Pocket .31 Caliber Steel Frame Pistol

    If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's the Uberti repro of the Colt Model 1849 pocket pistol. Very nice little piece, and a good shooter. Mr. Sam made and sold more of these little companions than any other handgun he made (more than a quarter million). It worked so well that a couple of...
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    Severly leading a bore maybe with wheel weights??

    Depends whether you're shooting round ball or cast bullets. With RB, the patch keeps the bore from leading up, but with the cast bullet, friction + heat will lead to leading... Tom
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