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  1. M

    Tang sight

    Hi Rafsob It will be used for target shooting sense huntng whit bp is´t legal where i live. Yes it is a original and i know it might feel wrong to alter a original but they are not so rare and it is quit a lot of truble to get licenced to own a newly produced bp gun. so for me it is easier to...
  2. M

    Frizzenx

    Here is how i did when my frizzen no longer sparked: Made a airtight container from some pipe (i had accses to a lathe at the time) filled it whit leather scraps and the frizzen in the middle, then heated it untill itt was whitehot and then dunking it in water. Last i aneled the lower part so it...
  3. M

    Tang sight

    Yes a M/1860 Wrede i added a picature if someone is curious :grin: Regards Mathias
  4. M

    Tang sight

    I'm about to have a tang sight mounted on one of my rifles to take care of my problems whit sighting it in. (it is a orginal army rifle and the sights are way of for what i am shooting)And i would like to here if there are some shooter that uses them and what you think of them? Regards Mathias
  5. M

    Torch/Touchwood

    Well i didn't have to resort to having plates of porrigde out for the "tomten", but i stumbled over it when t was looking for some other stuff at my mothers and i can say it worked like a charm even tho it had been laying on the concrete floor for over a year, the striker had gone a bit rusty...
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    Torch/Touchwood

    I have been looking for my pouch whit tinder and steel for almost 2 weeks now an i don't seem to find it :( Must have been lost when i moved so i can't show some picatures of how i looks sorry Regards Mathias
  7. M

    Torch/Touchwood

    Yes soaking it in birchashlye (that is what you get when adding water to the ash, there is other recipies but this is the simplest) will make it easier to catch and hoald spark. After drying i just run it through my fingers to soften it. then i it is ready to use. Regards Mathias
  8. M

    Torch/Touchwood

    Well i don't know what the dfferens betveen the sort you would find in the us and the sort we have here in Sweden. But this is how i have been doing it. I use a band saw to cut the fungus in to 5mm strips and then let them soak in a mixture of birch ash and water a couple of days and then drying...
  9. M

    Making patch lube?

    Today i vent along and renderd my fat, first i cut it up in small pieces and put them in a double boiler, took forever. Then i poured it through a strain into a jar, got about 2cm of clear liquid. Was about to throw the remains but thought they looked likt there were more fat in them so i put...
  10. M

    Making patch lube?

    Thanks for the help :thumbsup: I have some free time over toomorrow so i will go ahead and try to rendeer my fat and let you know what happends. It looks like i get two products lard and oil i, what will the main use of the oil bee, too prevent rust, patch lube or other ? Math
  11. M

    Making patch lube?

    Hello Our moose season has begun here in sweden and i took some fat of one and now i would like to here from some folks how i go along and transform it into patch lube. I have never tried some thing like this befor so please be basic. Best regards and happy hunting math
  12. M

    Update from Sweden

    No i have a combi so i was sitting in the rear of my car, the shooting bench is located at 80 meters and they muust have had better eyes a 100 years ago becuse i sure cant get a good sight picature at that distance whit existing sights.I will have to do something about that any way sense it...
  13. M

    Update from Sweden

    Hi glad to hear she liked it here. I live in the middle of sweden about 100 kilometers north from Sunsvall. Mathias
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    Update from Sweden

    As some of you know by now i like our old army guns :grin: And thanks too all good advice and tips i have got from kind members of this forum i am starting too get some good grops at the range. I maild Jeff Tanner and got a .465 rb mould and some .015 patches and today i went to the range...
  15. M

    Can i have your thoughts on this ?

    I have had a look at Tanner's homepage and that looks wery promising. Unfortunantly those bullets on the picature are not mine but belongs to a museum. Talked to a man who used to have a similar rifle and he said that the bullets weighed betven 400 and 420 gr. I have measured the tvist of my...
  16. M

    Can i have your thoughts on this ?

    I must admit that it would be fun to be able to shoot an original style bullet. My boore measures .479 over the lands and .492 in the groves hope i got the names right but i think you will understand what i am meaning. It also has a what i think is calle a patent breech (the powder area is...
  17. M

    Can i have your thoughts on this ?

    That is a thought it could have been paper patched becuse i remember reading that the rifle was consider unworthy for fied use becuse it become dirty and hard to load too fast like after one shoot, so it was mostly used by snipers Mathias
  18. M

    Can i have your thoughts on this ?

    I have had a gunsmith that knows his way around old guns and he says it's ok to use. I agree that those driving bands looks wery thin. But what is strange is that this rifle was known for it's accurcy, it was used in matches long after the army switched to cartridge loaded guns as a side note i...
  19. M

    Can i have your thoughts on this ?

    Yes it is a flat based bullet whit no cavity.
  20. M

    Can i have your thoughts on this ?

    Hi I have been captiveted by our army rifles (swedish) and specially the M-1860 and now have i got a picature on original bullets curtusy to the Swedish army museum unfortunantly they didn't know the weight.But here are the measures they gave me and the picature. I would realy like to know what...
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