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    Army smoothbore

    Hi I just got my hands on a old 1815-49 Swedish musket i was was planing on using as a shootgun (someone else also thought that was the vay to go senes it was still loaded when i got it)If it checkes out all right, was planning on holding the charges on the low side. It would be a 12ga (18,55mm...
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    Paper patch How?

    Hi I was woundring what sort of paper to use, if i go one or two times around the bullet and where i can find a sorce for the right paper. I have this old army rifle that was made to shoot mine bullets problem is the cal whitch is .71 and the largest mould i have found is .69. Think it is...
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    Load for 24 shootgun

    Hello I am trying to get a old workhorse back in busines and having found little in form of loading data so i was hoping that someone out there has some info and are willing to share. The gun is a single barell , percussion, cal 24 factory made sometimes around mid 1800. What i would like to...
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    Landed an original 3-band Enfield

    Hi Heatseeker64 It is a beautifull rifle you got there and it sure looks good on the wall. A word word of caution, a freind of my also had some of his rifles on the wall whit bayonets on them untill one day when a guest slammed the front door hard enough to make one fall dovwn, the bayonet...
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    Swedish 1845-54 rifle

    Hi TANSTAAFL The stock is made of birch
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    Swedish 1845-54 rifle

    Well the book i got the load from did say that the rifle had a strong recoil :grin: . If a can get around whit a lesser charge i will most certinely do that. But i think that the bullet will need a good bumping to engage the rifeling but 50gr sounds as a good start. By the way there are some...
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    Swedish 1845-54 rifle

    Well what a day another thing learned!! Hope you like the picatures. Let me know if i missed some angel of importanse.
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    Swedish 1845-54 rifle

    Hi I am working on the picatures it's only that my computor and i don't always see eye to eye :grin: It is most probably made in sweden,(by Husqvarna or Carl Gusaf) in 1845 it was decided to adopt the mine system and the result was that they took the old 1840 musket and cut grooves in them...
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    Swedish 1845-54 rifle

    Hi pappa bear I will try it and hope it will work out nicely, but as i have noticed things in my life don't always do that.Anyway the originl bullet was .695 (or so they say) 772gr over 95gr bp. I figuerd i could use some grindingpaste and a drill to enlarge the mould some.
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    Swedish 1845-54 rifle

    Went down to a friend who is a gunsmith to give it a good examination and it seems i have had some good luck becuse the barell was in wery good condition exept a small dent which we don't think will be harmfull (fingers crossed). So now it was of in serch for a bulletmould , not the easyiest...
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    Introduction from sweden

    Thank you all for the varm welcome
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    Introduction from sweden

    Hi i am Math and i live in the middle part of sweden and i have just discoverd this site and sense i have always loved the old guns i thought this might be something for me. I have hunted ever sense it was leagel for me to do soo and the rest of my spare time is fild whit shooting almost...
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