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  1. tenngun

    Sylvan Hart

    Didn’t recognize the name but I do recall a skinner in Idaho that was in some stories I had read I recall a photo of him on a home made rifeling machine making his own rifles
  2. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    And those failures are shooter not barrel I’ve been shooting unproofed guns almost fifty years, I reckon I’m safe enough, as long as I’m safe enough
  3. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    All the evidence is that cared for and loaded properly even double or triple loaded are completely safe
  4. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    I wonder about safety on differnt barrel types. When I moved to Arkansas .40 was the minimum to hunt deer with, I had a .54 A .54 even with a moderate load is more powerful then a .40 loaded hot. Yet lots of deer turned French with a well placed .40 ball. One shot quickly dead deer A .54 is a...
  5. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    Relatively few, and I bet poor care and poor loads was the cause of failure then…as today
  6. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    11 bang bang did testing with a DOM barrel in .62 They shot increasing loads starting with 200 grains 1F. Increase charges to 800 grains and one ball without mishap. Atlast using 1040 grains and two ball the barrel failed. Never use a DOM barrel if you plan on using a thousand grains and two...
  7. tenngun

    Why are smokepoles so awesome?

    I always loved old stuff. Something about simple technology excites me. I love old sailing ships, and would love to have a model t Everything about the ml period, from cooking to construction just is fascinating for me My dad grew up on a farm during the depression and grandfather was a...
  8. tenngun

    Why are smokepoles so awesome?

    I always loved old stuff. Something about simple technology excites me. I love old sailing ships, and would love to have a model t Everything about the ml period, from cooking to construction just is fascinating for me My dad grew up on a farm during the depression and grandfather was a...
  9. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    Sad, but back in the day they butchered guns a lot
  10. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    Sure make you wonder how for six centuries they didn’t blow up every gun they made before the science of metallurgy was born
  11. tenngun

    New to Muzzleloaders!

    Welcome from Missouri I would recommend you find a club. I started in the 1970s and clubs were everywhere Today not so much, you may look at a bit of drive to one, but you’ll be more popular then the new girl in school and all the boys gathered round. There is nothing like a newbe at a club and...
  12. tenngun

    Ammunition for a muzzleloader.

    What’s accuracy mean? A rifle will cloverleaf tat that range, and a smoothie several inches, so a rifle is far more accurate shooting the x, but if Bambi at sixty yards there is no difference to the shooter, or to Bambi, the guns are shooting equal accurate
  13. tenngun

    Kibler Brown Bess?

    I voted no simply because I have an 11 bore and though I love besses I don’t really want one. My limited resources would go toward something else beside a bess
  14. tenngun

    How Indian flintlocks are made

    I cook at voo and ain’t never got sick. I ate in little **** roach cafe in Tiajuna and San and Ellis's place in Tuba Cityf Arizona Lots of street vender in the Philippines Good eats all
  15. tenngun

    69 Round Ball

    A .69 smooth will need a ball about .667 or smaller down to .64- for paper cartridge Track handles that sive too Lee might make one that big, Lyman are about a hundred bucks for mould and handles are separate. Buffalo arms and Roto metal sells lead
  16. tenngun

    How Indian flintlocks are made

    No, though I believe they import from many of the same sources. I can tell you Loyalist arms gives as great a customer service as one could ask for, but I’ve heard complaints about Middlesex about very slow and unreliable service. I have considered buying from them as they have some great...
  17. tenngun

    A fowler for round ball accuracy

    My smooth rifle in 28 bore, great for deer would be tough to shoot the flying with
  18. tenngun

    A fowler for round ball accuracy

    I know Track used to have fowler kits or trade gun kits where they used the same barrel in 20, 24, and 28 bore. If you had one of these in a 28 you would have very thick fowler style barrel
  19. tenngun

    How Did They Carry Their Rifle

    What’s shown in paintings is in a sling on the back or across the front. But you didn’t trap from horseback and they moved in groups. In foot it looks like in hand. When setting traps on of millers paintings show rifle on the bank while guy is putting his set, friend near by. One of millers...
  20. tenngun

    How Indian flintlocks are made

    During the westren fur trade a Hawken sold for about $25, Leman Trade gun $14, later 12.50. Trade fusils about $8. Today the price of an Indian gun is in the price range of tge cheap guns of the old days, as a custom rifle is in one months pay, like a Hawken, and a El Cheapo about a weeks pay...
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