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  1. tenngun

    Who among us are PIPE smokers?

    ‘’I have to skip smoking tomorrow’ One thing I note is the lack of need to smoke that comes to cigarette smokers you don’t see in pipe smokers. I normally smoke at breakfast. I work nights and on my days off flip schedules. I get up about 6 am, have breakfast, smoke two bowls, take my dog for...
  2. tenngun

    Raw wool instead of flax tow

    The only question I would have about using raw wool would be the source. Wool was salable where as tow was a waste product, and there was Spanish moss, grass, worn out cloth ect available. Howsomever we read of Boone buying the best Irish linen for patching. And small shot was sold on the...
  3. tenngun

    What to do woth patches when cutting at the muzzle?

    I mostly use precut, however the best idea I think I saw was tied in a simple half knot on the strap. And slid up and down the strap as needed
  4. tenngun

    Newspaper wads.

    In a 20 bore I use brown or packing paper, 2x1” folded and run down This was an old style. I learned it from Dualist 54, and it’s the best I’ve found
  5. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    We might call it a short starter today. Watching its use on the cap and ball channel it was like that. Cases pistols in the eighteenth century were fitted with a loading hammer that looked like a hammer style ball starter
  6. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    He is recorded as to buying the best two hundred thread count Irish linen
  7. tenngun

    Priming powder for flintlock

    our op dex was made to be sold in stores with out the risk of black powder. Black has to be kept in a safe in a public store. The ignition for black powder is about 350f Pyrodex is almost twice as high. I hot cap sets it off with no problem, but the flash in the pan just isn’t high enough...
  8. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    Butt trap Trap in that sense being an excavated area covered with a door
  9. tenngun

    Never make that again

    Diced onions sautéed in olive oil till just starting to brown. Then diced green pepper. As its edges brown add the meat. Beef stew may salt pepper and created in flour. Brown. Then replace the pot with a little wine, add broth veggies and a bundle of herbs. When near done remove a little broth...
  10. tenngun

    Need to get rust out of my bore

    Thought you had several answers Get grinding compound at an auto parts store. Smear on a patch and wipe Or 0000 steel wool
  11. tenngun

    Need to get rust out of my Bore

    Try grinding compound on a patch
  12. tenngun

    WANTED Tow Worm

    Try Callahans bag moulds. He has several styles of tow worms and ball screws that are period correct
  13. tenngun

    Converting to half-stock. Worth it for historical value?

    Although halfs were the most popular by far, we have lots of old west photos showing full stock in use next to guys with sharps and Winchesters SMR were made well through the 1930sand 40s on full stocks, and trade guns would be full stock through the 1950s
  14. tenngun

    Origins of chili con carne

    Our earliest recipes for chille is meat and chilies only
  15. tenngun

    Osage Orange for ramrods?

    Our go to is hickory but ash and elm were both traditional If a rod is used correctly even good dowels can work. Willow and dogwood can be used too. The trick is grasp the rod just a few inches above the muzzle so it doesn’t get a place to bend and break.
  16. tenngun

    WITHDRAWN Men's Moccasins Size 10

    Look very much like New Mexico shoes
  17. tenngun

    Cleaning Frontier Firearms

    I would have to wonder how many were put up dirty on the last time, and then ignored in the century after.
  18. tenngun

    Cleaning Frontier Firearms

    Guns were normally sold with mould, tow screw and ball screw, often a turn screw
  19. tenngun

    Cleaning Frontier Firearms

    Joe Meek told a story about his first trip to the mountains and how Sublett passed a guy whose gun was dirty and Sublett told him to clean it. Later Sublett saw him with a still uncleaned gun and again told him to clean it. On the third time he saw it still dirty and asked Meek if he could clean...
  20. tenngun

    Unknown Flintlock pistol

    Isn’t that a CVA’tower pistol’ from the 1970? I had one and it shot well Just goofy looking compared to historical guns You can get fuse from Dixie and set it off from a distance,
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