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  1. tenngun

    Smooth bore metal finish

    Blue and French grey/in white was common. Brown was more of a nineteenth century thing and more of a southren thing Most originals today are brown owing to age/patina. Blueing was complex and most’ over the counter guns ‘ were just white. Ofcouse if not kept buffed they greyed.
  2. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    By the light of a full moon when none but the night critters are awake, Must work fast and cover the ground so that none may know you disturbed an eternal rest.
  3. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    Ozark legend, if you place a coffin nail in your gun it can’t be hexxed This was a big danger. You wife could hex your gun by tying a knot in her apron string Keep your wives happy but nail your gun The original trust but verify
  4. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    But…. Today if you buy the components to make one you only save a few bucks on the furniture A po’r boy ain’t too poor now
  5. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    We see this in the south, sometimes a toe plate but no butt plate. A bone or antler on the back of the comb, or even a nail added to to protect the butt when loading I saw one made with bent copper as a trigger guard, and a flat copper end plat at the muzzle instead of a cap.
  6. tenngun

    Kibler fowler - Has anyone shot round ball?

    A ball on top of a moderate charge of powder in 28-12 had more than enough power to drop any American game short of griz at a hundred yards. However I don’t believe any smoothie should be used that far. Not a power issue but grouping. I can hit a chest every shot at fifty yards. I miss a man...
  7. tenngun

    How Indian flintlocks are made

    Makes you go hmmm
  8. tenngun

    Painted Trade Gun

    I tried milk paint on mine but couldn’t get it to stick well. So I did cheat and use acrylic paint. Then oil on top, may have had something to do with the wood
  9. tenngun

    Ammunition for a muzzleloader.

    I like many often wondered if patching a ball in a smoothbore was done back in the day. General conclusion was it was a twentieth century thing. While looking for something else I came across a quote from an HBC officer named Levin. He mentioned patching a ball in a smoothbore in 1847 as common...
  10. tenngun

    Stock Finish Other Than "Brown"?

    I am too, however it’s historically correct on some types and times. And this guy had some good figure in it
  11. tenngun

    Stock Finish Other Than "Brown"?

    Paint was very common for guns in the seventeenth century Fell out of style in the eighteenth but still seen. My doglock cr 1710 style, and a photo of original federal style rifle in a blond finish
  12. tenngun

    Ammunition for a muzzleloader.

    It won’t fit with a patch, the top ring is supposed to slightly engrave at loading. You should lube the hollows. Round ball rifeling is hard on them as it’s so deep, and they don’t stabilize in slower twist well They were supposed to fit a shallower rifeling with a 1/48 twist. That twist was...
  13. tenngun

    help please with 50 cal smooth bore turkey load

    That may not be turkey legal Check game laws. Many states require a 20 bore for turkey If rifle is ok a ball would do to twenty yards for head shot, fifty if your willing to sacrifice a bit of breast
  14. tenngun

    In hot water?

    Most trappers were in a ‘brigade’, I doubt they kept a cold camp. The lone trapper living on jerky is mostly a myth.
  15. tenngun

    Pedersoli Brown Bess ?’s

    Few of us can afford a real copy, I know I can’t. The fact is the perdisoli is as close as most people can see
  16. tenngun

    Patch Box?

    I would suspect the oldest was worm, turn screw and tow or some such maybe an extra flint I don’t know when the term patch box came out. Old name is butt trap. The original meaning of trap being a excavated covered space, not necessarily used to trap something
  17. tenngun

    Weird eBay flintlock

    I was about to post North African post WW 1 trade Put it on a camel gun and play Rif or is it Raf I always get my rifraf confused
  18. tenngun

    Kibler Fowler vs Trade Gun

    How does the barrel know the differnce between 7/8 oz of shot and 7/8 Oz of ball If you run a fiber wad down on top of your powder is it going to be ‘looser’ then even a PRB?
  19. tenngun

    India Barrel Failure

    How are they better? Do they shoot straighter? No Are they safer? No, neither blows up Are they prettier, maybe, but that’s the eye of the beholder
  20. tenngun

    India Barrel Failure

    Steel comes in all sorts of grades, and one can do a job better than another. What’s a gun barrel need to do? What’s its job? 1) hold the force of the explosion while the projectile exits 2) send projectiles in one direction consistently shot to shot So x maker has better steel in a barrel...
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