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    Labeled Diagram of a Lock by L&R.

    He means the 'Tumbler pin' that holds the' ****' needn't be over tightened . translated (. Expecting brick bats for using the gun trade terms). ' bolts ' for lock & tang are called ' side nails' & ' tang nails' there are no internal' screws' they are 'Pins' respectively . Rudyard the...
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    18 Guage double rifle.

    Dear TMW The shot gun load was fine. the 300 yards isnt too likley to be for a ball But it could be. What pitch is the rifling ? Forsythe advocated heavy charges & slow pitch but in bigger bores ..He was based in the jungles of South India and had Lots of time to...
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    Making a Pattern 1756 Long Land British Musket

    Good on you Sam the vinegar idea is so useful. Re rod holes I know nothing of the kit ones but I line up to drill towards the side opposite the Lock then If it wanderers its less likely to impede the lock inlet . Fort Hill & North Star had the routed channels but I inlayed a strip to fill...
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    18 Guage double rifle.

    Williams & Powell where Liverpool makers my 1859 Volunteer Enfield is from them various addresses up to 1870 Looks a nice rifle could be for a conical or ball . No case ? if it has a cap box the load might be engraved under the lid , what do sights say ? most big game guns are for short...
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    Hello everyone!

    Dear Egebozk Ime from new Zealand but I have hitchhiked through Turkey in 1966 Istanbul to Adana via Eshikir then to van & out by Irun? Persian border and reached Tabriz long haul boter with Kurds but that traveling only words i recall was ' Teshicush i dirum ' & ' Byrak' ?, '...
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    Ottoman Guns

    Dear Rick here is the desired pic of lock complete with my gray hair ! very like the Revel plastic kits .I hoped ide get just memory lane stuff was one I had as .Well Ime still a Boy just 70 years boy later . Regards Rudyard Dear Rick that,s good to know have a similar lock but...
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    Making a Rev War Period British Carbine

    Dear Dave yes thats the 1760 Elliot same as I made only mine was rifled & I fitted a steel rod its no59 of 1984 the l Inf is no166 of 2008. & the conjectoral R Foresters was 169 of 2008 the ' Tower Rifle' being 1985 or 6 The Lawrences E, I, Coy musket being about that time its in the...
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    Making a Rev War Period British Carbine

    Well I based my 'Conjectural Royal Foresters' Going on the examples in De Witts booklet' Pattern Dates 'being' Royal 'like the' Blues'Carbine I went with the shell carved tang apron the later pattern clearly different but It was " My Conjectural" blind attempt ,Its a nice Carbine...
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    Ottoman Guns

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    Ottoman Guns

    Dear Rick Yes the very same sort & shape just took a pic with tapemeasure to get size
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    Making a Rev War Period British Carbine

    Wow Hope all received OK Ile E to BC s post as he sought pics of pistols Rudyard
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    Making a Rev War Period British Carbine

    Yes what the academics believe & what a gunmaker' READS' with the gun in his hand can differ I went by the little book De Witt Bailey put out & the other book covering the then uncertain First Pattern Royal Foresters .A late friend had one it was rifled up and I think Dublin Castle .By...
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    J goodoien barrel

    Jim Goodoin was a New York Stated maker did nice work I hear you! Regard s Rudyard in same boat !
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    Ottoman Guns

    Dear Rick Yes its for a Greek/Albanian sort 3&1/4"long the sort that had faint engraving but I do'nt need the engravings . They seem all very alike I got mine off a Blanket at a Rendezvous at Shawnee State Forest its for that long unfinished piece I illustrated on the Number 1 '...
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    New member intro

    Great white north where ? Yucon ? with a dog like that youle fit right in. Regards Rudyard
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    Building a British Pattern 1800 Rifle (Baker)

    Well' someone' was wrong all Baker claimed was his rifling' and he was not back wards in coming forwards, a latter day Greener in that respect Rudyard Latter back from a shoot shot my snap matchlock of 54 rifled .axe marks an all . . Yes re Bakers Ime sure the false breech would be...
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    Making a Rev War Period British Carbine

    The'Catch on the nose is the standard Elliot' I Think they are post revolt war closer to Napolionic
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    Ottoman Guns

    Well that makes sense. green gardens being esteemed in a dry land , Quite how they got the green to soak in puzzles' me .Do you know what acids were used to bring out the contrasting deep 'Figure ' in a Damascus Barrel Ime thinking Sulfuric asid but perhaps there are fruit dyes...
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    Asking for help with a Rifle Shoppe Baker Rifle: groups at 50 yards have become dreadful.

    My post went in a wrong spot but it matters not. All the scientific stuff has me lost . Not that I question it but I cant grasp nor add to the science . Rudyard
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    Looking for someone who can Replicate, Cast, and or Locate a "Hinged, Brass, Conch Shaped/Seashell Shaped" circa 1850's Patch Box Cover/Lid.

    If you borrow or make a wooden pattern any Yellow brass founder will run you one. if few today like to run yellow brass because of the fumes . bronze they like but its harder to file up use NEW files as used ones wont cut as well . There where a lot of continental guns had the shell like...
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