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    Poorly Assembled Brown Bess Lock

    Being both gunmaker & reenactor I understand this casual view some reenactors have its often just part of the outfit like a hat or boots . I don.t condone it but what can we do ? Some I've recommended he throw the gun into a river But the environmental bods would object to that notion ...
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    Poorly Assembled Brown Bess Lock

    Since I have UNF ,UNC,WW, & BSF besides BA taps & dies I throw away any metric that has crept in having enough complications with the ones I do have if main failing is the manufacturers etch such fine details its a battle to read what they are . I never adopted metric' Bonepartes'...
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    Scottish Musket lock

    Dear Rick Banshees don't' spark' they wail.( Supposedly I never heard one.) Whatever the Moroccan's did the fine blown sand will grind any contact surface the only one I saw in a bedos or oasis dwellers home had its lock wrapped about with rag & haveing been through two days of sandstorm...
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    Scottish Musket lock

    Date wise the lock isn't any mid 17th more early 18th maybe ime looking too close but I have made enough early Scots to have some clues . What relationship it has to Spanish influences is hard to see. I would respectfully suggest you buy the inexpensive booklet on Scots arms put out by...
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    40 cal Lee REAL bullet molds? Anyone interested.

    I found the TC style 50 cal gave better shooting than a round patched ball being up against any sort of 'Black Powder rifle'in shoots I have no Quame's about using the more accurate conical . I found the short flat nosed deep grouved 58 bullet Lyman gave good results .So the 50 &...
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    Big Game Rifle

    I have used a very externally rusted but good bore rifle of 24 bore & found the belted ball best , Shot flatter loaded easier since only loose patched of felt or rolled ' 4x2 ' cleaning rag greased pitch of one in 60 inch its barrel being 30 "oct it was so long rusted you cant...
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    Big Game Rifle

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    UK Park Rifle

    Dear Jim your no' Pilgrim ' I have bowled a few Red Stags with my 50 cal flint if others fell to my 24 bore belted ball rifle .Not that UK even consider any Black powder rifle as fit for deer. The Damned ' Beer Talkers' are locked into a Foot Pounds MV 243 / 270 mindset. All' ****'. I...
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    UK Park Rifle

    Dear Old Dog It might turn up, we all sell goodies at times & mostly I've regretted all I sold but I remember them all I used hunting or had for range or just as examples . Generally fought shy of ' minty' ones preferring dog eared' old friends' I used . Regards Rudyard & Felt Wad for...
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    How old are ya?

    I know that feeling only in my case its shared by a lot of old war horses with too few younger people into the hobby. I joined the MLAGB as a Junior member in 1961 or 2 now ime 80 but still going strong . Rudyard
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    How old are ya?

    Good on you from Rudyard who been about the same time & likes archaic & ethnological stuff & now 80. Regards Rudyard Interesting unit of Dogs.. With out a crystal ball its a guessing game if we survive But we might have seen the best of it like much else in modern life ...
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    Question for the many builders about lock finish

    I've made patterns to sand cast yellow brass lock plates for the more archaic locks such as the Scots often used . But in general I don't think gunmakers had steel castings & certainly not the lost wax we have so common today . The forgings taken bright some might be blued but...
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    Hello from New Zealand

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    Hello from New Zealand

    Well its not really so impractical I've hunted days at a time with my snap matchlock but it is a challenge or more of a mind set , comparable to a bow Ide say . Its got a 54 rifled brl but has a 50 cal smooth brl for MLAIC type target matches . I once shot at a ' Mountain man 'shoot...
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    Hello from New Zealand

    Ola Y Que tal I think thats hello & who goes it . Did you use an escopeta ? Sounds like your keen next time your down pop in. I cant guide you much Ime a creaky 80 anos But could stear you to the likley places . Regards Rudyard
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    My latest daydream: A Kibler escopeta ...

    Well thankyou praise indeed. just an old shotgun barrel & the Algerian lock. Twas all done to set the original belt hook in appropriate setting . Cheers Rudyard
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    My latest daydream: A Kibler escopeta ...

    Dear Sam. You got me foxed I cant recall any such firm who made escopetas but that might not mean much. Only long Indian name I can think of would be Pecatonica not sure where their based Garrys Leather his son might know their Indiana based . Narraganset ? They where full of ideas sold...
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    Mango Wood For Pistol, Rifle, or Musket Stocks?

    I have a similar soler topee for Reenactments , & I once bought a Pith helmet on the Island of what was Equatorial ' Fernando Po' thinking it would be a great hitching gimmick once I reached Spain. But I think it put more off than the intended result. I had to hitch from Cadiz to Boulogne...
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    Rebuilding a 1728 French Musket

    Yes excellent work if its all in French you can still follow it . I ran two photo copes at Kinkos the original's being rare so ones a spare to sell . The Muskets Kranks/ Longstaff sold I had a lot to do with I don't recall any with Indian proofs nor especially quality stocks , I just...
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    Mango Wood For Pistol, Rifle, or Musket Stocks?

    I for one admire your thrift . Most any wood can make a stock. At first I was thinking of Mangrove wood chosen by Aboriginees to make boomerangs .' Mango' why not Ive stocked a lot in Mulberry tree which we always think a small bush as in" Here we go round the Mulberry bush " I once...
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