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    Felt wad idea

    I have punched thousands of wads out of old felt hats. Cowboy hats used to be near fee in thrift shops. Soak them in deer tallow and punch them out, or punch dry. for a shotgun, I'd maybe use 3 thicknesses. Works well. A mate gave me a stack of off-cuts when they are trimming new hats to size...
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    Matchlock long

    Double post somehow!
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    Matchlock long

    Colm That's wonderful! More koftgari present than I would have hoped! A couple of my barrels have bands or sections of such, but not as much as this. Can you do a side by side picture for us? How it was and how it is after a rub over? It's not etching per se, the surface is straited with tiny...
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    Hershel House Passed Tonight

    Not made a gun for a few years now, but have the yen to make another Woodbury style Southern squirrel rifle in memory of Hershel.
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    India Torador Matchlock Wall Gun

    Rick, Some of these appear to have a thinner barrel wall right at the breech, going by feel!
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    Matchlock long

    Mary did have a revolver old sport, but never had to use it. I think I am right in saying she once pointed it at a porter who became too familiar, and decorum was restored.
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    Proper metal finish for matchlock

    Tob, Was it you recently posted a detail from the Crusifiction, with the blued early tinder-lock? Also yes, one of Michael's earliest button locks was also blued. This is dragged out through it coming to mind as I ponder along!
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    Matchlock long

    Mind- set when shooting is very important as you say, Ruyard!
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    Proper metal finish for matchlock

    Tob, That breech loading mint example I posted somewhere here, was a brilliant fire blue job. (Wheellock and early) You are quite correct on armour being blued in the 1400's if not earlier so was nothing new. Henry V111 armour was treated in this manner, but of course first half of 16th C...
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    India Torador Matchlock Wall Gun

    Rick, The info you seek will be in Lord Eggerton's book. I recall reading it there.
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    India Torador Matchlock Wall Gun

    Rick, Thinking about these barrels being so badly pitted, it made me wonder if a lot of them are older than we thought and re used? What made me think of this is that if we go look at the guns of Henry V111 in the Royal Armouries, they are as rough as hell. Rusty and pitted to death in many...
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    Chopped Flintlocks. How early?

    Trade guns have been found on the prairie east of us, lost likely in buffalo running. (flintlock) The last one I saw had a barrel about 18 or 20 " They did not come that way, but were cut for buffalo running. Up here, a good few hide scrapers were made from the chopped off part of the gun...
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    English matchlock, heres where Im at so far.

    Looks a good job by what I can see, Sidney!
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    Matchlock long

    You will have noticed no swiveling pan cover Colm. Some never used one, and the powder was pressed into the bottom of the pan and stuck. Some had roughened pans to help hold the powder in. Others though, had a cover that slipped on sideways, so it fitted under the pan as well as over. Yours...
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    Matchlock long

    Twisted I think Sam, but pics hurt my eyes!
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    Matchlock long

    Welcome to the forum Colm. Indian torador, (various spellings!) Rajasthan I believe. These are often very long barreled. Bores are invariably Rough! Very interesting guns. I have a couple with barrels in the 52 inch bracket. The one you show has a very slim stock, although that is not unusual...
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    Revoling wheellock pistol

    Mle, I cant think where anyone said they Were standard cavalry equipment. Caracole became standard cavalry drill as you say.....
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    Yippee! Found a date for the early lever or trigger-type Matchlock mechanism!

    So hard to say on an artists rendition Tob. The lower one has the sliding collar on the serpent we see on some from the fist part of the 1500's. I could be wrong, but 'feel' that the fist snap locks had the button instead of a trigger. Whether this was the first type all over Europe I do...
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    Yippee! Found a date for the early lever or trigger-type Matchlock mechanism!

    Duh! Thank you for the reminder, Tob!
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    Do you shoot old "Originals"?

    That's a bonny gun, Mulebrain!
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