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    Pictures of hunting wheellocks.

    The green tinted bone/staghorn featured in discussions in the FB group about matchlocks and wheellocks. No-one had the good info. It sure looks lovely as a detail colour on inlaid crossbows or wheellocks. I WANT to be a builder but run out of puff on projects and end up tiling bathrooms or...
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    Pictures of hunting wheellocks.

    Thats why they named the band Three Dog Night I guess... good to have friend to trust on cold nights. I bought a pair of antlers to do inlays but they are very grey. Not nice at all. From Bolek's posts I think fresh cowbone might be nicer looking!
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    Pictures of hunting wheellocks.

    Beautiful rifle!
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    Bolek is running a course on building wheellocks.

    I signed up. The cost is reasonable I think. He supplies a newly-created digital set of plans and a private Facebook forum for participants. To work from Polish to English, his son is translating. The plans are designed to help understand the works and scale dimensions from proportion...
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    Operating model cannon - can we use old gunners' techniques?

    My club shoot small cannons as part of our muzzleloading competition. Some are competitive, some less so. Forum member heelerau will recognise these characters! I don't have a tube yet. But I would like to add something besides shooting scores on 25m targets. I want to understand the practice...
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    Questions about a Civil War Springfield Rifle shortened to look like a M1842

    Perhaps its from a movie armoury, or a Bannerman's item assembled from spares. Check this out: https://www.guns.com/news/2015/11/07/bannermans-legacy-ultimate-army-navy-store
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    Documentation of the construction of my first dueling pistol box

    Nice work! The form looks bandsawn from solid wood. Could you show us how you achieve the turn on the edge of the fabric lining please?
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    Good questions! -I suspect I did not notice accuracy getting worse until real outliers came up, because I am shooting many different guns in different matches and had not benched this rifle for a few years. Perception is potentially clouded. - Here are some grabs from my endoscope down the...
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    Great info thanks Howard! I am not that confident in my lube - I was using soluble oil and detergent in water, and then Ballistol in water. Minie grease was no improvement. The water is great for softening fouling and in the past I was able to keep shooting several cards of 13 shots without...
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    CVA 50 cal. as shotgun

    I was thinking of using an angle grinder.
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    CVA 50 cal. as shotgun

    Come to think of it, boring the damn thing out would improve mine.
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    Hi all, new member with an interest for wheellocks

    Welcome! I can't afford Bolek's work, unfortunately. My impression is that his locks will run like a Swiss watch.
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    Yep. I use the micrometer, and .013 to .016 is where they fall before I choose to try them. Powder is now WANO PPP, which I have used for years but had recently used 2 cans of Pyrodex. However from memory the rifle seemed to work better with PP than PPP - less fouling. I am going into the...
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    I think you are probably right.
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    No, the new materials were not washed. However the hi-vis shirt was well secondhand so many times washed! The endoscope was to get a look at the bore. I suspect pitting further down, but cleaning between shots it wasn't grabbing. I have been shooting this rifle maybe 10 years, and never got a...
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    Next actions: I ordered pre-cut patches from a distant BP dealer. I didn't question closely on price and I am now out $60 plus pp for four bags of 100 patches!
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    Well I have tried several more things. Weighed all balls and removed outliers from 3 standard deviations. Rattled the balls in a bottle with water and detergent to obliterate sprue lines. Bought an endoscope and took pictures down the bore, but it wont focus on the rifling. Darn it! Recovered...
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    Question on seeeing down the barrel

    I bought the endoscope, and it is a good unit BUT it doesn't focus on the rifling. Brown fuzz is all I see, and a sharp image of flat breechplug end when I get there. Anyone heard any tips for getting them to work?
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    Help a newbie with misfirng caps

    Absolutely! Not just soot but actual fired caps can stack up in the hammer nose and cause a cushioned blow. The other most likely reason is that the caps' fit is cushioning the blow. #11 caps should go off whatever the fit with a heavy hammer blow, so the other possibility is that like a...
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    CVA 50 cal. as shotgun

    Plenty of rabbits were taken with .410 shotguns. I can see why you might want to try this, but if its safe to use ball on your land that's the way to go.
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