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    1/10 scale 1779 - 24 pounder build

    That is beautiful work. :hatsoff: Well done.
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    You Know You're A Traditional Muzzleloading Gun Nut When...

    Indeed! 56 bore,38 bore, 16 bore - numbers that have intrinsic meaning. Those curious decimal inches will never catch on, because 13/64" just makes sense.
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    Where'd The Ball Go?

    Just get on paper at several distances to check the sighting. Most BP revolvers are sighted to hit at inappropriate distances - eg 75m for US Army types. That means at 25m-50m they go over the top of the target unless you modify the sights or hold for the groin. At 25 feet, that same sighting...
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    Dueling Pistols- Help

    I don't pretend to great knowledge, but understand it to be as follows. Smoothbore (sometimes concealed rifling), cased as a pair, iron blackened or browned stock furniture to reduce reflection that might provide an aiming mark. Some may have concealed single set triggers. Normally high quality...
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    Spring cleaning the big guns

    So what movies have represented round shot doing the thing?
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    Flint striking too high?

    Sounds like the writer got it arse about, it should read 1/2 to 1/3 from the top of the frizzen, not bottom.
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    Lantaka real vs fake

    Nice! Where is Lantaka from? Looks like what I have seen called a Moluccan gun,probably the first guns to come to northern coast of Australia. The bore wouldn't faze me - obviously you had seen it before you bought it too. I suspect it may have been poured around an iron tube in the foundry to...
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    Cannon Balls!

    The ladle will be the reason. I don't have a Lee production pot, just the RCBS ladle, a small stainless saucepan and an LP gas camping stove. The floaters don't present to the pour when you use the nozzle style lead ladle. But this is minor - let us hear how firing the cannon goes!
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    Cannon Balls!

    For a cannon? That lot should last a while. Your close up is a nice pic but the flaws I can see are hard to figure. One looks like a split due to cold shut or a shrinkage pipe, another as though there were a grain of sand in the mold that the lead couldn't wet. On the other hand, the ball...
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    Medieval artillery.

    One that leaps to mind is the old (I mean 1961) encyclopedia Brittanica artillery article; that's where I saw my first really old guns. But when do you mean Medieval? whats the marker for start and end of that? And more to the point, what have you found so far! I have a few pics from Istanbul...
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    The 3 Mile Islad Thunder Mug

    Holy cow. That much metal needs trunnions and a motorised limber. :hatsoff:
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    stuck ball 50 cal kentucky

    While I favour the suggestion above to get a larger diameter screw from the hardware store, there is an alternative I have heard of but not tried for a stuck ball. Mercury. It will form amalgam, and soften the lead or dissolve it all the way. But the gas axe should be fun. Don't combine the...
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    Cannon Identification? Age, ect?

    Certainly looks like its made from the same model. However, there is no info on the other one except that it was found so has no provenance. Everything is therefore conjecture so far.
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    Why you never buy a Pedersoli Continental Duelling o Kentucky Gun

    I am happy with my Pedersolis, the Charles Moore Duelling Pistol and the Mortimer Target flint rifle. The chap i bought my Mortmer from got a Pedersoli 1858 Enfield, and it is a real looker - very good quality finish with crisp edges. There was one flaw he found - the foresight was not on...
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    question about a rifle in Oz

    The important point about muzzleloaders in the Southern Hemisphere is that it isn't the Northern Hemisphere. Bears do not **** in our woods. You are more likely to lose a leg to a white pointer shark or a spider bite or discover too late that even Australian pythons can squeeze. As was...
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    Civilian Matchlocks?

    Remember artists were not necessarily shooters, and not necessarily drawing within memory of the use of those guns.
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    CVA .58 Mountain rifle

    Pictures of my fix It was fellow member Necchi who used the tube pillar, and he noted the Mountain Rifle was particularly subject to it.
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    CVA .58 Mountain rifle

    Good work. I inletted more wood for support. But then someone told me he set a copper tube into the stock for the bolt to pass through, that absolutely stopped the trigger plate compressing any wood; I think that would be easier than what I did.
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    CVA .58 Mountain rifle

    I love my CVA Frontier .50 and loved my previous one as well. However, I want to check if you CVA owners know to keep an eye out for the fault that caused me several negligent discharges? There is no safety alert system in muzzleloading so I just raise it when I see CVAs discussed. The fault...
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    fines for pan use

    I do something like that but with a copper slab and a glass vial. Roll 3P to fine dust. Its not quite as fast as Swiss priming powder, but its a lot better than the 3P.
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