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  1. GREENSWLDE

    An English Newbie

    Hi DAVI, Welcome from Middle England where the Four Counties Meet. If you haven't already, look up The Muzzle Loaders of Great Britian. Lots of Great Info and a number of Clay and Rifle shooters up in the Borders area near you.. Big National Calender for Clays,Pistols and Rifles. Bit far south...
  2. GREENSWLDE

    Wrapped bird shot

    Old Seal hunters trick, on RTO cartridges.Apparently good for75/80 yards..O.D.
  3. GREENSWLDE

    Welding

    I had one of the First 1500 MGA's .It was one of the three cars at the London Motor Shows..1953. There was 1 Red 1 Black & 1 White. Mine was the Black One. VYC 756.. Great Motor. OLD DOG.. NOW.. BACK TO GUNS..
  4. GREENSWLDE

    Kinda different scrimshaw

    SORRY ABOUT THE MISS SPELLING . SHOULD HAVE READ "TALENTED" & ONLY "THE" TOUCH... O.D.
  5. GREENSWLDE

    Kinda different scrimshaw

    Pajeepete's Wife.. That Owl is Fantastic.!! The tanented thinking to leave the horn colour around the Pupils with only a he touch of flecking makes them Alive.. Please lets see MORE MORE & MORE. OLD DOG..
  6. GREENSWLDE

    Sear Material

    Look for Old broken truck spring in a scrap yard. Makes good replacement material for sears and new gun springs. Aneal, make new part and re-harden the same as others say.. When tempering leave the sear nose "Straw" and the rest blue.. O.D.
  7. GREENSWLDE

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    All this Time spent on Carving & fiddling? Could have been time out Shooting !!
  8. GREENSWLDE

    What is the difference between a Roman Nose Stock and a Cows foot Stock?

    That's a Load of Le Bull!! Should read La Moo!! O.D.
  9. GREENSWLDE

    Oldest photograph of a dog.

    Not sure about Bear but the Grandma of the labs in my Avatar Came to the Kyle of Bute with me one year. She went as a dear little dog. Came back as a Little Deer Dog. Never went there without her after.. OLD DOG..
  10. GREENSWLDE

    Beaver's

    One of the concerns with introducing BEAVERS back into the UK is the DAM barriers to Migratory Salmon, SeaTrout & Shad on the up river trip to the spawning redds. Our Salmon stocks are falling so rapidly, any more interuptions Could be the beginning of the END. OLD (FISHING) DOG..
  11. GREENSWLDE

    L& R Manton Lock

    Not Commercially.That is a pair I made for Private consumtion. The ATT. is of a 1826 John V pan that I had made a new tumbler for, in use at a BASC game Fair.OLD DOG..
  12. GREENSWLDE

    L& R Manton Lock

    Poor photos of a pair of John Manton "V" pan locks in process showing the "M" form of the water drain emphasing the angle of the pan edges matched by the pan cover. Water is shed away from the priming. Not into it!! These were built to be part of a 20b O/U using a pair of Unsed old DAM Tubes I...
  13. GREENSWLDE

    L& R Manton Lock

    Does this lock look a little famillar. It's from an 1785/95 Twig Duck gun Breech convertion by Issac Walker in1805 (Signed) later percussioned. O.D. Does this lock look a little familiar. From a TWIGG 10b Duck gun of 1785/95,Patent Breech converted in1805 by Issac Walker(signed) later...
  14. GREENSWLDE

    L& R Manton Lock

    Dear Sir, I would respectfully point out that if you peruse your Ilustration You may see that the edges of the priming pan are bevelled down wards at the outside and the hammer is also made to coinside with this bevel making an almost air tight(not only Water tight) seal, draining water away...
  15. GREENSWLDE

    L& R Manton Lock

    Your Lump(OF MANURE) was Actually designed in by John Manton and Copied by Joe (Big court battle over patents.May have been the cause of Joe's eventual Bancrupcy.) Photos taken from Patent drawings and from 1825/6 guns. I have used Joe's pattern on several lock-- VERY FAST as the blind clears...
  16. GREENSWLDE

    A Pair of Pistols from the French Alps

    No different to a Bitish side lock of the same period, Except it Only has 3 pin bridles not the better 4 pin as of Brazier,Stanton et al.. OLD DOG.
  17. GREENSWLDE

    A Pair of Pistols from the French Alps

    Not only increase the Beauty ,deceases the weight you have in your hand..OLD DOG..
  18. GREENSWLDE

    Chasing T/C Threads

    If yer gunna by oversiz nipples get th rite sise mouff(sorry. the rite size tapta goo wiv it. O.D.
  19. GREENSWLDE

    Hello from Suffolk, UK

    Welcome from The 4 Countys, Middle England. If you are in Suffolk Please find THE ANGLIAN MUZZLE LOADERS "IF you haven't already found them" Great bunch of Blokes and a few Ladies AND join THE MLAGB. Have our own Range in the DEAD HEART, 25,50 & 100m. OLD DOG..
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