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  1. GREENSWLDE

    Chasing T/C Threads

    For a 6mm or 1/4" my 1st choices would be 9/32"BSF( a bit rare these days) next CEI 9/32"x32tpi or Model engineers 9/32"x32tpi. If it'very bad Open hole to say 3/8" and turn an insert, threaded with the original thread. Sweat the out side of insert with silver solder ( S/S has a tensile strength...
  2. GREENSWLDE

    Need Help, German Jaeger Rifle

    Jager, Hope the att's show the use of the pillar in the guard and finger grip guard on the Ghaye rifle. It also has a palm rest Screwed into the fore end just in front of the guard..OLD DOG..
  3. GREENSWLDE

    Need Help, German Jaeger Rifle

    Hello Jager,As your First rifle that has no makers name visible you may find markings on the under side of the barrel near the breach and may say the caliber in mm. The second one definately shouts 60 Rod. Target Rifle with the Wire Front trigger. Rifles of this type often have a finger rest...
  4. GREENSWLDE

    Need Help, German Jaeger Rifle

    My 9.6mm Schutzen loved 40grns of Swiss 3 and was sonic at 100mtrs so possibly 50/55grns would suit. It was Was also Belgian.
  5. GREENSWLDE

    Sources on wheellock rifles?

    I have found the Wheel lock Instructions from DWJ. 13pp. text. ..30pp. drawings..6pp fold outs ..
  6. GREENSWLDE

    HELP! Prussian Blue in wife's carpet!`

    If you have any carpet left after all the acid treatments recommended -- A nice cruise or a Second Hon-- m--- might just get you out of the S---. Been there..Done that, with Puppy problems when had another around.. Puppy will be PUPPYS.. And a shaky hand might be solved by Absterance. BEST OF...
  7. GREENSWLDE

    Leather sources

    Difficult to find Best Bridle Leather in UK these days as cattle are slaugthed at about 36 mounths for the meat trade. Old screw cows and Old Pedigree breaders are gone. Finding backs long enough for 72" dog slips is like looking for Rocking Horse ___!! We don't have any Buffs here and Argy...
  8. GREENSWLDE

    Sources on wheellock rifles?

    Some years ago The German Gun magazine DWJ produced a very detail Build book for a European Wheel lock. Scaled in M/M and written in German,but followable by Drawings. If I can find my copy I will post more details But not the whole thing as it is about 20 pages of A4. I think it was published...
  9. GREENSWLDE

    Hello From Upstate New York

    Hey Hany, Welcome from Middle England, On another Island. Go for a Flint Gun. They can be a bit Cantancorous ---But great FUN..OLD DOG..
  10. GREENSWLDE

    Westley Richards double barrel

    I will put up what I know of J.R.Cooper & Cooper & Goodman. It appears that Goodman may have been a B'Ham Patent agent.
  11. GREENSWLDE

    Centre Fire Patent

    A well known member of Warks. branch of the MLAGB had one of Bentley's C/Fs in the 1960s A nice and reliable Shooter. Never saw any problems with it and was good in he wet as the caps were under cover. O.D.
  12. GREENSWLDE

    Westley Richards double barrel

    Westley ,from the configuration of the gun shewn here,Definately out sourced guns. Joseph Rock Cooper was a prolific Manufacturer of both Sporting and Military firearms in the mid1800's. Trading mainly as Cooper & Goodman also as Cooper and Banks this one is an oddy (and could have been one of a...
  13. GREENSWLDE

    Hello From Upstate New York

    buckheart. I live in a village that was owned by the late Lady Loudon. Old country..
  14. GREENSWLDE

    Favored Materials for Field Ramrods

    Regretably you on your side you have No idea how shoots were run in 1830/60 M/L period in Great Britain .Even to To-day We still have driven M/L days. But BOXING DAY when Landlord and Tenants exchanged presents and Hunted Hounds together does till exhist in places. Even On Sent trails. OLD DOG..
  15. GREENSWLDE

    Favored Materials for Field Ramrods

    May have said this before.I use an old hickory putter shaft with a bronze head and a breakoff under the ball top( an old Rubber Bog Pull ). The joint has a thread to accept a spare nipple and a P/H cleaning mop.
  16. GREENSWLDE

    The Best Muzzleloading Movies

    Not mzzle loading stuff but very enjoyable. A New film from a novel. "The English." Streamed on UK BBC 2 as a serial. Mosty filmed about US NW Counties post CW 1860-1903. About emigrants and their problems. Some of it not for Kids.
  17. GREENSWLDE

    English Sporting Rifle by Harvey

    Unfortunatly in the 60's,70' and 80's I rearly took Roll film Photo's of my aquisitions, restorations, useage or sales of some the unusual guns tended to find a bit different. One was a relic I had from a Famous B'ham gunmaker in need of TLC,a new bottom rib and new rear sight. A poli-goove 20b...
  18. GREENSWLDE

    Mould or mold?

    How sure are you of the Greco-Roman prenunciation. Our Primer was Latin for today,pronounced "Eating"..Latin is a Dead lanuage,Dead as dead can be It used to kill the romans, Now it's killing Me.. Reminds me:- Caesar adsum jam fortae...
  19. GREENSWLDE

    1850s British Pepperbox Revolver Wont fire Percussion Caps

    The Exhisting nipples look as if they have been flattened down by dry firing and shortened. They should have more of a cutting edge to the top. Not that large flat. Most of my originals measure approx .438"(7/32")from the top of the thread to the top.Is there excessive play in the Hammer pivot...
  20. GREENSWLDE

    Mould or mold?

    I think I was Led to the Mould were I was told to put my Moulten Bullet Lead.. OLD DOG..
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