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  1. 4575wcf

    How to fix this?

    Easy outs all have one common issue. They work by swaging into a smaller hole, which in turn expands the diameter of the offending stuck material, tightening the assembly rather than helping you to loosen it. Take a soft hardware nut big enough for the ID to just cover the offending piece and...
  2. 4575wcf

    How do you store your flints?

    Note I said "running". That does not count the two that don't, the extra locks in the incoming pile and the three or four projects floating around in my head. Ahh-only if I could be 60 again.
  3. 4575wcf

    How do you store your flints?

    The only flinter I have currently running is my Charleyville. I pull the wooden insert out of my cartridge box and drop a couple in there, they don't seem to rattle around much. Gotta be prepared these days the British could come back and attack the white house or something.
  4. 4575wcf

    Naming Your Rifle?

    That would be Hammerin' Hannah. My plains rifle. For elk she carries 150 grains FFG with a .526 ball, and she hammers on both ends. 120 grains for everything else is more tolerable.
  5. 4575wcf

    Trade Gun VS Brown Bess

    A friend shot a spike coast bull with a TC Maxi ball at about 80-90 yards. The bull was standing in an open field (rare for Western Oregon). He ran like a thoroughbred out of the gate with the rest of the herd. Just as he got up over the rise out of sight he piled up. Heart and lungs blown...
  6. 4575wcf

    Trade Gun VS Brown Bess

    For upland hunting I would go with a custom trade musket in as close to 16 gauge as I could get. About .69 cal would be ideal. For large game like elk-give me the musket loaded toward the heaviest charges.
  7. 4575wcf

    Goex is a go!

    Powder is powder gents. My favorite brand of black powder, primers, percussion caps, bullets etc. are the ones that I can get my hands on. I grew up in a very well stocked America, and shortages of anything really get my undies in a bunch. COVID. tornadoes, snow storms, fire and all that, we...
  8. 4575wcf

    Goex is a go!

    I have been in the shop every weekday since Feb 1 feverishly filing out shotgun parts, finding tools, sorting, and trying to make some sense out of my mess out there. Missed the news about the buyout; this seems the perfect solution to our black powder woes. Estes rockets seems to be able to...
  9. 4575wcf

    In search of a foraging gun

    I have been pining after a double barrel flinter every since I was a teenager reading about Joseph Manton, Durs Egg and the rest of the makers that produced them. The Pedersoli version is priced above my pain threshold, so I will have to build it should I ever own one. Recently retired, I own...
  10. 4575wcf

    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    Thanks for the plug Rudyard, I would only add that we seem to be living in times similar to what I have heard was the case during the Second World War (a little bit before my time}. Shortages of everything, expensive when you can find it, and the Fed mortgaged to a substantial amount over the...
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    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    Oops. Thanks for the grammar corrections. Usually I am typing on the fly, my brain seems to work much faster than my hands do. I guess I could start a new thread about DOM; I work with this material a lot on my job. I really need? a flintlock double in 16 gauge in these days of cap...
  12. 4575wcf

    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    Researching a project always involves looking over vintage threads. Many knowledgeable black powder gun builders have passed on now, but some of their knowledge still exists. Many of them forgot more about the subject than some of us will ever know.
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    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    If you wish to "roll your own" double barrel shotgun barrel set, there is not much available in the way of blanks. Lothar Walther makes some, but at two bills per pop, you can buy a lot of finished shotgun. William Brockway's method for making them up out of existing cast off barrel sets, both...
  14. 4575wcf

    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    Point taken. Was attempting to establish the strength of DOM at about comparable to WWI shotgun barrel steel. I think it would be okay for black powder shotgun barrels carefully constructed, but I would give it a good proof. Heavy caliber plains guns? Not so sure.
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    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    There is some very informative information available on the double gun forum about original shotgun barrel steels. AISI 1020 is the usual steel used for DOM tubing. It conforms very closely to Pre WWI shotgun barrel steel by actual destructive testing. Such steel was a huge improvement over...
  16. 4575wcf

    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    As a career machinist closely involved with the hydraulics industry I have built a lot of stuff out of DOM. As a rule it is an expensive way to go. The quality of the tubing seems to be all over the place, some cuts and finishes beautifully, and some won't finish at all. All DOM I have ever...
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    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    I am surprised that no one seems to mention in these threads the manufacture of the Springfield and Harper's Ferry military barrels from the era directly proceeding and during our American Civil War. The process was pretty thoroughly documented in writings from the times. These barrels...
  18. 4575wcf

    Some information for those interested in buying the 1859 Sharps (Be it from Chiappa or Pedersoli)

    I would not concern myself about any breech pressure issues with the larger ball. The round ball has the shortest bearing surface of any possible projectile. The cap and ball pistol when loaded with the correct pure lead ball swaged into the cylinder is shooting more of a lozenge than a ball...
  19. 4575wcf

    Building a 4 Bore Rifle

    Youtube has been my go to site during my quest to be a do it yourselfer. I have used YouTube to successfully repair my clothes dryer, my clothes washer, my microwave oven, my car, my truck, my well, my fence, build a chicken coop etc. etc.. I will leave them high and dry over this gun video...
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    Some information for those interested in buying the 1859 Sharps (Be it from Chiappa or Pedersoli)

    The Sharp's action would not be a terribly hard build, should I get my milling machine running and come on line. The 1852 Model is the nicest looking one by far, but having never handled one I don't know how those sealed, or if the slant breech system would be improved by incorporating...
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