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  1. 4575wcf

    Colt 1851 vs. Pietta

    Thanx. I am a gun crank from way back. Too bad all this accumulated gun knowledge hasn't done me much good other than entertaining my coworkers and friends. Recently semi retired I am on the verge of having some money and some time at the same time. Plenty to do on our small property, but...
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    Colt 1851 vs. Pietta

    My first '51 Navy was ordered directly from Navy Arms in the very late 1970's. It was the round barreled Leech and Rigdon version and cost $95 + ship. I lived on the home place in those days a long ways from anywhere and I had pop and beer cans set up against a berm in the driveway. I fired...
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    Colt 1851 vs. Pietta

    Having been a machinist for my working career, with a modicum of metallurgy and engineering training thrown in, here is the deal. The first reproduction 1851 Colts were copied from an original in the 1950's supplied to the Italian gunmakers by Val Forget of Navy Arms. Shrinkage is an accepted...
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    Pillow ticking ?

    Oh My Goodness. Are you telling me all those tasty burgers I used to eat at fast food are COWS! : ).
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    Pietta 1851 Navy cylinder jams

    From what I have read the cowboy action guys have tuned their revolvers to work with a tight fitting #10, and a heavy enough mainspring to keep the hammer down on the fired cap and contain it, using loads just heavy enough to get the ball to the target without blowing the caps to pieces. This...
  6. 4575wcf

    Pillow ticking ?

    You do have to keep an eye on the labels these days and make sure the ticking is 100% natural fibers. When I joined the club in OR we were shooting ticking with a green teflon coating on one side that we were getting from a mail order vendor. One of the guys decided to replicate it himself...
  7. 4575wcf

    Building a Pecatonica Tennessee Classic Longrifle

    Off topic, but my latest build is an LC Smith double from a stripped frame. Do not try this at home : ).
  8. 4575wcf

    Building a Pecatonica Tennessee Classic Longrifle

    This is why I scratch build. I don't need anyone semi-finishing my gun and getting the holes half off center, the lockplate mortise out of position, or too large. Granted, it takes longer to completely engineer the gun yourself and to start with blank components, but when you arrive at the...
  9. 4575wcf

    GOEX Cartridge Grade?

    Great information guys. I will turn the bud loose. He shoots a Zouave .58 that is not the highest quality gun that was ever made, but outside of a puny mainspring, it seems to shoot okay.
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    Pillow ticking ?

    When I lived in Western OR, there was a wonderful store in Milwaukee called "The Mill's End". They specialize(d)? in canvas, upholstery, ticking and all sorts of tough materials. I used to buy my linen there by the yard, the ladies always got a kick out of me bringing in my Starret 1 inch...
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    GOEX Cartridge Grade?

    HI All My best bud encountered some Goex cartridge grade BP at a gun show, and picked up several cans. We both have cartridge rifles, but how about using this stuff in other BP weapons. Does it work? And how well?
  12. 4575wcf

    Lancaster rifle question

    If memory serves the Dixie Lancaster Rifle was an Italian gun, somewhat later than the Belgian Pennsylvania and Kentucky Rifles that the firm offered. A few fitted parts and tuning will fix most of what ails any of them. The black powder shooting world desperately needs another Turner...
  13. 4575wcf

    Pillow ticking ?

    When I bought my first muzzle loader as a teenager in the '70's I used muslin from Mother's quilt material stash, usually the outside edges of bed sheets where they were not worn. I cut round patches to size, melted Crisco on the stove, dropped the patches in and fished them out with tweezers...
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    Lancaster rifle question

    Dixie's quality was all over the map, but Turner was pretty much religiously honest about describing products in his catalog. He did a very good job of providing low cost muzzle loading guns and accoutrements that started many of us in the 60's and 70's on the road to learning about these guns...
  15. 4575wcf

    Goex 4F out of Stock

    I had my rifle completed and firing once very early in my career. I was not overly happy with my work so I eventually tore it down, tuned the lock, rebreeched it, and began inletting it into a curly maple blank. The metal parts were unhurt, so the other day I dug the project out of mothballs...
  16. 4575wcf

    Goex 4F out of Stock

    Sounds like 4f would be good choice for my .32 flintlock poorboy in the main charge under the patched #1 buckshot, though I admit to not having tried it.
  17. 4575wcf

    Goex 4F out of Stock

    Once again. Get yourself a good granite rolling pin and roll yourself up any granulation you want on a smooth hardwood board. This is precisely how I intend to "corn" the pucks of my own product. Could not be simpler.
  18. 4575wcf

    Alpha-gal tick virus

    I did a brief stint in a furniture shop in my early 20's. I got assigned to finish a mahogany tabletop and I learned about wood dust allergies first hand and on the spot.
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    Alpha-gal tick virus

    DDT, according to those who used it worked on skeeters, bed bugs, and all sorts of nasty critters. And supposedly all of them are coming back.
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    Alpha-gal tick virus

    Wow. Maybe I owe our miraculous health in those candid days of my youth to DDT. It was in common use here until it drifted into the Birds of Prey area on the Snake River and killed an unprecedented amount of bald eagle nesting pairs. That was the end of it.
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