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  1. 4575wcf

    Boiled linseed oil vs raw linseed oil

    If you blow an inlet, you gotta bite the bullet and put in a bit of colored Acraglas. A skin coating of Acraglas inside a lock mortice offers a moisture barrier you can attain in no other way, also a perfect molded fit to the plate. Large filled areas around an inlet are no sign or quality...
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    Pedersoli 12 ga Coach gun trigger issue

    I noticed the single trigger versions when I was last looking up the flintlocks. How does this set up work? I assume you **** both hammers and give it one long pull till they both go one after the other? I don't think it would be on my gun very long.
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    Boiled linseed oil vs raw linseed oil

    I never had a problem with a stock treated with the Mini Wax suspended polymers covered with an oil finish. I hunted in the coast range of Oregon with these stocks, and a 1/4 inch stream of water running off the toe of the stock most of the day is not all that unusual. A freak storm caught us...
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    Steaming a stock

    Well I don't know at all about the propane torch. I've burned several unintentional holes in heat shrink plastic with the propane torch, but I have also seen water well guys that could heat shrink electrical connectors hip deep in a trench with propane and get them perfect. I guess it is all...
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    Boiled linseed oil vs raw linseed oil

    I have been using the Mini Wax polymer filled stains lately with good results. They are available in a good range of colors. The grain is filled in a couple of coats, then just oil finish as usual. I do the inside of the inletting as well as the outside of the stock, and get some pretty good...
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    Steaming a stock

    If you've got to move the stock, use dry heat. I learned the trick from a musical instrument maker. I corrected a fore end one time by clamping it in position and placing it on top of our wood stove spaced off a bit until it took a set.. Does not take as much heat, or as long as you would...
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    Pedersoli 12 ga Coach gun trigger issue

    You are on the right track for the fix. Probably you can find a soft iron finishing nail that will just press into the hole. Drive the head in soft a little to get a bit of form and upset on the drive end and drill a very small shallow hole into the driven end to accept a slight peening and...
  8. 4575wcf

    I need help with a TRS Baker Rifle flintlock build

    You are doing fine in the big picture. When I was starting out building parts for my various projects I had a self imposed rule to NEVER work on a part I could not get. Otherwise, if I could order a replacement tumbler for instance, I would keep fitting til I ruined three of them if necessary...
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    Alpha-gal tick virus

    I've only got one deer tick on me in my whole hunting career, but that was a doozey. I picked him up going through some long grass in OR coast range, and he got VERY well imbedded in my forearm on the drive home. We covered him with Vaseline and and pulled him out complete when he started to...
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    Did they all have patchboxes?

    The southern mountain rifles made famous by Bean and others usually had simple iron furniture and a grease hole in the stock for patches rather than the patch box. Dixie's Tennessee Mountain Rifle was a fairly typical example. The beauty of these rifles is in the geometry and the simple...
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    .45 caliber RB enough for deer?

    Several people here on the forum have made this claim. I have not seen any large number of deer shot with the round ball myself, just a few within my family. I will try to connect on a muley next month, so we will see, hopefully I can find a younger smallish one for the larder.
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    SOLD Navy Arms Buffalo Hunter **SPF**

    The Buffalo Hunter was taken to Africa by Val Forgett of Navy Arms where he used it to harvest plains game. He used the then current Navy Arms Hawken loaded with a special heavy conical bullet on the dangerous stuff. Turner Kirkland of Dixie Gun Works took an original 4 bore side by side to...
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    Did they all have patchboxes?

    Far more Pennsylvania rifles were built with a patchbox than were built without, but an occasional rifle does surface. I have just finished reading a book I procured from our local library "Gunsmiths of Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania" by James B. Whisker and Stacy B. C. Wood. I am...
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    Lyman, Lee, or RCBS Min'e Mold ?

    The Buffalo Hunter by Navy Arms typically has a Zoli manufactured barrel, any minie ball that performs well in a Zoli made Zouave rifle should be the ticket.
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    Lyman, Lee, or RCBS Min'e Mold ?

    I fear we are going to be forced more and more to make our own shooting products as time goes on. Fortunately for us, we live in a country where that was the normal for many years. Like everybody else, I got spoiled sending off my money to the supply houses and getting the required things...
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    .45 caliber RB enough for deer?

    Exactly my point. Every head of big game I have seen shot with a round ball has gone a ways. They don't fold up and go down with shock like they do with a 30/30, but they are not hard to find in fairly open country. A friend put a .50 TC maxi ball through both sides of a spike bull elk at...
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    Lyman, Lee, or RCBS Min'e Mold ?

    A Minie, in unison with a foster shotgun slug, is a rather difficult projectile to cast. The trick is to get a properly formed skirt area without voids. The original CW Minie balls were swaged on machinery from soft lead. I find the Lyman mold will make about the best minie bullet, but you...
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    .45 caliber RB enough for deer?

    My black powder deer season starts Sept 8 and runs through the rest of the month, perhaps the .45 underhammer and I can connect on a muley and add a bit of information to the thread. I just hope the weather cools off a little bit, it might be a problem getting the critter out quick enough...
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    Triple 7 ignition problems

    The last time I ordered 2FG was from a black powder club I belonged to in OR. The powder came in a 25 lb sealed bag in a box. I recycled and repainted all my surplus metal IMR and Goex cans and broke the powder down into 1 lb. lots myself. Still using it up in the shotguns, but at 89-100...
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    A trip to The Rifle Shoppe

    By the way are CW carbines unmentionables? I have an original second model Maynard that needs some TLC.
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