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  1. oreclan

    Kibler's Hunting Pouch

    Yes, Jeff Po boy Luke ,among others , offers beautiful professionally finished hunting bags for less. Of course Kibler's kit includes the tools and instructions to make your own variation. So you can, with additional leather make other bags or knife, and tomahawk sheaths. I would be tempted if...
  2. oreclan

    PLAIN bag for a PLAIN old man ...

    Very nice bag! Most of mine are simple as well. You can always use a simple bag with a later style rifle/ fowler , but not the other way around. What are the dimensions?
  3. oreclan

    Did I mess up(Traditions™ Mountain Rifle Kit)? New User/Introduction

    I love the deer! Your stain application is good, if you like it; and I prefer metal parts in the white so that they take on a patina as the muzzleloader is used. But those are just my preferences.
  4. oreclan

    How do you pull back the **** on your flintlock?

    No right or wrong way. I use my thumb and forefinger on the jaw screw usually. Sometimes I cup my hand and pull the **** back with my small and ring fingers. On my Cookson doglock Fowler I reverse my hand and pull the **** back with the web of my hand. That way it's easier to get to the dog
  5. oreclan

    Paper cartridges in a rifled gun?

    Historically cartridges have been used with flintlock rifles. They were made the same way as if for military muskets, but the lead ball had a greased cloth patch sewn around it. To load the end of the paper cartridge was torn off. The powder was poured down the barrel, and the greased patched...
  6. oreclan

    Coning

    I am not a competition shooter so I just push in a loose patched ball with a my knife handle, then choke up on my ramrod to start it down the barrel.
  7. oreclan

    How did American forces reload in battle?

    And Lewis Wetzel practiced loading on the run. His rifle was supposed to have had an oversized touch hole and was self priming, so he poured powder in to the muzzle from the powderhorn, spit a ball from his mouth in to the bore and seated it with a slap, and fired at his pursuer.
  8. oreclan

    Flintlock flash guards for competitive tournaments

    Rather disrespectful of the Patriots being honored. I participate at every ceremony that my SAR performs, along with the tri-state areas DARs of course I have been doing reenacting for 50 years where flash guards with TWO POINT attachments have been required for most of that time.
  9. oreclan

    How did American forces reload in battle?

    Bandoliers of wooden bottles with a pulvern or priming horn and a ball bag were used generally in the early 17th Century.
  10. oreclan

    How did American forces reload in battle?

    Fiction! There are surveys of surviving rifles (All we have to rely on.) that support larger calibers being used in the rifle companies while they existed.
  11. oreclan

    How did American forces reload in battle?

    There is a lot of fiction in this post! Calibers of 18thC rifles tended to be over .40 caliber. The European calibers were developed over centuries of military gun development and not because of " fumbling with cartridges", in fact cartridges were not even developed until the 1700s. Most...
  12. oreclan

    Would you use an original gun barrel to build a new gun ?

    Nope.
  13. oreclan

    Need help identifying Charleville

    Try Track of the Wolf. There are of course other suppliers. Try looking for a local gun shop or black powder shooting club, also. I got interested in muzzleloading over 50 years ago in North Carolina. A fellow Marine, Mike from Cincinnati had an original restored and we shot at targets in a...
  14. oreclan

    Toe Plate on your rifle

    While with over forty years in muzzleloading this is the first I have heard of tapping the toe plate while loading. I thought it was for reinforcing the toe of the butt stock. I load in the military way so the butt plate rests on the ground to the left of my left foot. Also military firearms...
  15. oreclan

    I've screwed up....

    I had to unbreech a Kentucky pistol when I stripped off a wire brush from the cleaning rod. Never used a wire brush again.
  16. oreclan

    How did the itzie bitzie teenie weenie screws leave my work bench?????

    Did a lot of things on shag carpets back in the 70s that I don't regret!
  17. oreclan

    How did the itzie bitzie teenie weenie screws leave my work bench?????

    My missing or "forgot I bought that already" items always show up after I order one. It always works.
  18. oreclan

    Hello from Pittsburgh

    Welcome from Little Washington.
  19. oreclan

    Question about shooting round ball in smooth bore

    An over-powder wad of paper, wasp's nest, tow ,etc. plus an additional wad over the ball works well.
  20. oreclan

    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    I love the graceful looks of the French fusils. I have a model 1728 that I modified from a Japanese 1763/66 musket. I like the '28s stock better.
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