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    Cloth that burns like cigarette paper?

    I prefer wool for my outer clothing layer partly because it is resistant to burning and melting. I remember people with whom I would camp cussing like sailors when sparks from a campfire would melt their synthetic fiber shirts, pants, and jackets. What I want to identify is natural fiber cloth...
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    Spout for black powder bottles

    Please identify spout-caps that replace caps of one-pound bottles of Swiss brand FFg and FFFg.
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    Muzzleloading deer and elk seasons

    Among states having muzzleloading only or simultaneous muzzleloading and bow hunting seasons, which ones still have Blaze Orange mandatiory for those specialty seasons? Montana, for example, has no muzzleloading special season. MLs are hunter's choice during the general gun season. Montana has...
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    Books by Don Kettlecamp?

    I understand that Don Kettlecamp (or Kettlekamp) has authored or co-authored several books on hunting with muzzleloaders. Anyone who owns, or who has read, any of these books, please describe them. And yes, I would probably be interested in acquiring books.
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    Round Ball Buffalo Guns

    I strongly believe that the older and less mobile you are, the more important becomes a [ridiculously???] large and powerful muzzleloading rifle with which to hunt. In terms of single shot rifles, I have stabilized on .72-caliber cap locks. "Why?" you might reasonably ask. I agree completely...
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    Breaking down fibers in the wood?

    If this is too off-topic, ignore it or PM me with a reply. *** Cleaning out boxes on my back porch, I discovered much muzzleloading "stuff," including a previously opened can of Johnson's Paste Wax. While the can was properly sealed, the box had been outside for at least three years in...
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    Howdah gun's ballistic handicap?

    Since the howdah gun most of us might have seen and/or used is one of Pedersoli's, I'll ask for information about it. Compared with standard barrel length (25-30 inch barrels) cap lock 20 gauge shotguns, what is a good rule of thumb for the amount or percentage of muzzle velocity for larger...
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    Nipple charger?

    Were I to dry load, is there a flask-like device that can trickle a small amount of powder into the breech by way of the threaded hole into which the nipple is screwed, nipple having been removed?
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    Thumb cocking Remingtons & Colts

    You are correct. Mr. Fitzgerald was Colt's face to the public who preferred New Service revolvers that he had Colt 'smith or butcher, depending upon your attitude, toward shortening grip, amputating part of trigger guard and shortening barrel. He is the man who kept his hands in his pockets...
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    Thumb cocking Remingtons & Colts

    John Henry Fitzgerald, I believe, is the man who Mr. Keith mentioned as the person who used the slip gun technique to best effect. Mr. Fitzgerald was attributed to carry slip guns in both front pockets, never having both hands out of his pockets at the same time. *** Can you suggest or, better...
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    Thumb cocking Remingtons & Colts

    This may be a practical choice, but I am unqualified to do this. Following up your idea, I did a BING search for 1858 Remington IMAGES. Among the bazillion photographs were images where, I believe, grip frame [part] was reshaped. Most of these images were of snub nose 1858s. If I could identify...
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    Thumb cocking Remingtons & Colts

    I have a question, but I'm not sure how to ask so anyone else will recognize what I'm asking about. So here goes. I have very small hands. When I grasp my 1858 Remington, thumb cocking is more difficult for me than thumb cocking my Freedom Arms Model 97 or my Uberti Colt SAA clone in 45 Colt...
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    Gun Building and Safety

    Proofing the rifle either by the maker upon your request or by you is the obvious protocol to eliminate any buyer's anxiety. I routinely do that with all muzzleloaders I buy that are not factory made in USA. If you want the proofing process I use, refer to: Kennett, Lee, Gun Digest, 1977...
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    Rifle Magazine #40 July/August 1974

    An article I read - what is it, 40+ years ago?? - I finally found its location. The article titled, "The Shot That Anchors," is in the July/August 1974 issue of Rifle Magazine #40. Anyone who has the issue, is it possible for you to: make a digital JPEG copy; or photocopy?
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    Pedersoli double rifle .72cal

    I have owned three Pedersoli Kodiak rifles, one 58-caliber "house" brand and two Kodiak Safari High Grades. While I no longer own any - not big enough, if you can believe it - I have had consistently good-excellent results, with provisos. Please PM me that I may bore you to tears with excessive...
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    Bear hunting - Brown and Grizzly

    Is brown and/or grizzly bear hunting legal in the United States? If it is, I anticipate such hunting can occur only in Alaska or under exceptional circumstance. If it is legal, is the use of muzzleloading single shot rifles permitted? Anyone on the forum done it? If muzzleloaders are...
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    Overthinking...

    I disagree - but not strongly - that corrosion is the biggest enemy. Something comparably destructive is a severely flexing or uncentered loading rod abrading the rifle's muzzle. This is something that will play havoc with accuracy in a disturbingly short time. All it takes is to be hurried with...
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    Ball/Bullet Trap??????

    My solution allows the shooter to also quantify bullets' effectiveness. 1. Go to hardware store and buy the least expensive duct tape available. 2. Go to your public library, or anywhere that has freebie magazines available. 3. Collect magazines in lots of 12-inch thickness. Acquire as many...
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    M1803 Harpers Ferry and M1800/03 Baker rifles

    Wow! Magnificent replies.
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    M1803 Harpers Ferry and M1800/03 Baker rifles

    I know very little about M1803 Harpers Ferry [series] .54-caliber rifles or M1800/03 Baker .69/.62-caliber rifles. They date from the same era. Both were specialty military weapons, apparently to be used for similar purposes. Their appearance, to me, is completely different - that is, the...
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