• Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Search results

L & R
the hawken shop
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. N

    Wax or oil for stocks

    A friend who is a BPCR competitor owns several exhibition-grade Shiloh Sharps, C. Sharps, and Lone Star rifles. His maintenance/touch-up choice is Renaissance Wax. According to him, it is satisfactory for metal AND wood, being the product choice of most museums. I do not have firearms of his...
  2. N

    Looking for Range Rod

    I believe BPCR competitors use what you seek. Dan Phariss almost certainly makes, or can make, precisely what you need. Shiloh and C. Sharps in Big Timber, MT, also may sell them. Hope this helps.
  3. N

    Books about Alexander Henry

    I have exhausted my search sites and interlibrary loan sources, I think, because I am unable to clearly identify what I seek within each one's search parameters. I seek a book with graphics on the muzzleloading percussion cap lock sporting rifles made by Alexander Henry, the Scottish gunmaker...
  4. N

    Opinions on Pedersoli Express rifles

    If you refer to Pedersoli's Kodiak muzzleloading double rifles, I have owned three, presently owning two. *** Pedersoli offers two (perhaps three??) distinct quality levels of Kodiaks. My first was a lower quality (chemically colored, semipistol grip, utility wood, etc.) .58-caliber rifle. The...
  5. N

    custom ball and minie molds?

    For my Pedersoli Safari double rifles, I had Tom at Accurate Molds make a bullet mold that drops 775-grains @ 30:1. Mold drops bullets with three driving bands, each a different O.D. Pan lubed with SPG and using CCI #11 Magnum caps to ignite 110-grains Goex FFg, a right-left (I always shoot in...
  6. N

    1848/1849/1862 loading levers

    Thanks. I'm on it.
  7. N

    1848/1849/1862 loading levers

    As near as I can determine, Uberti's reproduction 1848 and 1849 .31-caliber, and their 1862 Pocket Police revolvers are all based upon the same .31-caliber frame. Some 31s have four-inch barrels (or slightly longer??) while retaining a loading lever while "trapper" models dispense with the...
  8. N

    Bullet "bump up"

    What I think I'm attempting to identify is the relationship among smooth relatively force free loading of muzzleloading bullet, obturation during ignition, and accuracy. *** During ignition any bullet base moves first. I have been informed that included in "moving first" the base expands...
  9. N

    Patch material?

    I have been informed that linen patch material yield a better result than pillow ticking of the same thickness - because of its superior tear resistance? I have used only lubed unpatched bullets (SPG; 30:1) in my black powder rifles (one muzzleloader, one Shiloh Sharps 1863). Now I want to try...
  10. N

    CCI #11 Magnum caps or regular RWS #11 caps

    CCI #11 Magnum caps will provide flame of longer duration. Significance? That must be your conclusion. Hope this helps.
  11. N

    Steel backstrap & grip frame for Colt "pocket" revolver?

    Is the basis frame of the 1851 the same as the "pocket" Colt - 1848, 1849, 1862 - five shooters? A better question is: Will this London grip frame assembly fit "pocket" Colt - 1848, 1849, 1862 - 5-shot frames?
  12. N

    Steel backstrap & grip frame for Colt "pocket" revolver?

    Some time ago I posed a not-as-precise question about steel backstrap & grip frame that fit reproduction Colt 1862/1848/1849 5-shot percussion cap lock revolvers. I think I remember these being available from an after-market manufacturer many years ago. But that's all I think I remember. I know...
  13. N

    Edward Nash - Nashaway Valley Publications

    My "throne room" reading is elderly Muzzle Blasts. I read recently of several pamphlet-books (32-68 pages) written and apparently published by Edward Nash in the 1990s. I have been unsuccessful locating Nashaway Valley Publications and/or new or used copies of his books. My thought is to obtain...
  14. N

    Musket Caps?

    PM sent.
  15. N

    Quality of materials and manufacture-assembly

    A follow-up question about your experience. Was the problem one of product, or was it a problem with your order (ordering process)? I ask because I believe that human beings make errors in judgment. I also hope - believe?? - quality control is a more rigid process and much less likely to allow a...
  16. N

    Quality of materials and manufacture-assembly

    Before I spend the bucks, I solicit the experience of those people who own and shoot such after-market Henry-style percussion bar locks. Chambers does not make this lock.
  17. N

    Quality of materials and manufacture-assembly

    I have owned three Pedersoli Kodiak percussion double rifles, one lower grade .58-caliber rifle and two .72-caliber high grade Safaris. The Henry-style percussion bar locks have [different] cosmetic flaws. The trigger actions on the lower grade rifle needed work. But I have experienced no...
  18. N

    Powder charge & twist rate as functions for accuracy?

    Alan: I wish I still had access to a chronograph to identify MVs for 110, 120, and 150 grains FFg with the squat conical (30:1). The tests that we did were comparative penetration tests. Our "control" was Barnes Triple Shock 150-grain bullet at 3100 fps from a .30-06. Tests were conducted at 15...
  19. N

    "Glassing" cast round balls

    I first saw this process done in 1992, by a prototype maker for Boeing. In a previous life he had been the gunsmith, tool maker, prototype maker for Frank Straight. The rifle was a Ferguson .58-caliber "deerstalker" he had built. He rolled cast bullets between his granite surface plate and...
  20. N

    Powder charge & twist rate as functions for accuracy?

    Many thanks for your reply. My first loads through my Kodiak Safari was 150-grains Goex FFg with my custom 775-grain bullet. Accuracy was excellent. Recoil blooded and bruised my left arm (shooting shoulder) from clavicle to just below my elbow. Two things happened: I had a Pachmayr simulated...
Back
Top