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    Shot in the bears eyes

    Blessed, I guess is what you would call those of us who actually got a glimpse of the west as it really was. When a liberal makes a statement like "many pioneers were completely unarmed" for example. I grew up in an unincorporated town of 500 persons. Every young man in town had a .22 rifle...
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    Shot in the bears eyes

    I am a bit familiar with the area that our deerstalkert hails from. US Hwy 95 runs the length of the state from Winnemucca NV, into SW Idaho where I hail from and runs, hit and miss, out the top of the state into Canada. When you get up above Wallace things are getting pretty remote. The...
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    You are over my head here. What is a Coach Harness Long Land Pattern? The only Bess reproductions I know of are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Models and one carbine from Japan, Italy, Belgium and maybe other places. Originals are another story. The way I read Track's product description is that if the...
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    Shot in the bears eyes

    Why would Dr. P. A. Matterson, obviously a collector of Kentucky rifle's when they were reasonably available, display the rifle with anything but the hunting/possible bag that came with it? Around 1900 some few of the original owners still survived, and such combinations were probably not all...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    I got 500 in boxes of 100 in a little known shop down where my brother lives, but I paid through the nose for them. I have a standing backorder for a couple of thousand online they are supposed to notify me when percussion caps go off the endangered species list. These will last till then. If...
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    I can't weld at all. I do the prep and then pay the shop rate for the TIG then do the finishing. You cannot leave gun work to non gun people. In taking a closer look at the backside of the lock around the touchhole area, it shows some gas erosion going on there also. That can be TIGed up at...
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    And yes--this lock has been tuned by someone who was after.performance without outward changes. That can be a good thing in a flintlick.
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    Well, the notch in the pan could be gas cutting from the vent, but that takes a LOT of shooting. Probably the vent is enlarged as well if thus is true. The pan can be TIGed up--no worries there and a touch hole liner installed will straighten up the vent. The spring you can buy right off the...
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    Shot in the bears eyes

    There are few things in life more useless in the heat of the chase than a shot out muzzleloader. When you've fired your shot, missed, and the woods are full of departing critters you sometimes wish for a repeater.
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    Well the engine turning on the back of the lockplate certainly is not original, but would slick the lock up. Not sure if the top jaw is correct with the cross hole, but probably a part that could be found. I think it is typical of a "show" gun which if used does not hurt it a bit. Abused is...
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    That Grice marked lock makes my palms sweat. The spring we can get.. I wonder if this is the second model Dixie used to sell that was "made in England^ As far as I know other than the Parker Hale Muskets no imports were made there. It is your musket though. You decide which one to buy and I...
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    Shot in the bears eyes

    I am having a good bit of fun with these bear threads, but the polite thing to do is get back on topic so here goes. When you have a muzzleloader loaded with shot and you need it loaded with something else, there is little choice but to shoot it out. Probably this fellow did just that...
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    I do not think you are getting beat up too badly at $500. I do not know the exact exchange rate US to Canadian though. I paid $575 for my Japanese Charleyville twenty five or more years ago when Navy Arms closed them out. As I have pointed out in another post it was and still is an ongoing...
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    Amusing/Ridiculous Muzzleloading Misconceptions...

    I was told by my mentor, who should know, the the government wanted the buffalo gone, and the forts handed out 45/70 ammo (50/70 first) to anybody willing to harvest them for the hides. Frank Myers hunted professionally through the whole era, lived to be a hundred, wrote his memoirs, a heck of...
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    Shot in the bears eyes

    When the critter is upon you and the rubber is about to meet the road, I imagine you are going to hit the thing with a fish pole, can of beans, flyswatter, of whatever else you happen to be holding. If all I had was a shotgun and birdshot I would give 'im a magazine full.
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    Swamped barrels...common?

    This thought has occurred to me also, that the swamped barrel was a continuation of what was already an accepted standard. How about the German Jaeger rifles that the Kentucky rifle derived from--were they swamped?
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    1792 Contract Rifle in Original Flintlock

    All single trigger as far as can be determined. The original description called for a fly in the tumbler, it is thought the contractors largely ignored that feature because it is unnecessary for a single trigger gun, The government was paying $12 per rifle, and the contractors would have left...
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    Belgian Brown Bess repair

    $250 was a pretty decent price. You would put much more into it before you got it complete, but it is YOUR musket. What impresses me about these Belgian Muskets is the reports I am reading about people who have been shooting them for years. They were proofed apparently and are considered...
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    Shot in the bears eyes

    Well one seems to exist. A rolling pin and a wood block makes priming powder. I guess I could research rolling pins and see how far back they go. I think we can just common sense this one. Fine priming powder works great. Probably it worked great on the matchlock, and the wheellock, before...
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    Shot in the bears eyes

    There exists on page 276 of my Stackpole copy of Ned Roberts' Book "The Muzzle Loading Caplock Rifle" a picture of a flintlock rifle dated Jan 30, 1833 with an original hunting bag and horn. And an obvious small priming horn, and a patch knife. Unless the guy was carrying salt for his game, I...
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