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    Long Range Flintlock Rifle Shooting video

    Yes. I built it from a David Price kit.
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    Long Range Flintlock Rifle Shooting video

    None. I don't usually swab between shots.
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    Edward Marshall rifle by Rube Wilson

    Gus, I make the toggles long enough that they can't fall out of the "D" rings. I started doing this a few years ago because I got tired of powder measures either swinging on long straps from my bag straps, or attached to my powder horns and swinging and clicking.
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    Edward Marshall rifle by Rube Wilson

    For those of you who liker early rifles.
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    Smoothbore ball velocity

    Here are the results from the video test I did on smoothbore round balls https://imgur.com/VwG0Bam https://imgur.com/9lTX1kc Here’s the video
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    Long Range Flintlock Rifle Shooting video

    Well then, the shooters who couldn't hit a barn won't need to zero at 200 yards. 25-yards makes more sense for them. But, if you do plan to make 100 to 200 yard shots routinely, then a 200-yard zero works better than a 100-yard zero. I'm not saying that's the only way to do it, but it is a way...
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    Long Range Flintlock Rifle Shooting video

    Both barrels are rifled, .54 caliber. I'm not sure how much more common the rifled/smooth combination was. I do know that Timothy Murphy's swivel breach rifle, built in 1776, had both barrels rifled.
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    Green Mountain T/C Replacement Barrel

    Trtack of the Wolf has therm in stock right now.
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    Long Range Flintlock Rifle Shooting video

    I put together a video on 200-yard rifle shooting that some of you may enjoy.
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    Joe Wood Coning Tool Availability

    I called Joe, and ordered some tools, so I'm all set.
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    Joe Wood Coning Tool Availability

    Does Joe Wood still make coning tools? I need to order one in .40 cal and one in .45 cal, but my email to him bounced back undelivered.
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    Making the Hickok-Tutt Shot

    I’ve been fascinated by Wild Bill Hickok since I was a kid, I’ve read all of Joseph Rosa’s books on Hickok, along with a lot of less well-researched books and articles. His shot in the Davis Tutt fight is one of history’s iconic shots. It is to Colt Navy revolvers what Billy Dixon’s one-mile...
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    Smoothbore load testing

    The temporary rear sight didn't even survive the trip to the range..."super glue" my ***...LOL
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    Smoothbore load testing

    Yup, 42 inches. I put a rear sight on my last last fowler, but I've been shooting this one without, and I plan to keep it that way, but I'm thinking of temporarily super gluing a rear sight on just for the load tests, to insure I'm taking out every variable that I can.
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    Smoothbore load testing

    Spence, it isn't like I haven't considered it...some of those groups make me doubt my shooting ability. But, I don't understand how I can shoot a three or four inch group every time I load with 110 grains of 2Fg, or why I can shoot a three inch group on the second string and the 10th string of...
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    Smoothbore load testing

    I’ve been working on a smoothbore round ball test by shooting both patched and bare round balls with both 2Fg and 3Fg Goex powders. Some of you may recall that a few months ago I took a survey here, and on some other muzzleloading sites to see how you shoot your smoothbores. For the test I shot...
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    Hardening an L& R Frizzen

    Why send it back when I was easily able to fix it myself, and it is now working?
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    Hardening an L& R Frizzen

    Thanks to Ian Pratt, who sent me some detailed instructions my frizzen seems to be sparking well. It is a little softer now...a file doesn't skitter right off the back, but it is still pretty hard. I heated a can of vermiculite up to 385 degrees in the oven, buried the frizzen in it and baked...
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    Hardening an L& R Frizzen

    I recently built a swivel breech rifle. This gun has a frizzen piece for each barrel made from the front ends of a pair of L&R Manton locks. When I was building the gun I found one frizzen to be so hard that a file skitters across the back of it, while the other one filed and polished easily...
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    2F vs 3F for shot loads

    Grains is a measure of weight...period. All powder measures, whether they are the little brass jobs we use, or an RCBS Uniflow attempt to throw a volume of powder that weights the weight in grains that we are looking to load. That's why with a Uniflow, or it's equivalent, you adjust the volume...
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