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  1. bajabuc

    Are preccusions as fun as flinters

    Why did the military switch from flint to cap. Stupidity mostly. The typical Brit enlisted man of the time had the mentality of a duck. It takes a brain to shoot a flinter. You have to think. The other reason was economic...some military contractor had to supply caps and knowing who we're...
  2. bajabuc

    Are preccusions as fun as flinters

    There's lots of half stock flinters. Just because some of them started out as full stocks and some ***** broke it.... Merrie Olde England...how do they feel about collecting Mantons?
  3. bajabuc

    Anyone see Tradition's new rifle?

    I been wandering around town checking out the pawnshops for sidelocks. They're getting few and far between but I notice there's a ton of them thar inline puppies, they all look NEW or fired once and there's almost always powder residue in the barrel...but...what sidelocks I do find have been...
  4. bajabuc

    First time Shooting Blackpowder

    I have been known to take some 3f and put it in my wifes motar and pestal and make fine powder out of it. It's a marble mortar and pestal. It grinds it up pretty fine and ignites even faster than 4f. I'm not recommending you do it. I'm just telling you I have. Then again I also made my own...
  5. bajabuc

    Semantics and Bore Size

    Back in the early 1800's there was a hunting club for English Gentlemen. The initiation was shooting a 2 bore at a target until you hit it. Very exclusive club. Not very many smart members. The gun was responsible for more than 1 death. I pick us some of the darndest trivia in my reading!!
  6. bajabuc

    who1st time flinter

    My first gun was a flinter...took me 30 years to get back to it. Too long. Shoulda never sold it.
  7. bajabuc

    Where does one find Bee's Wax for sale?

    Local honey means local beeswax. Know anybody who sells local honey?
  8. bajabuc

    Semantics and Bore Size

    It ain't a cannon until it gets to be 2 and 5/8". Smaller wheeled guns than that are models... I kinda class my guns by what it shoots. 4f in the bore is a .22 and yes I have built .22's for my kids. 3f in the bore is .30 up to .54. 2f for guns up to 1". 1f(cannon powder)for everything...
  9. bajabuc

    First time Shooting Blackpowder

    I like a .495 ball and pillow ticking. 70g of 3f will work fine. I have ignition trouble using 3f in the pan and that usually makes me fffflinch. 4f ignites quick. I'm not a paper shooter..and you did mention you were going hunting with it.
  10. bajabuc

    Anyone see Tradition's new rifle?

    Pretty gun...I like the 32" barrel. Nice grain...they probably took pictures of the best one!
  11. bajabuc

    Burned barrel ??

    get some cannon fuse load the barrel with 250 grains of 3f and two patched balls...tie it to a tree in a VERY safe place. stick the fuse in the nipple hole make sure there's powder in the hole. Light the fuse and station yourself behind a bigger tree out of the line of fire or schrapnel. I'd...
  12. bajabuc

    BLACKPOWDER - BUYING & SELLING PER ATF

    Administrations change. Decisions made by the last one might not be binding on the next...unless it's been to the courts..and then there's always that sly sucker who doesn't care what the courts say...and he has the full resource of his department to back him...how many million of dollars are...
  13. bajabuc

    Need Hawken advice

    Send it back. You need permission from them first. They're on the web.
  14. bajabuc

    English Trade Knives

    My former nextdoor neighbor built a small falling trip hammer that was powered by gravity and used a homemade spring to "bounce it back" the trip locked and it was ready to use again. No welding...all hand forged parts and it disassembled into parts that weighed no more than 30 pounds each...
  15. bajabuc

    How do ya make good Charcloth?

    that's where I got mine from...somewhere I was reading about candy making during the Regency period in England. I kept reading about candy being put in little metal boxes with hinged tops and sold to the Royal Mail Coach traverlers. The Royal Mail coach cost more to ride than the contemporary...
  16. bajabuc

    How do ya make good Charcloth?

    One of the first jobs the apprentice gunsmith had to do was MAKE his tools. Files, screwdrivers, thread blocks, saws, hammers, vices, boring machines, reamers, riflers and the rest of the tools needed to make a flintlock rifle...he didn't go buy them, he made them...(Foxfire 5) Consider self...
  17. bajabuc

    my first flintlock

    I think much faster than I type...was supposed to say Colt Black Powder revolver. Uberti made that issue of Colt's that came out in the 1970's
  18. bajabuc

    How do ya make good Charcloth?

    has anybody ever tried the eastern..as in China, Siam and like that...compression lighter? I have one. works great. It's a thickwalled hardwood stick with a hole drilled in it. there's a dowel that fits in the hole and is pretty much the same size as the hole. Some kind of tinder is placed...
  19. bajabuc

    How do ya make good Charcloth?

    Altoids boxes haven't changed in shape or design for 200 years. By all means use one...and take it in your possibles bag...it's period!!!
  20. bajabuc

    Just plain fun

    :thumbsup: I used to go prarie dog hunting with a flintlock. When you're laying on your back loading it takes a while...by the time you're loaded the prarie dogs are back up. Bang...reload. With anything else it gets borrring!!
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