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    Denatured Alcohol

    Forgot to mention that denatured alcohol burns hotter and cleaner in alcohol burners than isopropyl. I use the denatured when heat straightening arrow shafts and ramrods. Grease the wood first and don't scorch or burn it.
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    Denatured Alcohol

    Wood alcohol is not for human combustion whereas grain alcohol is. Methanol vs ethanol and you don't have to add anything to the one to make it poisonous. Isopropyl alcohol is not as pure as denatured and has some water in it. I used denatured for degreasing before glueing some projects...
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    Gold HB and cinnamon bear capote.

    I wouldn't line it with anything. If you do and they get soaked, they won't dry out at the same rate and you risk rotting the bear hide. Dressed buffalo robes were worn hair in and flesh side out with some painted. Look at Bodmer and Catlin paintings to see how Native Americans did it...
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    Curved buttstock placement on the arm/shoulder..........

    I watched the black powder to how to shoot video in detail. I would caution anyone from pouring a charge of black powder directly from a cut-off spout flask. Not as dangerous as pouring directly from a powder horn but still a big no-no. Any safety range officer in any of our clubs would call...
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    Patch lube for round ball shooting..........Lawdy.

    Went back through all the threads on this but never found out what is referred to as Russell's Teampot by French Colonial. Is this in another post or did I miss it?
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    Curved buttstock placement on the arm/shoulder..........

    For offhand shooting curved buttstocks on smaller (.45 or less) caliber rifles are comfortable and in my humble opinion, more accurate that a flat buttplate shoved against the hollow spot beside the pectoral muscle. Most of the original Southern mountain and poor boy rifles I've seen are...
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    touch hole liners

    A slotted touch hole liner needs to be indexed with screw slot horizontal or in line with the top of the pan. . If you leave it at 90 degree ( not parallel or other angle) to the top of the pan the gas cutting from shooting will erode the bolster where the lock butts against the barrel and...
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    Tools for removing barrel pins?

    On some rifles the width of the stock is not the same so you can file notches on the shank of the different length pins to identify where they go. One notch for forward pin closest to muzzle, two for middle and three for farthest from muzzle or if four, four notches on pin closest to breech...
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    A Random Question

    I concur with what Smoothshooter said. If the lock and touch hole are on the right side of your flintlock it is more than courtesy but range safety protocol to notify the shooter to your right that you are about to touch your flinter off. Saying "flintlock", "rock lock" or "flinter" loud...
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    Wowser….

    Nice acquisition. If you intend to hunt with it you owe it to yourself and the animal/s you pursue to wring out the best accuracy with it and be confident with what load works best. I see no problem ptting 100 rounds through it. 5 shot groups from a bench at 25 yards until you get the...
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    How Far Can You Make Successful Kill Shots ?.

    Good advice for practice but I use 3" for 25 yds, 5" for 50 and 8" for 100. I bowhunt and do the same exercise with an 8" paper plate out to 50 and limit myself to whatever I can hit on the first shot with a primitive bow and arrow - no sights. Some years it is 30 yds, others 40. Last fall...
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    Blowing down the barrel

    House guests and fish tends to get old and smell bad after three days. Old posts too, maybe but if a newbie on the forum can get some safety insights from the discussion, maybe it should run occasionally or if kept in a file, direct that newbie to old discussions. From the 70's on in Kansas...
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    River Cane Uses

    TDM posted good use as material for Native American flutes - flagolets
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    River Cane Uses

    Smaller short diameter of cane good for pipe stems to ceramic pipe bowls. Lashed together for bird cages and fish weirs for trapping. Made lots of arrows and atlatl darts from cane. Two main kinds in the U.S. Switch cane is Arundinaria tecta - found in Tallequah, Oklahoma on or near...
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    Pheasant down.

    Congrats on successful hunt and thanks for enjoyable recounting. Curious as to your load. I can see maybe 60 grains of fine powder but the 500 has me curious. In my 12 and 11 gauge front stuffers, 85 to 90 gr FFg and equivalent volume of #5 or #6 shot works. I don't think I'd put 500 grains...
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    Curlys .72 caliber north west trade gun

    Coinneach, did Curly ever give you any specifics on left hand trade guns in the 1800's? My .72 or 12 gauge is left handed but will re stock and any historic examples would be helpful for the rebuild. 120 grains of FFg under a .715 round ball gave me best hunting accuracy and knock down but...
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    JB Weld temporary sight attachment

    Might try E 6000 but wear rubber gloves. There is a product sold by Brownells with the word Black in it. Is a super strong and expensive epoxy that I may try instead of JB Weld for a glue on rear sight for a Tulle on the round part of half octagon-half round barrel. Probably too strong and...
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    The last hawken I’ll ever have to buy! Roller, Weimer, England!

    All the halfstock and fullstock Hawkens I have seen andhandled have only the heel of the buttplate touching the ground when the barrel is vertical. The toe of the butt is off the ground. The Lyman "Hawken" did not include this is their replica nor do many modern knock offs. Bob Roller locks...
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    Muzzleloading Myths

    Ned Roberts book The Muzzle Loading Caplock Rifle mentions his Uncle Alvaro who was a sniper in the Civil War. They used what they called straight starters. The Rev War sample is news to me. Museum of the Fur Trade short starter - do they have a date assigned to it?
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    An old Walmart rifle for eye candy.

    Beautiful rifle, workmanship and the lock on the "right" side of the rifle. Looks like the patch box release is on the end of the heel of the buttplate. How does it shoot? If it shoots as good as it looks you got a real winner there. Had not heard of this maker. Thanks for sharing.
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