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    Rehardening frizzens - one size fits all? Musings for metallurgy masterminds....

    Either Fred Stutzenburger or the Bevel Brothers in Muzzle Blasts highly recommends never using the depleted uranium frizzen material. Hazardous to breathe particulate matter or come in contact with people on the firing line as well as yourself. Used it once in the 70's and still have a full...
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    Cleaning jag getting stuck

    May we assume that the TC Renegade is used from a previous owner? Good advice to here. My patches did not getstuck when lubed or wet but final drying would get stuck unless I switched to a smaller diameter jag. Always used boiling water for major clean and pre soak with some drops of Dawn in...
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    RWS CAPS-1075 PLUS

    Used them since 1974 on rifles and revolvers. Only one misfire from an old tin gotten at a shoot. Preferred over CCI, Remington or Winchester.
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    A first attempt at a Gourd Canteen

    Lagenaria siceraria is genus and species for a Corsican canteen gourd; cucurbits pepo; gourds were the earliest known domesticated plant. I prefer flat round canteen gourds for canteens. Alfred Jacob Miller has painting of bottle neck gourd canteen but have found no primary sources for the...
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    How I Stripe my Ram Rods. A how-to video.

    A striped ramrod is easier to find on the forest floor if you for some reason put it there. I used to soak my hickory rods in kerosene or coal oil for buggy whip flexibility but it would not take on stain and burned bad when using a torch. Painter's masking tape spiraled in the same rate of...
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    The Tenuous Future of Living History

    I teach fourth graders and adults Colorado and Bent's Fort history. It was an economic, cultural and geographic cross roads on the Santa Fe Trail. Many cultures were represented and discussed and portrayed at the historic park site. Mulatto James Beckwourth (Beckwith), Charlotte Green the...
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    The Tenuous Future of Living History

    Lot of changes there since I first visited in late '80's and not for the better. Have taught and volunteered at Fort William on the Arkansas (Bent's Old Fort) near La Junta. Jake Koch, a current director will give a lecture on The Dissolution of Bent's Old Fort - 175 years later at Fort...
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    Hawk New England Fowler

    By the way, exquisite, beautiful job. Quite inspiring s usual.
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    Hawk New England Fowler

    Will look forward to your maple stocked rifle with English fowler style stock. Have parts to work on a John Newcomer style rifle but in flintlock instead of percussion and fancy curly maple from Freddie Harrison, 48" long Getz swamped barrel in .60 caliber and iron, not brass fowler furniture...
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    Question Regarding Woman Rondy Attire

    Fort des Chartre events tries really hard at promoting authenticity and good research. Eliza Spaulding and Narcissa Whitman were missionary wives at an actual Rocky Mountain rendezvous and dressed prim and proper for the fashion of the time. Rest were Native American women. Big difference...
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    weight of trigger pull on a Kibler Woodsrunner

    Also changed FLINTERS to flinders. Computers suck.
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    weight of trigger pull on a Kibler Woodsrunner

    I've never had a deer, elk or bear or pronghorn spook while setting a rear set trigger or cocking the **** back on my flinders. Hunting 50 plus years with game meat to prove for it. If you are stationary and stable in a ground blind or tree stand you can put a frizzen cover on the frizzen and...
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    CUT AT THE MUZZLE, ROUND OR SQUARE

    ZUG, are those hole boring bits with teeth ground off and sharpened to use on a drill press? What size hole cutters fit what size patch for what caliber of round ball? Those at Ace seemed pricey and not sure if Harbor Freight's quality worth the money. Would square patches in a bullet...
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    Breech plug removal. Jag and cloth stuck in barrel

    How much damage is there to the jag and the rod? If just a cleaning patch or if over powder and patched round ball? Pouring water down the barrel to loosen stuck patch and jag seems best first choice. What does the breech face on the TC plugs look like? I have a White Mountain Carbine and...
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    Do you gut your deer?

    The latest fad is to process game on its belly. Slit hide along spine and retrieve quarters, loin without disturbing guts under the ribs. Have to move the backbone to access the tenderloins. This method ruins the hide for brain tanning - edges of back are thick and middle of unorthodox...
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    Do you gut your deer?

    I gut and skin my game animal as soon as possible and tag it before moving in vehicle. Process animal in camp. Kept under ice in cooler if hot. Let hang overnight and cool down before cutting and wrapping. The longer the hanging in 40 degree and colder the less tough the muscle will be...
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    Loss of accuracy…

    If the breech face is bored out smaller than bore diameter, then a cleaning patch will stop at the front of that chamber of the patent breech. Unless you have a fouling scraper that is custom matched to that cavity, you won't get the fouling cleaned out well. Each time you push a moist...
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    Loss of accuracy…

    45man. Where do you find Young Country Arms lube? I started with it in 1974 but thought they went out of business. Called 103 lube and claimed to be able to shoot 103 times without swabbing. Was good stuff, biodegradable. Ibothell, What are you using to clean between shots with? Too...
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    How many years Muzzleloading experience?

    52 years
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    Knife??

    No. Not resemble period correct. Forged blades often had tapered tangs. Six or five steel, not brass pins. Good booklet by Hanson and Wilson is Fur Trade Cutlery. I.(John) Wilson trade knives good examples to model after. Butchers, scalpers and cartouche knives most prevalent shapes in...
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