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    Why brass over copper?

    True coin and sterling silver much harder than lead and melts at much higher temperature. Cast .530 round ball for werewolf flintlock pistol. Wound up investing wax cast in mold and using a jeweler's centrifugal caster and crucible to make them. Casting port and tree and spouts took up a...
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    Flame thrower

    Lee Good at Claremore, Oklahoma J. M.Davis museum was a wealth of knowledge and had a monthly column in Muzzle Blasts back when. Friend with an original and copy shoots tennis balls more than 200 yards. Thought about trying to drop tennis balls down through the smoke flaps of the rendezvous...
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    Lack of cylinder safety pins

    My Uberti replica of a Remington New Model Army has notches between nipples that the hammer can safely rest with all six charges loaded. Picked up a stainless Ruger Old Army and have to check out the geometry of hammer and nipples. But it may have a transfer bar like on the Super Blackhawk...
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    WITHDRAWN Western Arms Santa Fe Jedediah Smith Hawken

    Nicely built. Was the barrel shortened? Front entry pipe awfully close to muzzle. Who made the barrel? Will it take a .526 round ball or best with a .520? Any targets showing groups? Who owned, ran Western Arms?
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    Ground Cloth for Museum Wedge

    Vivatex and Sunforger are commercial treatments for tents, tipis, tarps and ground cloths. Most re enactment tent makers will carry it. I have liners or dew cloths from 7 different tipis that make good ground cloths. Panther Primitives makes a liner with tie in loops for their wedge tents.
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    LOOKING FOR BUFFALO TONGUE RECIPES.

    Sam Arnold's Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail and The Fort Cookbook. Also Shinin'' Times at the Fort by Holly Arnold Kinney. Nice PBS video or program called A Taste of History. It features a professional chef cooking tongue, cactus and tortillas with a staff member at Bent's Old Fort in La...
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    Wood grade 5

    Ordered a fancily, tight grained curly maple stock from Freddie Harrison of Tennessee on a bison hunt near Fort Wallace, Kansas in the nineties and canoed to Fort Des Chartres to pick it up. Was in the $200 range in the 1990's and never regretted purchasing it.
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    SOLD Sold

    Unless the toe plate is jigged bone it looks a lot more like a slab of antler, not bone. Congrats on your purchase, Terrier.
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    What's up with Flints?...

    I highly recommend against using obsidian. Shatters like the glass it is. Obisidan is definitely not flint. The black, gray and brown "flint" from Texas is really a chert. Georgetown, Edwards Plateau, Root Beer, Knife River, Fort Hood area all make good gun flints. With a diamond saw you...
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    Ice Box

    Bent's Old Fort in Colorado operated from 1833 - 1849. They had an ice cellar to store ice. Could make lemonade with lemon syrup and Hailstorms with rum in the summer.. Young George Bent was admonished for hanging out in the ice cellar in the middle of the summer. My grandparents had a...
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    The Revenant.

    Frederick Manfred wrote Lord Grizzly in 1954. Manfred is not his legal name. Look up Lord Grizzly on Wickipedia for a complete and interesting background on him and his book. His son in law wrote a screen play based on Frederick's book but never got made into a movie.
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    The Revenant.

    There was a scene is the Revenant where Leondardo DiCaprio fired a flintlock pistol twice in about 15 seconds. On horseback in battle with French voyageurs or courier des bois. Dr. James Hanson of the Museum of the Fur Trade was hired as a historical consultant for good money and his advice was...
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    Tent Decision help

    Many western themed rendezvous allow pyramid tents but for all those who claim they are period correct for pre-1840 encampments, none can come up with definitive documentation. "Prairie tipis" and miner's one pole pyramids have four flat walls - not conical. Miner's tents are post 1840 -...
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    char cloth

    Ted Cash tobacco container with the burning lens. Protect char on bottom with pad of leather. Protect glass from getting scratched from the flint and fire steel with another similar shaped pad on top of everything. I sell "Championship Char" cloth wrapped in brown paper sack or newspaper...
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    Weird Fullstock Rifle

    Rancocas. Are all those rifles left hand or right hand with image reversed? Without a cant block, would resting the rifle on the log for multiple shot relays against the ramrod pipe, ramrod or forestock with the ramrod out scuff the pipe, rod or stock? For shooting one shot at a tethered golf...
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    Barber pole stripe on a ramrod.

    Colonial Rifle Smith, Was curious where you read about burn striping Native American arrows? Heating wood can plasticize the lignin to help stiffen it. Pressure by "boning" to compress the cellulose fibers of wood will stiffen it too. Heat with grease is used when straightening an arrow...
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    hunters, how do you handle your deer once it is down?

    Old wives tale of tarsal glands tainting meat. If it is does, when you cut them out you taint the blade. Wyoming game warden proved that in cooking the bad taste is gone. Taxidermists hate when a hunter cuts the throat if doing a head mount. No need to bleed the animal especially in a...
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    What ML movie should be made now?

    Do the Hugh Glass story but get it right by having a historian write script. So much diversion from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and Last of Mohican that an accurate remake from the books should be done. Life and times of the real John Liver Eatiin' Johnston. James Kirker...
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    Looking for suggestions as to how to get into hunting

    I applaud your decision to learn to hunt and you are wise to ask for recommendations. There are too many tragic accidents during hunting season that could be averted if the hunters had good training and applied the safety rules. We aren't born with nor follow common sense. Hunter safety...
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    What is the smallest size diameter ramrod brass pin that can be found?

    Pancanis asks a good question on wall thickness of your ramrod tip. Steel piano wire is strong but can slide out of hole and scratch the bore. Finish nail and brass are softer. Tip with enough thickness to countersink allows you to peen the ends of your annealed pin so it stays put and once...
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