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    Hello from Colorado

    Welcome from Colorado. Lots of ml clubs that shoot traditional. Depending on where you live can find shoots weekly. Recommend joining the Colorado State Muzzleloading Association to keep abreast of shoots, etc. If you need a sponsor you can pm me. The Colorado Gun Collectors Association...
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    Random photos of famous ML percussion/flint guns, or rather guns owned by either famous people or during famous events

    Going soon to see Jeff and Jim Gordon's Museum where the Tobin rifle is. Not heard of a documented James Beckwourth or Beckwith rifle that was stolen. Interesting article somewhere of Jedediah Smith's recovered pistol, one of a set of two. But purported to be missing, stolen from a California...
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    Left handed rifles

    Muzzleloaders made left handed were definitely historically correct but were exceptions rather than the rule. Landis Valley Museum exhibit catalog shows not only lefties but those weird stocks designed for right hand shooters with left dominant eyes so nicely illustrated by Loyalist Dave...
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    Trade whiskey

    Sam'l P. Arnold in his book EATING UP THE Santa Fe TRAIL has the following to say about trade whiskey additives and flavorings. "***** WHISKEY. 1 cup water. 2 tablespoons cut tobacco, 4 small dried red peppers, 1/2 teaspoon black gunpowder (DO NOT USE MODERN HIGH SPEED POWDER, WHICH IS...
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    What makes a good patch knife?

    George Andrix, It might surprise a lot of folks but many Native Americans often sharpened only one side of their knives. A single bevel on the left side of the blade for left handers and right side for right handers works quite well for cutting patches. The reverse for scrolling out meat...
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    Your Fav. Vegetable Oil for Making Lubes

    Were there any experiments with Teflon as a patch lube so years back? It doesn't qualify under a vegetable oil list of lubes but I know if was used on non stick pans and skillets in lieu of vegetable oils. Breaks down around 500 degrees Fahrenheit and is considered harmful to human health.
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    Your Fav. Vegetable Oil for Making Lubes

    If Jojoba oil is considered a vegetable oil then esterified jojoba or an ester of it is similar to Sperm Whale Oil which is no longer marketed. Rendered bear oil with beeswax is a home made favorite but neither are vegetable oil nor handy to come by in the grocer store aisles. Rubbing alcohol...
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    What do you think of this knife

    Beaver tail laminated to leather. No fringe but scalloped white brain tan trim with brass tacks to hold it in place.
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    Finishing nails for barrel pins

    Cut off the four flanges on the point and index each pin with a file or saw mark to correspond with the right barrel lug. Put your mark on the right or left end of each pin so you know what direction to always enter the hole. If they are loose or fall out you can bend them slightly. Break...
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    What do you think of this knife

    An usual shape. Would be most practical as a bush craft knife. Has thick enough spine to baton or split wood kindling or "H" (aitch) bones at pelvis and breast bones. Sharpened clip good for skinning bark off saplings or roots . Under belly curve good for gathering material like rope to...
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    How Made This "Hawken"

    Griffith made three styles of breech plugs. A straight hooked flint breech. A cap lock hooked breech with a snail, also straight, not slanted. And a simple breech plug that was an extension of the tang. They were cast but the tangs were soft enough to cold bend. The first mentioned is on my...
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    Real Hawken or not?

    It doesn't surprise me that the four squirrel rifles all had different sights. I found my old photos of a rifle re done in the Hawken shop in 1846. "Old Blackfoot's" rear sight is perpendicular to the barrel and not angled as seen on so many Plains rifles. It's barrel was refreshed and the...
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    Flintlock smith needed

    The barrel looks like a Green Mountain LRH or long range hunter with faster twist. Don't know what kind of flintlock is on the stock. Depending on existing hole and thread in the touch hole you could install the Chambers White Lightning touch hole liner. However their threads are finer than...
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    Real Hawken or not?

    Kabulrocks, thanks for sending the three videos and photos of the J. M. Davis Museum Hawken squirrel rifle. I liked the idea of using the video part of the cell phone camera to do the recording. And three different angles from butt to muzzle. Am headed to Jim Gordon's Museum and trying to...
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    Real Hawken or not?

    warlike39, From what I can see in the photo, the bore is not hexagonal as in a Whitworth but 7 grooves and lands which was typical of rifles from Sam and Jakes St. Louis shop. Maybe you can verify this. The S. Hawken St. Louis barrel stamp can be compared to those of other rifles of known...
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    Salmon Leather

    Tanned fish skins have been used to back sinewed backed bows for waterproofing and camouflage. Had sriracha glazed salmon with home made mango salsa for supper. Never thought of washing it down with smoked salmon flavored whiskey. Whatcha gonna make with them?
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    Got my Woodsrunner But!

    I have worked at UPS and the USPS. The majority of folks there are decent, hard working and conscientious. When you do get the occasional misfit and disaster, report it right away with as much documentation as you can as soon as you can. I got a damaged custom made bow sent back from a...
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    Let's Talk About The R E Davis Late Ketland Lock. Great? OK? Junk?

    Ron Long of Denver was the original maker of these locks. Sold the rights to them to Tom Faux when he quit to concentrate on Ballard rifles. Was a dispute over proprietorship between Tom and Davis. Have had experience with R. E. Davis left hand Hawken flint lock kit and finished Twigg right...
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    Here's the latest from Jud Brennan!

    Who made the 7 groove, 7 land round bottomed rifle barrel? Looks like it has a very shallow crown and not funneled or coned. What does Jud recommend feeding it? 90 grains FFg with .610 round ball and .015 thick patch? Like how high he pinned the pivot for the simple trigger. Good geometry...
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    I have a soft frizzen!

    Kasenit is no longer available. Something about cyanide gas as by product. Another replacement hardening product is out on the market. Both only put a case hardening skin on the surface and does not temper the frizzen all the way through which is preferable. Haven't used it so can't vouch...
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