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    Carolina Gun build / canoe length

    Nice work Rob. Pulled up image of left hand trade gun. What kind of lock is on it? Looking for something similar to R. E. Davis Twigg lock but in left hand for a John Newcomer style rifle with fowling gun furniture. I shoot left handed and left eye dominant. Dry fire movement of the gun...
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    Why only one?

    The logic may rest in a single shot and fair chase during muzzle loading season. Suppose one misses on the first shot with the rifle and is tempted to take the second with the pistol? The pistol won't have the range, accuracy or penetration at rifle distances. You may unnecessarily wound and...
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    Blue jean material for shooting patches...........

    Make char cloth with it. If it is "stretch to fit" and elastic it will have polyester. The 100% cotton fabric will make good char cloth, Any synthetic in it will just be stiff and crack and not catch a spark at all or slow to catch and not burn uniformly. You can read the label on the...
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    Blue jean material for shooting patches...........

    Blue jean good for cleaning patches and with a .715 round ball in a 12 gauge Curly Gostomski sitting fox barrel. For consistency I get new blue jean fabric, wash out priming and shrink in high dryer setting. Any pure 100 per cent cotton fabric I will try out for char cloth and use if right...
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    The effect of barrel length

    Somewhere my first post never got through. Question for Longcruise. What powder charge and granulation and formulation (black powder or substitute) did you use to compile your data? You quoted from the Colorado State Muzzle Loading Association. If you are a member (or not) and will be...
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    The effect of barrel length

    I forgot to mention that I use a patched round ball, not conical. On a 24 inch long barrel TC White Mountain,the same 70 grain load of FFFg shooting a .530 patched round ball is very effective to 50 yards. Beyond that the groups aren't tight enough for me to justify taking shots an animals.
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    The effect of barrel length

    Longcruise, What was the powder charge used for your tables in grains and granulation? Was it black powder or a substitute? 70 grains of FFFg in my .54 caliber with a 33 and 1/3 inch long barrel as a flint and percussion is sufficient for actual harvests on deer, elk and antelope to a hundred...
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    Dyeing Deer-Antler Powder Measures with McCormick Food Coloring

    Brokennock, You're right about horn being more collagen. It can be shaved and boiled to make hide glue. Also horn makes a better sinew backed bow or a composite bow than antler. The photo of the horn with three filed grooves gave me an idea for labelling the measure for grains. 50...
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    Shooting Pietta Navies with red toy caps

    Any problem with chain fire with enlarged flash hole in nipple and topping balls with Crisco?
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    New Hampshire

    Welcome from Colorado where many flintlock shooters and builders reside. A bit too far to mentor you.
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    New member

    Welcome from Colorado. Is the J . J. Henry a copy or original. I'd do a lot more research before restoring an original.
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    Pressure of my 12 bore?

    The 12 gauge Curly Gostomoski "Sitting Fox" barreled (smooth bore) trade gun I hunt with works well with a .715 patched round ball over 120 grains for FFg black powder. Don't know what the breech pressures are. It is more than sufficient for white tail and mule deer and loaded this heavy for...
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    Pressure of my 12 bore?

    I hunt with a 12 gauge smoothbore using a patched.715 caliber round ball over 120 grains of FFg black powder. Barrel is a Curly Gostomski Sitting Fox trade gun barrel. The charge is more than sufficient and actually overkill for white tail bucks. I carry it during bear and elk season too...
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    58 cal carbine by Mr. Hoyt in WMC stock

    I own and hunt with a .54 cal White Mountain carbine by Thompson Center. Never cared for its trigger and spring ramrod tensioner. I would lengthen both under ribs on the carbines if I owned them. Full length under ribs will reduce recoil slightly and not throw off balance point. I can see...
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    Haggis Day

    Isacc, very nice presentation and background of your area. Upton Sinclair (?)- The Jungle. Never heard of a haggis toss but did the caber. Originated to break up the formation of the Roman legion's flying wedge if I heard correct. What are neaps and tatties, peas and potatoes? Sam Arnold of...
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    Primitive Arrow(s)

    They shoot well at close distances. When arranged with a slight twist will give it a spin but not to the degree of a primary, 3 feather helical fletch. Even a straight two feather fletch will have some degree of rotation. The old wives' tail of hafting an arrowhead in line with the nock for...
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    Midway

    Just like the picture on Dr. S thread, the Remington tin says, PERCUSSION CAPS, not percussion primers. Most all primers function by hitting it with a firing pin (percussion) but not all primers are percussion caps. (209 primers used on in-lines are properly called primers.) This misnomer...
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    How safe is it to use lead round balls while hunting?

    Shogun Ryan. Lead is banned in the entire United States for waterfowl and in California for big game. Lots of good info from Nuthatch. In other states we have to be concerned with any future bans of lead for muzzle loaders. What about lead for just target shooting? It would make the game...
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    Primitive Arrow(s)

    Many Cherokee live in Oklahoma today having been transplanted from the Southeast. Tallequah is the heart or capitol of Cherokee country where they guard their cane for arrow shafts, flutes and possibly blowguns. (For blowguns giant cane - Arundinaria giganetea is best but may only be in the...
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    Number 11 cap shortage?

    I have access to #11 CCI and Remington caps at $8.99 and $10.99 a tin of 100 plus tax. The #10 and magnum percussion caps cost more. Buy as much as I can then sell to friends in local clubs that really need them for a match and not for them to resell at a huge mark up. Limit of one or two tins...
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