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    Bedding Your Rifle Barrel

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    Bedding Your Rifle Barrel

    Probably does not help much in accuracy,however,unless you planning to shoot in a primitive match where it can disqualify you,it can’t hurt to have a perfect bed for your barrel and as for why I used it,frankly and honestly I made mistakes as a first time barrel inletter that left 4 small small...
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    Barrel Channel Issue on a New Stock

    1/32 is too small to risk cutting unless your experienced,sanding is also imprecise to take off that much,the middle of the road method is scraping ,which works well with a good tool,the est tool is one made by Gunline,however ,at this point in time,they seem to be having production or shipping...
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    Ridiculous Cap Pricing

    Ohh don’t I know it,England and France simply have fine grades of flint,Not only that but some flint simply isn’t too good for knapping so you have to know where good flint is,Native Americans and Stone Age people ,no doubt ,knew the sources or traded for them,there are lots of indications of “...
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    Suspicious Hawken Rifle

    I’m no Hawken expert,my Lyman is a dead ringer to me.however I have a fowler from about 1800-1830 ,that I am rebuilding ,the stock was really in bad shape -it’s being replaced ,but the inside of the English lock by Phillips show’s no pitting or rust just old colored steel,that lock looks rusted...
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    Ridiculous Cap Pricing

    You don’t have to buy flints you can find them,it’s a gift from the earth mother.I recently ran into a fellow that makes bows ,and arrows AND MAKES AND FINDS, flint arrowheads he makes and hunts successfully all legal game and needs to buy little.flint lockers who can Knapp are similarly well...
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    Vermont Black Powder Firearm Laws

    If you need it it spelled out ask Vermont state officials,It sounds like they would be open and honest.If asking New York officials ,be careful what you ask and say,also admit nothing,deny everything and be prepared to quietly walk away.
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    What Lock is this?

    I wish I could see this rifle
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    Original smooth bore resto

    I have a piece of cherry that is cut out and might work but has some flaws that might be a no I,have to rough finish it to see,it it’s no good I’ll cut another walnut is a great wood ,but unspectacular,maple cherry would be my choice I have a curly maple stock that is for my lymanGPR that is...
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    How would one go about removing a breech plug

    Just using that as an example,and removing a breech plug is( TC,Lyman and similar) not something you have to do in the course of being a shooter and hunter.however,if you desire the ability to be a hobby or professional gunsmith on muzzleloaders It is a skill and technique which should not be...
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    How would one go about removing a breech plug

    Because screws are meant to tighten and untighten and if you can’t get them to untighten you must not be doing it right SO you have something to learn if they were not meant to be removed why were they not just welded or forged closed? No ,they were threaded so....removable. you must have to...
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    Original smooth bore resto

    Sorry I got turned around a couple of days ,not lost!yeahi will get it together and take pics thanks
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    Roger's Rangers-musket accuracy

    I wonder,on a side note, why these were cast aside instead of given to the smith for recycling to knives,accessory’s ,hawks etc. how many of these barrel stubs were actually found? Surely the camp must have employed a blacksmith/ farrier/ gunsmith to repair and modify not just guns but all the...
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    Original smooth bore resto

    My project is restoration of an original Birmingham ...for want of a better description,Northeast trade gun, obtained at a auction for $50 barrel is good with a fair bore ,lock was a flint converted to percussion and also works all the metal is in fair shape ,seems to be about 12 ga. With...
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    Linseed oil

    Tru oil works for me also just did a Marlin looked great now I have two BP stocks projects ,a cherry and a curly maple
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    How would one go about removing a breech plug

    I tried that once in the end I felt that it was not that necessary and did not damage anything,however my stubborn German Irish inner self still wants to do it so... so ...badly!I may have to before I die or it will kill me! Lol
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    Restoration

    My project is restoration of an original Birmingham ...for want of a better description,Northeast trade gun, obtained at a auction for $50 barrel is good with a fair bore ,lock was a flint converted to percussion and also works all the metal is in fair shape ,seems to be about 12 ga. With...
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    CVA mountain rifle flint lock?

    I had an early flint Mountain CVA ,it was a real good shooter as far as accuracy goes,the flint,mostly ignited the powder fair but was not a real good sparker and for a rifle, to me ,the lock looked to small but,on the range she was the most accurate muzzleloader I had.she cost me $ 35 at a yard...
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    Pan priming

    I made a priming tool really nice piece of antler but after awhile I did like the long hunters and mountain men probably did for simplicity's sake,and now I prime with what I am shooting,usually 3 f,it is one less tool to worry about,I use a homemade cows knee for protection in inclement weather
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    Wet weather

    I would venture to say here that the difference in the two is ,in my limited chemical knowledge(I know enough to help/ or perhaps just enough to be dangerous!) aluminum oxide is basically already burnt ( oxide=oxidized= burnt or previously reacted with oxygen )where aluminum powder is...
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