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    Wooden ramrods?

    I use my wooden rod for everything out in the field, if it breaks I make a new one ,the best is hickory.i'm not using hickory now but I won't say what it is cause others might say it will impale you! It hasn't and most break when you push them to hard or don't use a short starter ash will make a...
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    Dang! I need Somethin' W/ Double Triggers

    As said ,set ,properly used are of great use on targets as well as game.I don't set it until I'm ready to shoot however,I have not experimented with wether setting it before hand endangers the mechanism,but unless i'm in a good position to take a prepared shot at game or a target ,it 's not...
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    Let's see some "Poor-boys".

    I fashioned a leather cover to protect the brass buttplate on my flinter no reason it would not work on them poor boys to even better effect
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    Let's see some "Poor-boys".

    Mike Brooks, I'd be tempted to build something on it ,Might have to build it up with some epoxy though!definately poor boy
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    lefty shooting right handed flintgun

    A local store has a lefty Lyman and I have been tempted to buy it and I'm right handed,I've thpought about it since and I might still do it ,I don't see any real issues,unlike other types of rifle in lefty.
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    The Gift

    I recieved my blueridge from a friends wife after he passed away from a sudden heart attack,I went to see him the day it happened ,I knocked and got no answer and instead of going in as I sometimes did,I figured maybe he wanted to sleep,I left and found out later about his death,talk about a...
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    pics of groups using tc barrel

    What Iwas trying to say was maybe you should try a thinner patch,my .54 [renegade]would actually call for a .010 as does my .50
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    pics of groups using tc barrel

    I just started working up my .50 Renegade barrel ,I've had it for years but always used my .54 so I went to the 50. but I went technical and measured ball an groove dia. and all came up with .010 as a correct patch size,[I always just grabbed .018 ticking before because that's what the store...
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    is this the "early " rifle

    Mike Brooks, You know,...I am a Hawken kinda guy but, I could not begin to compliment that rifle enough to give it justice,Maybe it's my German blood ,if I had the money and a choice of the 2 rifles staring at me in the face.I honestly gotta say..and it's not easy ,but I would really want that...
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    Matchlocks and wheellocks in American Revolution

    ld imagine if there were any of either it was a emergency [as in that story] a real fluke or perhaps in a fort where possibly somebody had one in a collection and every working gun was needed[there were gun collectors then]rich gentlemen or high ranking officers who even then knew the neccesity...
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    Mule Ear Lock on T/C

    your right ,I didn't think about the drum tightening thing it probably would loosen up pretty quick and wouldn't take much to be kaput my apologies.
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    Mule Ear Lock on T/C

    Well it's a cool way to do it but you could do it using a flint barrel and just trade a drum and nipple with the touchole liner but the muleear lock is just as cool- actually more cool to me.
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    information for CVA 50 caliber, barrel made in USA

    I don't know the facts for sure but I had an old frontier kit from a yard sale -35.00 and it sure was a shooter it said ''made in U.S.A. I always assumed thats what it meant and did not know you could say that and not be so.maybe a small fly by night firm but a large one? anyway IT was a...
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    CVA / T/C Thompson Centre / Investarms Hawken Rifle problems

    I wish I could see what you are really saying,Because a beech is stronger [I think,somebody correct me if I'm wrong]the stronger of the two and beyond that if it got bulged the barrel is probably effected also ,in any case an ispection by a knowledgable person is called for 1.somebody who knows...
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    Polishing brass before the days of wet or dry sandpaper.

    shark skin was used as sheet abrasives are used today and was it me ,I would seek out finer and coarser grades of sand as well as sediments of softer and harder materials and rub with leather or clothe for round or soft effect or use a board for a flat finish effect.
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    Latter Day Jaeger

    I've often considered my Renegade ,as to what it would most closely be allied with historically and I gotta go with a Jaeger ,even as a percussion ,[I have seen a Genuine percussion jaeger,made as a flintlock and converted later to a percussion] and I have considered a whole hog restyling to a...
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    mold of lead for lead

    by adding a little tin you lower the melting temp of the lead for the bullet by keeping the mold cold it doesn't come as close to melting point either the bullets might be a little hard and might be froosty looking and the layer of soot keeps it further from a tendency to mix or melt together...
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    sewing beads on buckskins or suede

    yeah,I hear ya',even the threads look kinda cool on that work,thanks for the larnin'
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    sewing beads on buckskins or suede

    THAT is the part I missed-thank you-that would have saved me all that ugly exposed thread on the underside which is why I wasn't sure about being correct,I'll do better next time thanks.This has become very informative and answered a lot of questions for me.I gave a little and recieved a lot!
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    Need ideas for a Flintlock primer

    Horner 75,I kind of tend to agree with you on that one as simpler does work as well ,and if it works as well why would a backwoodsman double up his concerns on powder aquisition?A primer applicator makes it a bit easier to put a tiny bit of powder in the pan but practice makes perfect on that...
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