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  1. Musketeer

    First Center Seam Sheath

    Looks great. This is one of my favorite sheath styles, and it also has a long, long history, having been popular from the Middle Ages (and perhaps earlier) right up until the early 20th century with some makers. 👍
  2. Musketeer

    Flintlock **** removal

    Amen. Sadly, this is a lesson it took me several times over the years to learn, but I was far happier once I got it through my thick skull. 😳👍
  3. Musketeer

    The flint that does not fail

    So the wheel scrapes against a little piece of ferro rod (like a Zippo flint) that's inside the mechanism the wheel is attached to and the leather just helps rotate the wheel when it hits the frizzen? I've never seen one of these before, so I'm trying to figure out how it works.
  4. Musketeer

    I have grown weary.

    Pyro always worked dandy for me in caplocks, and I used it in them for years. I have not tried it in a flintlock other than to put some pinches of P granulation in a couple of pans. Ignition is about 1 in 5 times in my India flint pistol and maybe 3 of 5 in my Bess. I will have to try...
  5. Musketeer

    Flintlock half **** for long period of time?

    As Trapper noted, what kills springs is either many, many cycles of compression/decompression or pushing them beyond their design limits. Leaving springs compressed for any realistic amount of time will not hurt a spring that is well made and well heat treated. A hunting trip, whether measured...
  6. Musketeer

    Black powder and the military?

    The M-249 LMG was designed and built by FN in Belgium. Once adopted, US service guns have been made at an FN factory in South Carolina. They could do the same with powder. Assuming they still have substantial use for black powder, and assuming GOEX goes under, they would probably contract...
  7. Musketeer

    The GOEX Plant is shutting down

    The Schuetzen brand is a joint operation between Petro-Explo, Inc. of Texas and WANO powder of Germany. I'm assuming this was done to facilitate the availability and sale of WANO's products in the USA. There's always the possibility the two could strike some kind of deal to start making the...
  8. Musketeer

    Problem with Pyrodex pistol pellets

    I didn't know that either, but 'tis true: Click Here.
  9. Musketeer

    children of the 70s....

    I was born in '70, but this doesn't ring any bells. I do remember I'm Just a Bill from Schoolhouse Rock, if that counts. 😄
  10. Musketeer

    Musket caps

    They are, but their musket caps are contracted out to a company called Maxam Outdoors in Spain, according to the box. Maxam makes a variety of ammunition and components. 👍
  11. Musketeer

    Which Indian (from India) Brown Bess?

    Veteran offers an artillery carbine as well, but it's in .75 rather than the more correct .65 of the one from Loyalist. If you want a shorter .75, though, there it is. Click Here
  12. Musketeer

    A guy from Poland actually built this.

    He needs to make an ankle holster for it. 👍
  13. Musketeer

    1Fg?

    Some prefer it in large smoothbores, like Grenadier noted, and it's also frequently used in the reloading of larger cartridges for BP unmentionables.
  14. Musketeer

    Unknown Flintlock Pistol - Help needed!

    To be fair, until I'd been seriously into MLs for about a decade, had I seen this in some antique place I'd have thought it was a real gun. The crudeness would have just made me think it was made in a hut in some 3rd world location, sort of like the "Dane" guns so common in parts of Africa...
  15. Musketeer

    Help for old eyes

    Here's a pic of them in their case and one attached to a pair of specs. As said above, they have a sort of tackiness to them but no adhesive. If you've ever seen those non-permanent vinyl decals you can put on windows that stick through some sort of magic (static cling? natural tackiness?)...
  16. Musketeer

    Help for old eyes

    Best wishes for a good outcome to both situations. 👍
  17. Musketeer

    Help for old eyes

    If you have a couple of particular guns that you do most of your shooting with, getting a couple of good quality peep sights would be a great idea. For a solution that isn't specific to any particular gun, I second the Eye Pal. I wear glasses for near-sightedness, so with my glasses on I can...
  18. Musketeer

    A good day grouse hunting.

    I believe this is a 12ga (per another thread). That jalapeno/bacon thing sounds incredible, btw. Thanks for the idea, Deerman.
  19. Musketeer

    Music for Canon Battles

    I always feel a twinge of pity for the men who actually did this sort of thing for real way back when. It must've been absolutely terrifying. 🙏
  20. Musketeer

    Hunting with Smoothbore

    Look at it this way, using BB size shot as an example, a steel pellet weighs about 5.1 or 5.2 grains, while a lead pellet weighs about 8.75 grains, making the lead ~42% heavier than the steel. Obviously the steel will have to have a good bit more velocity to get sufficient penetration at a...
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