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  1. Musketeer

    Music for Canon Battles

    Canonical cannon. :thumb:
  2. Musketeer

    Saw handle flintlock gun

    Talk about a low bore axis. If this took Glock mags it'd be wildly popular these days. 😄
  3. Musketeer

    Starting out casting balls and bullets

    I have a Lee Precision Production Pot IV and a few molds (Lee and Lyman, depending on size I needed). The rest of my "kit" is a pair of polycarb safety goggles, a pair of heavy leather gloves, a stainless table spoon (for stirring in flux and skimming dross off the top of the pot), a plastic...
  4. Musketeer

    Firing the ramrod down range.

    If you have a musket with a steel rammer, firing it out might work well for spear fishing. 😄
  5. Musketeer

    Pigeons with the 45 Kentucky.

    I was meaning to ask you, Brit, are these smoothbore "rifles" a factory option available in the UK due to your gun/hunting laws (as in made just for the UK market)? I assume so, but you know what they say about assuming. 😄
  6. Musketeer

    Help Identify?

    Trigger and guard scream FIE also.
  7. Musketeer

    New Member From North Georgia Mountains

    Welcome aboard. :thumb:
  8. Musketeer

    Modifying a knife edge

    I love convex edges. I don't have very steady hands and have never been able to get a really great V edge on bench stones, so I use an Edge Pro guided system on those; however, my convex edged knives are easy peasy to do by hand, since you are working with a gentle curve rather than a sharp...
  9. Musketeer

    How we ordered before the internet

    I remember the wait. No tracking back in those days, you just kept checking the mailbox every day. Looking back, there was something cool about the anticipation, though I didn't feel that way at the time. 👍
  10. Musketeer

    Interesting Pocket Knife

    I agree. It looks to have been made as a sheepsfoot/spey/sampler style blade shape.
  11. Musketeer

    Birthday present

    🎂:thumb:
  12. Musketeer

    Interesting Pocket Knife

    Interesting old knife. The name doesn't ring any bells. A wild guess on my part would date it sometime in the 19th century (just based on style), though I could be way off and it could be older or newer. I'd hit up the guys over at bladeforums dot com. Those guys are to knives what we are to...
  13. Musketeer

    help with hearing problem

    Very true, nock. With standard e-muffs expect to hear snippets of conversations and be prepared to repeat yourself and have whomever you're trying to hear do the same. Still, for someone in your situation, rebs, it beats either not being able to hear anything or having the sounds of gunfire...
  14. Musketeer

    help bolster threads striped is there a fix?

    That rifle should use a drum, which is replaceable. A new one does need to be properly indexed so the nipple lines up with the hammer, so you might have to go to a smith if you aren't comfortable doing it yourself. Click Here edit: oof. SDS posted while I was posting. Looks like it's not...
  15. Musketeer

    A little bonjour from Normandy-France

    Bienvenue, mon ami. :thumb:
  16. Musketeer

    New Duelist1954 YouTube videos

  17. Musketeer

    Lead or Leather to hold the flint

    Dave's not here, man. 😄 Leather for me too. To be fair, I didn't have much luck when trying lead and leather worked fine, so I never really experimented further with it. I may try lead again in my Bess at some point and see if I can figure out what I was doing wrong, as it was historical for...
  18. Musketeer

    Load data for 1861 Colt

    Everyone has their own methods, but I've never sealed with grease/lube when using lubed wonder wads in my revolvers. No issues.
  19. Musketeer

    Kibler SMR frizzen broke in two

    I don't own a Kibler (yet...), but I've heard nothing but good about Jim as a gunmaker and as a person, so this is not surprising. Best wishes on the rest of the build. :thumb:
  20. Musketeer

    Kibler SMR frizzen broke in two

    I don't think it was anything you did, from what you describe. Could be a heat treat issue, as you suspect. Those little dark spots on both pieces look odd. Not sure if it's an inclusion in the steel or just a couple shadows where a tiny piece broke out. :dunno: I'm sure Jim will handle it...
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