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  1. Khufu

    Mountain rifle?

    L&R makes the RPL lock, designed to replace the original Maslin lock, it is orders of magnitude better than the original lock and fits in the original mortise with little or no modification. that upgrade is the best thing you can do for that rifle.
  2. Khufu

    I am hooked on cap & ball

    I completely agree, and the sights usually align pretty well when the barrel is mounted straight. some I have found, have a bore diameter of .375 instead of .360 and as you mentioned variance cylinder to cylinder. if the revolver is cocked and placed on a flat surface the up/down variance of the...
  3. Khufu

    19th Century Range Finder

    I own one, use it with my Sharps 45-120, they work pretty good, I think I have the factory instructions for it, but its pretty simple, if the string is still on it and the knot is intact
  4. Khufu

    Thumb cocking Remingtons & Colts

    you know the bird's head actually moves the hammer further from your thumb. it is intended to make a belly gum more easily concealed. it would be very expensive to have a smith do it, and would make the OPs problem worse. adding a slip on hammer spur extention that secures with a set screw would...
  5. Khufu

    Use of Wax Questions / Thoughts

    in the past, I have used Birchwood Casey's Gunstock Wax. I always removed all metal, thoroughly cleaned the wood, then applied the wax. these days, I remove all metal clean the wood and apply a coat of linseed oil mixed with some coleman fuel as a thinner. I apply a thin coat and allow it to dry...
  6. Khufu

    Thumb cocking Remingtons & Colts

    your link points to Colt SAAs and they and lightnings are the only ones that you can fit them to, with a slight fitting, the bird;s head grip frame can be made to fit a '51, '60, and '61 colt. the remmies frame and gripframe are one casting, so to make it a bird's head, you would have to cut and...
  7. Khufu

    Thumb cocking Remingtons & Colts

    I know what you are asking, but I have large hands, so I do not have the problem. when I **** my revolvers, I point the barrel up and tipped to the right. I do this because fired caps tend to fall off the nipples, and into the lockworks if cocked level pointed at the target colts are the worst...
  8. Khufu

    I am hooked on cap & ball

    I need to post pictures, and explain in better detail, rather than hijack the OPs thread I will start a new thread on sighting in colt c&b revolvers. I will strip down a few and take pics and mark up the pics so I can explain in better detail
  9. Khufu

    chilled vs. magnum shot

    I used to make shot with an old lee lead ,elted that the thermostst burned out in. drilled a hole in the bottom of it and tapped it for 1/4" npt screwed in a brass needle valve and and added a cap with an .040 hole drilled in it. took it up on the roof over the eve and when the lead melted I...
  10. Khufu

    Minié Balls in a Parker Hale 1858 Enfield

    not to mention the hand over the muzzle while pushing the minnie home with the ramrod. safety can be taken to extreams, in an attempt to enforce common sense. but perhaps the rammer is operated with two fingers as well, but then the minnie would not be seated too well.
  11. Khufu

    early bullet and shot molds

    my lee 00 buck mold casts 9 pellets, 3 connected x3. it has to be really hot to work, and reheated every few casts to get the lead to flow to all 3 pellets deep, I hope stone holds heat better than aluminum, or they would need to reheat them occationally and that would not be fun to remove and...
  12. Khufu

    early bullet and shot molds

    really good history lesson, I was under the impression that the gun maker supplied a mold with each gun as the bore was slightly different on each gun, ie ,525, .515, ,520 all being 52 cal. I had no idea they had 30 ball molds. good info!
  13. Khufu

    I am hooked on cap & ball

    actually, this proceedure does bring rhem in perfect alignment, I can usually see a barrel misalignment causing a windage error, and guns that shoot high are an obvious misalignment, you can see the crooked cylinder gap, more space on the top or bottom, when you over tighten the wedge the top or...
  14. Khufu

    Flintlock musket safety?

    the hand wringing nerbous nellies, see danger in everything except where it really is, loading ANY muzzleloader is, according to the safety police, dangerous because your hands are infront of a charged muzzle, and there could be a glowing ember, and etc. trying to knap a flint while mounted...
  15. Khufu

    I am hooked on cap & ball

    sure, correct windage first, bo carefully filing on the barrel at the bottom where it joins the frame on the side in the direction rhe ball strikes, if it shoots right, remove metalfrom the righr side but keep the surface flat. that aligns the barrel for windage, very little metal needs to be...
  16. Khufu

    Newbie accuracy question

    assuming you are at or near sea level and your 33" barrel will generate 1500 fps with 60 gr. of powder at 70 deg, zeroed at 50 yards, the balistics calculator estimates a drop of 7.8" at 100 yards
  17. Khufu

    I am hooked on cap & ball

    I sight my revolvers in the way an old, old gunsmith tought me when I was a youngster, now all mine shoot to point of aim using the original sights, colts are the most dificult, and take more work than remmies
  18. Khufu

    anyone ever have a percussion revolver squib fire ?

    I have never had anything worse than a spent cap falling into the lockworks and jamming things up some. but I visually verify the powder level in the cylinder before covering it with a ball. I did appempt to load once with a 45 cal .440 round ball, but that was very obvious the instant I did it...
  19. Khufu

    Capper for Pedersoli Remington 1858

    I have a Pietta remmy, my Ted Cash straight line capper works perfectly, it is an OLD Pietta, sold under Navy Arms. the newer Pieta cylinders fit it, so take from that what you will
  20. Khufu

    Flintlock musket safety?

    while I believe that tumblers were broken, either by dropping while half cocked, or a soldier, in the heat of a skirmish thought he had cocked his musket, and pulled the trigger so hard that the tumbler broke, or by a light pull had the **** falling from full **** get caught in the half ****...
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