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  1. Steve Martin

    My Custom Fussil de Chase

    Very nice!
  2. Steve Martin

    Flintlock Trigger Pull Help

    Personally, I have never noticed any real difference using null B or 4f either for that matter in the pans of any of my flintlocks. I prime with 3f and shoot with 3f. The only thing I use 2f for is my Brown Bess. Lord knows, it's hard enough to just get my hands on enough of that these days!
  3. Steve Martin

    Dutch Schoultz : A Mighty Tree Has Fallen In the Forest

    People like Dutch are irreplaceable not just in our hobby but in this world. R.I.P.
  4. Steve Martin

    Hit a snag

    Cut a slot into the end of the trigger plate to allow the tab of the trigger guard to pass thru and on down into the stock?
  5. Steve Martin

    Please remove.

    No way! Certainly not $3,600.
  6. Steve Martin

    Weapon Shield

    I use LSA as well, it's great stuff especially on locks BUT, swab your barrel with a patch soaked in windex or alcohol before you go to shoot or you will have a real problem with misfires (ask me how I know)! As has been said here many times there are some fine petroleum based preservatives out...
  7. Steve Martin

    rebore

    Ed probably does have a longer backlog than Hoyt for the same reason he does great work at a very fair price! I have one of Ed's barrels in a .45 caliber flintlock rifle of mine - it's a tack driver! I for one have NO problem waiting for the best barrel men in America to do work on my rifles...
  8. Steve Martin

    Where do you draw the line?

    No to all questions in the OP with the exception of using a steel ram rod when shooting at my local range.
  9. Steve Martin

    Online Business Scams

    Crew Chief just hit on another thing to look for with potential scam sites - scam sites often create a name or logo which they deliberately try to make sound or look like some well know legit business.
  10. Steve Martin

    Old Girl revisited

    Wow! What a fantastic work of art!
  11. Steve Martin

    SOLD Sitting Fox LH Trade Gun

    I actually own a twin to this Sitting Fox NW Trade gun only mine is 20ga. and .62 caliber. Like this one, mine is also a lefty and while I am a right hander and all my other long guns are right handed I shoot my Lefty Trade gun all the time with no problems at all. The butt stock is so flat...
  12. Steve Martin

    Intervention please!

    Phil Coffins said it - I have had some experience with some beautiful flintlocks with poor locks that would have completely put me off owning or shooting flintlocks had I not already been doing it long enough to realize that the lock was indeed the problem.
  13. Steve Martin

    Muzzleloading Rifle for a Lady

    I am right handed, shoot right hand but one of my favorite flintlocks is a NW Trade gun that's a left hand lock. I've never had any trouble shooting it. A rifle might be different of course due to having a "cheek" where as my smoothbore Trade gun is just has a slab sided butt stock.
  14. Steve Martin

    Powder horn project

    I just want to jump in here and remind everyone when cutting and filing, sanding etc. on horn, wear a good mask! I did not know how bad the stuff coming off a natural horn was for my lungs the first one I made and suffered a week as a result. Wear a good mask whenever you are putting out horn...
  15. Steve Martin

    Many misfires first time shooting

    When you hear that the flint needs to be sharp, that means a flint edge that you would not want to hit your finger! A properly sharp flint needs to be "scary" sharp. That's why a flint only last a limited amount of strikes before it needs to be knapped or replaced. The flint in your photo...
  16. Steve Martin

    Powder horn project

    Wood makes a better seal. You don't want any moisture getting into the horn.
  17. Steve Martin

    Shooting way low!

    Barrel bending is most often used (and is most effective) primarily on smoothbores. I would say it's pretty rare these days with octagon rifled barrels so don't run right out and try bending anything yet! As others have already said the charge you said you are using is way low for the typical...
  18. Steve Martin

    I finished my first build...Kibler Colonial

    Great job! Beautiful rifle man, you can be very proud of that level of work!
  19. Steve Martin

    Changing the Angle

    I thought I needed a bit more "crook" in the hammer of my Pedesoli Plainsman but when I replaced the nipple with a shorter one the problem was solved because of the slightly longer "arc" the hammer had to travel. So the OP might consider a shorter nipple if it looks like that might help.
  20. Steve Martin

    This is a GREAT way to do it!!!

    My uncle started me shooting at 10 and my Dad got me my first rifle at 11. I have been at it non-stop since and I'm 67. By all means the future of our great hobby is the young. Great work you all are doing!
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