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  1. jbwilliams3

    Shooting new fowler

    I haven’t experimented with shot with this 28 gauge, only ball, buckshot, and “buck and ball.”
  2. jbwilliams3

    Shooting new fowler

    Congrats! I picked up a trade gun from him a couple of years ago because I had been wanting a smoothbore flinter and a "beater" gun (no matter how you gussy it up, a Type G trade gun is a beater, IMO). Man, even with a 46" barrel it's an airweight. It's a 28 gauge and shoots a bare ball nearly...
  3. jbwilliams3

    Purveyor of Sheaths, Crudely Made

    Good on you for posting your work. You’re spot on in regards to reading about leather crafting techniques and actually doing them. After a while, the things which Artificer and Wick recommended will start to make sense and you would probably figure them out on your own. Attempting to recreate...
  4. jbwilliams3

    Patch Knife?

    I'm with Artificer, though if you are doing later 19th century or you just like the idea of cutting at the muzzle and using a specialized patch knife... I never liked cutting at the muzzle and, like Artificer, I attempt to replicate what was done in the 18th century. If cutting at the muzzle was...
  5. jbwilliams3

    Ordered a longrifle from Kibler

    Chambers has many earlier rifle styles covered with his kits, but not all. More importantly, though, is the level of skill it takes to complete a Chambers’ kit versus one of Kibler’s CNC-shaped kits. Most novices could easily turn a Chamber’s kit into a $500 gun with mistakes. From what I have...
  6. jbwilliams3

    Jim Kibler Rifles

    Also keep in mind that Jim Kibler is one of the best custom builders out there. That he is combining his engineering skills to produce rifle kits that can be put together by the novice is extraordinary. Very cool and I am looking forward to future styles that he will reproduce in the future. No...
  7. jbwilliams3

    Kit vs scratch

    He has stated on the American Longrifle Forum that he was considering an early gun for his next kit. The stocks are shaped with a programed CNC machine so they are as precise as possible meaning very precious little inletting and shaping is necessary. They are essentially in the white but are...
  8. jbwilliams3

    Pedersoli Blue Ridge .54

    I owned a .45 for a few years. It was a good shooter and I got it on a sale. The negatives ”“ the sights are horrendous and the ramrods are even worse though that’s easy enough to remedy. The stock architecture doesn’t represent anything specific in the historic record and it leaves a ton of...
  9. jbwilliams3

    cal. 45 - fffg or ffg ???

    If you have used and had success with 3f, there is little reason to change, in my opinion. The only reason I would use 2f with any of my current guns would be if someone gave me some for free. I remember the first pound of powder I ever bought was 3f for a .45 rifle. My late father had a lb...
  10. jbwilliams3

    Touchhole liners

    If someone told me liners were inherently dangerous, I would simply reply that the millions of "uneventful" shots fired from guns with properly installed liners says otherwise.
  11. jbwilliams3

    anyone use a plain dowel as a ramrod?

    I picked up a gun a few years ago with a 48" barrel with a hickory split, tapered rod with a bare wood end. You can use one of those wire two worms for cleaning, but for a really "modern" cleaning,I needed a different rod and wanted to clean right away rather than waiting for a rod in the mail...
  12. jbwilliams3

    Re-bore B weight swamped 50-cal to 54-cal?

    I asked Charles Burton a few years ago if he could tell me what a B-weight .54 would weigh just because I was curious and he just said he won’t do higher than a .50 in B-weight. I imagine most, if not all, makers would be in the same boat.
  13. jbwilliams3

    New rifle

    I don't have the rifle any more, but I've had luck with another gun scrubbing the bore well with green followed up with grey scotchbrite.
  14. jbwilliams3

    period correct caliber for deer

    I love .45s, .50s, and .54s. Toward the end of your timeframe a .45 (or .40, even) would be likelier seen on the east coast than a .54 for a hunting rifle. But that had to do mostly with big game scarcity. As others have pointed out, after the third quarter of the 18th century, rifle calibers...
  15. jbwilliams3

    New rifle

    Oh, and the ramrods are no good. I'd buy a few hickory blanks and use the rod ends from the factory rod on the new rods (or just keep as a backup and spend a few bucks on a new rod end). pick a new rod with as straight a grain as possible and sand or scrape down to size, do a finer sanding to...
  16. jbwilliams3

    New rifle

    Hunter, The Pedersoli Frontier (marketed by calelas as the Blue Ridge) has a pretty good lock for a factory rifle. It’s a big lock with strong springs, stronger than I care for so it makes for a bit of a flint crusher if you don’t have the flint lined up well enough or have a misshapen flint...
  17. jbwilliams3

    Shooting bag contents

    Gus, Roger that. I suppose it depends on what one considers extra. I carry minimal stuff in my shot pouches compared to some and even then I sometimes feel like it can be too much. For instance, when I carry a small tin of tallow (a reasonable “extra” I would think), I sometimes feel like it’s...
  18. jbwilliams3

    Shooting bag contents

    Gus, My opinion, which only really informs my own practice and not necessarily my advice to others, is based more on etymology and practicality. I wholeheartedly agree on the lack of extant originals that can be nailed down to the 18th century. I think that a “shot pouch” is to carry shot...
  19. jbwilliams3

    how much prime to use

    I would say it depends on the lock you use and perhaps the powder you're using. On a small lock or a lock with bad geometry, you probably need to just about fill the pan. On really good locks I can get away with a very small amount of prime. On my Chambers Virginia lock, for example - though it...
  20. jbwilliams3

    Shooting bag contents

    In the 18th century, one predominate term for the shooting bag was “shot pouch.” I believe the major purpose of these were to hold roundballs and/or shot. Most of the time when I am carrying a flinter my shot pouch includes that and just enough additional equipment to keep the gun shooting (a...
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