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  1. zimmerstutzen

    More five-board benches

    I can't find a picture right now, about 30 yrs ago, I made a few such benches about 30 inches long and 12 inches wide, but I used 6 inch lumber for the length pieces along the front and back, included a board beneath those for a bottom and made the top with a hinges on back and a barrel bolt on...
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    Carrying Flintlock Pistols

    Yeah easy to do when You race to the hospital and spend most waking hours at the hospital with an aging loved one, then the hassles of nursing homes, hospice funeral etc. The prime was dumped so I could drive home when I drove home then and the gun put in the safe when I changed to go to to...
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    India-Made, With A Flair

    Never did give the name and date stamped on underside of the barrel.. avoided giving the information despite several repeated requests. Credibility is seriously doubtful.
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    Coning

    Round bottom rifling. with what radius and depth? do you even know why some round bottom radius is less than bore diameter and some round bottom radius is larger than bore diameter? Which shoots with greater precision and why? and your statement "accuracy will not suffer" Based on what...
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    Coning

    He said I do not know anything about him, neglecting what can be reasonable inferred from what he said that was contrary to fact. . The rational well thought out response speaks volumes LOL
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    Coning

    For the exact reasons stated. Some yahoo says my coned barrel shoots the same dismal group as I got offhand, so for the entire rest of the world, it must be a scientific truth that coning does not effect accuracy, no matter what type of barrel, projectile or shooting discipline. So if ten...
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    Coning

    it would be eminently stupid to take a premium target barrel and cone the muzzle. Why not do a legit survey of the number of chunk gun shooters who coned their barrel, the number of light bench shooters with coned barrels, how many match paper shooters compete with coned muzzles. I have...
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    Coning

    About 1980, I actually went to the patent office and went through old firearm patents that were on file for the period of 1800 to 1824 There was patent drawing for a false muzzle dated 1811. Now it is possible that a patent was not granted based on that submission and Clark got one later for a...
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    Coning

    And Clark's was neither the first nor the last. As is the nature of patents, there can be numerous filings with various steps of improvements. Just like the telephone was developed several places around the world nearly simultaneously, and there were patents before Bell's, but Bell gets the...
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    Coning

    Not exactly the patent for the pinned false muzzle in the US was granted in 1811. The purpose of a pinned false muzzle is to 1) allow loading and then 2) (the ultimate purpose) firing the projectile from a square muzzle with no distorted crown. A way to be able to eliminate the typical crown...
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    Coning

    And by most reports, accuracy was bad
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    Coning

    when I attended the Berks county Long rifle exhibit of Berks county rifles from Kindig's collection, of the 40 or 50 rifles, few had anything that could be referred to as coned, and more likely from muzzle wear. The Peter Angstadt rifle had a very square muzzle with no visible crown The...
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    Coning

    I take notice you are thoroughly unable to answer the simple question about the configuration of your rifling. What are we to infer from that? You failed to include any studies or even published articles on efforts made to study the effect of coning on different types of rifling. Safe to...
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    Coning

    A single target and gun is the very definition of anecdotal. You make no mention of he type of rifling and two shots is not a group. You have good accuracy if you are only after minute of deer. Unless you can show us at least 100 shots before coning and 100 after, there is no scientific...
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    Coning

    Then obviously your crown was off to begin with. Comparing a cone to a permanent false muzzle proves you have no concept of why a false muzzle is used. And certainly not to make for an easy load. BTW most people I know, including me, can shoot better groups with a smooth barrel off a...
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    Coning

    first of all, it is ignorant to compare high power super sonic hard alloy bullets to the softer lead used with muzzle loaders. The pinned false muzzle was patented in the US in 1811, but other false muzzle loading systems existed for earlier target rifles. So, such muzzles are in deed...
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    Coning

    If all you want is minute of deer, then coning won't hurt. If you actually want the absolute best accuracy (which most production barrels can't do anyway) then coning will probably affect accuracy. But to tell the difference, you would need a good above average target barrel, fine target...
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    Buttstock on pistol...

    Maybe under YOUR state law, not under federal law or the law of Pennsylvania. I have had short barreled rifles and shotguns with long gun butt stocks. as long as it is a muzzle loader, it is ok under federal law and PA state law.I have a Springfield carbine with is a 58 caliber pistol with a...
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    Unusual (to me) Bill Large barreled rifle

    When I started in muzzle loading in the mid 1970's many match shooters had heavy barreled target guns. just light enough to shoot offhand and just heavy enough to shoot light bench. Those guys shot line matches every weekend and often had upper body strength built up from practice to shoulder...
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    tc flint and percussion lock interchange

    TC NEVER used a drum on their sidelocks. Always a bolster on the percussion. There was a company that made a drop in mule ear lock that fit the TC flint mortise. the exchange only required switching a nipple into the touch hole in place of the liner. Don't know if the L&R mule ear will do that.
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