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    has anyone heard of this percussion cap company?

    Sorry about photobucket ruining the shot, but this shows the box from Fiocchi. notice the similarity?
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    has anyone heard of this percussion cap company?

    Probably Fiocchi caps. are they brass?. Most Italian caps were made by Fiocchi. At one time they made the caps sold by CVA. The brass is not as soft as the copper used by others and often, especially with misshapen nipples, it takes two strikes for them to ignite. They can be hard to pry...
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    .50 cal Kibler Colonial smoothbore

    Already stood the test of time? cite the authority upon which you base your claim. Otherwise at least I cited Hogdon's answer on the matter. You have cited absolutely nothing. . You keep referencing things without citing authority. What antique cartridges, reloads or factory sealed. And...
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    .50 cal Kibler Colonial smoothbore

    Which barrel steel does not work harden. Please give us the alloy that was used in that Kibler? So we can verify in metallurgical texts. I have seen too many accidents, sued manufacturers, handled too many failed firearms. Decades ago, helped police departments with a few firearms...
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    .50 cal Kibler Colonial smoothbore

    Same old dangerous BS by keyboard toughies, who often don't know jack squat about the guns (or barrel/ breech strength that the load will be used in. What do you know of the metallurgy and what it might take to work harden the alloy. Years ago a barrel maker made specific target barrels...
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    .50 cal Kibler Colonial smoothbore

    Your face and plastic surgery bill.
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    100 yard accuracy difference between smoothbore and rifle?

    When I was going to target matches regularly, there were a few guys who regularly beat most of the riflemen with their smooth bores. even out at 100yds. Those guys generally shot one gun, and practiced frequently. But as I said "a few" Now, part of their accuracy at 100 yds, was their...
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    Heat from candle

    In 1956, at age 5 we moved to an old farmstead on top a mountain in Eastern PA. The electric was out for 8 days after one hellacious snow storm. We cooked in the fireplace, moved beds to the living room. My parents kept a kerosene heater burning in the upstairs bathroom to keep the pipes from...
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    SOLD Reduced: An Interesting Flintlock .50 Hawken:$500 shipped

    I had a 1:72 twist, but with a special rifling. The grooves were very wide but shallow round bottom and thin lands in between. The grooves looked more like an oval laid on it's side for the cutter. lands were only 1/5 the width of the grooves. I never tried a bullet in it. But had several...
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    SOLD Reduced: An Interesting Flintlock .50 Hawken:$500 shipped

    Franken gun, light bench based on a TC hawken. Top of the frizzen was squared off, or a new frizzen installed at some point. It was not unusual back in the 1970's and 1980's to use most of a hawken to make a light bench gun. I made one from a Cabela's hawken, with TC trigger guard and...
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    Muddy Run

    I live about 15 miles NW as the crow flies. Too much going on this year. I'll come down to visit the sutler row and pick up a few things. I go to Rondes to shoot so Ft Frederick is a let down. I sure miss the Dan'l Morgan shoot. I loved that match.
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    Underhammer Target Rifle: Ken Bresien action with Ron Long .502 Barrel with false muzzle. I would like some advice regarding loading and equipment.

    I didn't see anywhere where you indicated the twist. The round ball information given is great, if indeed it was intended for round balls and not conicals. Heavy bench folks shoot two piece cross patch bullets. the bullets made in two parts from different harness of lead and then swaged...
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    What would the most common original muzzleloading rifle be

    At one time, I was able to buy original long guns in various states of disrepair for under $100. In fact I had five or six originals. One shooteable, as purchased, that I paid $150.00 for at a flea market. The bore was hand cut, it had been converted to percussion and had a plain Roman Nose...
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    Gettysburg Muzzleloading shops

    There are a few places on the outer edge of the area. Down in Winchester VA, Back Creek, I am told, has a nice shop (stock up[ on powder there.)., going the other way from Gettysburg, Dixon's muzzle loaders near Krumsville PA, about 50 minutes east of Harrisburg.
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    SOLD Northstar West 12ga Trades or offers?

    North Star West did not exist in the 1970's. It would have been the original North Star built in Pennsylvania by Curley Gostomski, IIRC, they were located in Pillow PA. North Star was sold when Curley died or got too old to continue, and the guns continued to be made by the new concern which...
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    Are Gemmer Hawkins not Rendezvous approved

    My second Eastern Primitive Rendezvous was the first one at GlenGarry W VA. I had a dog soldier give me crap about my Brogans, wanted to inspect to make sure they did not have plastic soles and heels, (they didn't) but at the time, there was a camp 30 ft away with an old hand crank wringer wash...
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    Are Gemmer Hawkins not Rendezvous approved

    Many rendevouz allow folks with TC side locks. They aren't HC.
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    Call to action: Flintlock-only Deer Season KY - Commission meeting today

    wish ya'll luck. Here in PA we have had a flintlock only season since the 1970's. A warning though, every whiner in the world will come out complaining that he can't use his percussion gun, in-line, box lock, needle gun or other later tech. And the whining will be annual, and repeated...
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    50 PRB speed over a chrono

    That is only half the story. a ball traveling over the speed of sound decelerates faster than a sub sonic ball. What matters is the speed down range at the target. Figures found by Lyman in their first edition Black powder Handbook show that sometimes there is an insignificant difference...
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    SOLD .45 Black Powder Pistol

    CVA Colonial pistol, made after 1981 by Ardesa Most were 50 caliber, only the first year or two did Ardesa make 45 calibers in that model
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