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    Ardesa Mountain Rifle

    That's a fine looking rifle. The sights don't match the rest of it, in period or overall appearance. A heavy barrelled .36 makes it even more attractive. I'd change them, but stop there & just shoot it. Have fun.
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    What was your first Muzzleloader?

    I'd almost forgotten, but (as a teenager) it was a bronze "Chinese Hand Cannon", from Dixie Gun Works. About 12 ga smooth bore. It had a sort of tapered tail and a coned touch hole on top. Nobody bothered to tell me (& I was too green to ask or research) that they had been strapped to a stick...
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    Help identifying pistol

    If you really think it's ivory, I wouldn't use the hot pin test, unless you could hide it well under the barrel or in the lock, recess, because it could hurt the value. You should be able to see the growth rings They look a bit like the rays in tiger maple, but even arcs instead of random...
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    Why I can’t see my sights.

    Good Luck on the surgery! May you heal quickly with your sight restored. If it doesn't completely cure the problem, look into Lyman's "EyePal". I'm a bit older, near sighted, and stalling cataract surgery: this small soft plastic diopter pinhole mask sticks to the inside surface of my lens and...
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    Cleaning a flintlock

    Old Hunter, it will depend on how the barrel is held in the stock. The barrel is usually held in the stock by the tang and either pins or keys, which cross the stock, under the barrel, through tabs on the underside of the barrel. Usually, it will also be held by the bolt holding the lock in...
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    New from southern Michigan

    Welcome.
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    Cleaning a flintlock

    Let them do it. (Medical use of leeches is coming back, in a limited way.)
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    Loose/poorly fitted breech plug

    If you try the washer, look up a chart showing the galvanic potential between different metals. The washer would need to be very close to the barrel composition on the chart to minimize the risk of hidden corrosion at the breech and at the plug's mechanical seal. (You may be able to learn the...
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    Paper cartridge and lubed wads

    re: shelf life of paper cartridges, digging through storage, I found a half dozen I made for a Colt 1860 Army, back about 1964. They've stayed dry and firm in a tight box. I'd have no qualms about firing them now - once I locate the .44.
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    Latest Acquisition

    None of the punches or sets I could find were small enough. I had accumulated a lot of odd sized Allen wrenches from yard sales but still had to dig for one small enough. Had a gunsmith (not familiar w/ BP guns spread the pin hole on a pistol, using a 1/8" punch. Fortunately, I could swell it...
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    inlay practice

    That's amazing wire work; elaborate but it doesn't (to my eye) overwhelm the beauty or lines of the stock. I prefer that look to carving or larger inlays.
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    Restore or just leave it be? That is the question.

    That's a beauty. A product called Chairlock works well to swell and tighten dried/shrunken furniture joints. It might help tighten the wheel looseness; it may even swell the shrunken hub as well. Soaking in BLO might also help swell it. Failing that a brass shim might work to fill the gap. I'd...
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    Latest Acquisition

    I've used small Allen wrenches as pin drifts for the tiny barrel locking pins. Some day I'll get around to cutting it and setting it in a proper handle but it works well, without opening up the hole in the stock.
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    powder in the pan ignites powder in chamber

    "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C Clarke I think I detect a tendency in some comments to assume there is a limit to the heat involved in radiant heat transmission.
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    powder in the pan ignites powder in chamber

    I frequently get a few grains in the pan from the main charge. If the powder has a lot of fines, it self-primes. I wasnt in on the 1 in 10 test, but would guess a few drifted over to the pan.
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    Just Joined, looking to sell a TVM and get a Bess

    Welcome from Ohio.
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    Shooting my first flintlock/ lessons learned

    With a new barrel/bore, could a burr on the rifling cause enough localized fouling to cause this problem? Maybe polishing the bore would help.
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    .22 caliber Percussion Muzzle Loader question

    Beautiful, rifled and ambidextrous! What's the overall length? Now if it was only flint, it'd be perfect- once you found or knapped small enough flints.
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    Shooting my first flintlock/ lessons learned

    I've gotten distracted when loading & have that same moment, w/ ball & path in hand, wondering if I'd really charged. I hate to waste powder, so I wet the tip of my ramrod; run it down &, if powder comes out on it; breathe easy & finish loading.
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    Disney: Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier.

    Seemed to me that they shot that matchwith tuned flintlocks -without the typical click...boom delay.
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