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    Flintlock rifle with "Spain" stamp on barrel

    my first flintlock was a CVA kentucky pistol kit that i purchased for $29.95 in December 1972 at the Discount store called Two Guys from Harrison at the White Hall Mall outside of Allentown PA. My dad had a friend that built muzzle loaders and hunted with them. He and my Dad made me take my...
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    Flintlock rifle with "Spain" stamp on barrel

    I believe Ardesa was the only Spanish maker that made a two piece stock in 50 caliber. They were made primaily for CVA and Traditions for export to the US and for some other wholesalers for the rest of the world. Ardesa guns are often sold under one name in the US and with other names...
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    Excessive Caliber Syndrome (ECS)

    I had acquired all the parts for a 69 caliber rifle and had started building when I lost it in a fire. Barrel itself weighed 8 pounds. I still have a 58 caliber rifle with a pair of 58 pistols to go along for companionship. But I was not cured of all ECS. I have two 10 ga pistols and...
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    100% vegan powder?

    "Weltneuheit" world innovation "Fur jede Boeller art geeignet" good for any salute discipline "wenigar Larm" less noise (defeats the purpose)
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    100% vegan powder?

    Came across this for sale while cruising some German muzzle loader sites. The stuff looks like powder coffee creamer. Maybe no urea is used to make the powder. It is for salute guns. (Boeller)
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    If you just ordered a pietta

    QC suffered because of the Pandemic? My Lion's club activities income went down because of the Pandemic, we simply skipped fund raisers for most of 2020. Then last year, we skipped some, but others did extremely well. So last night the Treasurer announces that because of the Pandemic we...
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    Ardessa Spain LePage knock off.

    Asdesa has made several models over the years that were not imported to the US. About 15 yrs ago, they made a single barrel muzzle loader pistol that had 3 - 75 caliber bores in it and an odd select fire percussion hammer. It would fire as fast as you could pull back the hammer to fire the...
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    Ideas wanted for woodswalk Archery competition.

    old scrap dry wall makes a nice puff of dust when hit. I have been to primitive archery matches where an apple was hung on a string at about 20 yds. Crease the apple 1 pt, cut a piece off, 2 pts, put the arrow through the apple 3pts. Also had a target sort of like the Tomahawk target in...
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    Ease of use by caliber

    EC121 hit it right on. No caliber itself determines fouling. It is a factor of load, patch-ball combination, humidity, barrel length etc. Even rifling can play a part. Larger calibers tend to burn the powder more completely within the bore. (Larger meaning 54 and up) Before the ball and...
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    Goex News......

    IIRC, the big naval guns still use black powder or blasting powder. The Government does not want to be caught without a domestic supplier. Back in the 1960's, apparently the only manufacturer of bearings large enough for hydro power turbines were the Czechoslavakians. A lot of people were...
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    Goex News......

    Wonder what strings come with that. Gov't able to cut off civilian supply any time it wants?
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    Can't Remove Breech Plug!

    Obviously written when barrels came without breech plugs installed. When i started, barrel were often not even threaded for breech plugs. I had to drill and tap my first builds
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    This is pretty scary!

    I was searching for an out of print book a few months back. I needed the information out of it more than the actual book. Found one on Amazon in Liverpool, England for an outrageous price. I ran a search for it the next day, just as I was about to bite the bullet and pay for the ridiculous...
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    Tennessee changes its definition of a muzzleloader

    The problem in PA, was that the ferguson rifle was legal for deer hunting until about 1982. So were cap and ball revolvers, percussion Sharps and even rim fire rifles over 25 caliber. Also match lock and wheel lock firearms were legal for deer. So the legiscritters who knew nothing of the...
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    Do i need a custom flintlock rifle??

    A custom flintlock with a well tuned lock and balanced stock and barrel is a joy far far beyond anything a mass produced factory gun can accomplish. Sure you can shoot a deer with either. But the trials and tribulations of misfires, etc will be much worse with a production gun. Even worse if...
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    some bone items

    A few weeks ago, Mrs asked me to trim a chuck roast. There was a fairly large flat bone in the roast which I cut out. I saw that it was flat and about half of it was solid, having no marrow whatever. So I cleaned the membrane off the bone, used a hack saw to cut the part with the marrow...
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    Are Shippers Targeting Guns?

    Almost as bad are the porch pirates that follow the delivery trucks. We have had packages inappropriately delivered. not guns, but just left out on the curb at the end of a 980ft driveway.. Had a leather office chair left on a snow bank even though the driveway was cleared 15 ft wide all...
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    Are Shippers Targeting Guns?

    I represented a gun shop in a suit against Fed ex for the same problem. A fancy collector double barrel shotgun shipped to the gun shop arrived with dually truck tire tracks over it and broken stock at the wrist. The driver that delivered even apologized, saying he took a picture of the box...
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    German Flintlock Pistol INFO help Please!!

    It was a common practice in some German areas, that each integral part be labeled with a number and/or letter. I had a Hanoverian cavalry pistol and an Austrian cavalry pistol. Both had a similar system of numbers and letters on each metal part.
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    How do you waterproof a wooden ramrod

    For decades, can't creosote for love or money here. 50 years ago, I had a summer job with the state fish commission and we went around painting all their signs and posts with creosote. Really smelly nasty stuff. Skin contact causes rash and chemical burns.
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