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    I should never be allowed around tools

    The nice thing with wood is if you can match the stain, even a tiny chip ends up looking OK. But as long as you have the sliver - you should be able to glue it back in place. I'm hardly the guy to give advice on such matters though.
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    Round ball min expansion velocity

    Hi Don. The expansion thing is a little confounding to me. I've been casting my own for nearly 25 years. I had a .54 Lyman GPR and was shooting balls cast from old telephone sheathing. Had pass-throughs every time. About 2001 I got a new .54 flintlock and my telephone sheathing source dried...
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    TVM Southern vs. Tennessee

    "I have both and the difference is easy to see. "--Hanshi OK Thanks Hanshi. But forgive my lunkheadedness, but I don't see any major differences. Locks look the same, trigger guard looks the same. I see a difference in the amount of crescent in the butt, and I think the stock is shaped a...
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    Bedded the tang: fit problems

    OK. Gun is all put back together. Can't wait for some decent weather to test it out and see if this was the problem all along. Man I really hope it is. I've wasted a lot of powder, lead, and time trying to chase this gremlin down! Well maybe not time, even when the gun isn't shooting well...
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    TVM Southern vs. Tennessee

    So southern mountain rifles are a broader class that is distinguished from Pennsylvania rifles? The Tennessee rifle would be to the SMR as, say, a Lancaster is to a Pennsylvania rifle? Perhaps I should elaborate my question a little more. I am wondering what features about the Tennessee vs...
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    Bedded the tang: fit problems

    Good idea, I will remember this next time. I took a break for lunch and managed to remove enough epoxy to get the lock bolt through - although it doesn't meet up with the lock-hole as nicely as it had in the past. I will have to drill through the tang bolt hole to re-open it where the epoxy...
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    Kibler Southern Mountain rifle kit and supplies arrived. It's going to be a fun build.

    Does the Kibler Southern come with a swamped barrel or straight?
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    TVM Southern vs. Tennessee

    I see TVM offers a Southern and a Tennessee rifle. I don't see much difference between the two. Does anyone have any first-hand knowledge of what makes the Southern a Southern and a Tennessee a Tennessee? I wish TVM provided more photos like Track of the Wolf does.
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    Bedded the tang: fit problems

    Lock bolt is what wouldn't fit. I didn't try the tang bolt yet. I need to drill out the epoxy there. Like I said, I plugged the bolt hole, but there was about 1/8" gap between the tang and the wood, so that all got filled. I think the entire barrel shifted forward just a hair. When I...
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    Bedded the tang: fit problems

    I have a TVM Virginia rifle that has been serving me well for many years. Then a few years ago I went to do my usual sight check prior to deer season and the dang thing shot about 6 inches high at 50 yards. Well in the ensuing years I had heck to pay chasing accuracy woes. I just removed the...
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    Weird blown patches

    Today I shot some of the pillow ticking patches with a light charge and they came out looking fine. So damage may have been caused during firing. I also shot two other patch materials with a full charge. Some linen which is a tad thinner than the pillow ticking. That showed patch damage around...
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    Weird blown patches

    The material should be 100% cotton, unless the bolt label was false. The coarseness could be due to it being a Walmart fabric. The shinyness is likely the neatsfoot lube. It was well-lubed. The shooting/accuracy is peculiar. The groups are 4-5 inches at 50 yards, for a gun that normally...
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    Weird blown patches

    To test whether it is occuring during loading, or because pressure is trying to push the patch around the ball...I could load it with a squib load and check the patch?
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    Weird blown patches

    Easy starting. bore and crown are smooth. The material is old, but it has been sitting in the closet, clean and dry. It was not exposed to lube until minutes before shooting.
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    Weird blown patches

    I recovered a number of patches from the range today and they have a curious tendency to be split down the middle. I've seen them burnt, tattered, and otherwise chewed up where the patch is pinched between the ball and bore. But these ones are split down the middle as if it were the back of...
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    How to make the stock look old.

    I always thought it kind of weird; people prentending to time travel 200 years back, all their clothing is meticulous to the finest detail, but they have a gun that looks 200 years old. Only would make sense if they were carrying a gun styled in the 1500s -1600s.
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    How to make the stock look old.

    Did I spell it correctly? After typing it I thought there might be a U in there somewhere, too lazy to look it up.
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    How to make the stock look old.

    on a more serious note. I've know guys to run a blow torch over the wood to lightly char it. Brush it with steel wool to bring out some light spots in the black, then when you oil it, it will lock it in. Beware that if you have any chatoyance in the wood grain this will ruin it. A...
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    Ideas for left-handed ladies rifle

    I've outfitted a number of kids with muzzleloaders and it's been very difficult finding youth-sized traditional muzzleloaders. Wouldn't ya know it, I've got a kid that is left-eye dominant! She shoots one of my right-side-lock guns OK, but I thing a gun made for left-handed shooting would be...
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    How to make the stock look old.

    Send it to me. I'll hunt with it, shoot it, and clean it for 10 years then I'll send it back - it'll look old.
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