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Plumbers in Europe still use it with tallow for some jobs and plumbers supply shops readily stock it. I can’t advise for the USA.

This began life as a 19th century percussion service musket. Probably French or Belgian Army. Then sold to the Belgian trade who removed the percussion nipple arrangement and replaced it with an add on pan and steel in front of the percussion back lock and drilled a new touch hole. Finally a new...

Linseed oil is a self polymerising drying oil. That is why it is used for paint. In oxidising to do so it is exothermic. ie gives off heat. If the patching material soaked with linseed oil is stored folded or stacked up the heat cannot get out so it can self ignite after a time. This is why one...

I emigrated to France but am back in Blighty bringing up two of our grandchildren. In my local small town park each year is a re-enactment of the Civil War siege of the city by Royalist forces, as one of the gun sites for their artillery to fire at Plymouth. Recently I was back home in France...

The revolver example is a red herring. Albeit loaded into the muzzle of the cylinder, the ball acts the same as in a breechloader once it enters the forcing cone (note the name) and is squeezed into the rifling of the smaller barrel. Hence it acquires a cylindrical centre. On the OP, any hole...

They were assembled from military muskets and rifled muskets which were converted to breech loaders by the Snider/Schneider joint French patents as the M1863 Tabatiere rifle for the French National Guard and used in the 1870 War. Sold to the Belgians thereafter who converted them to shotguns for...

FWIW the famous Colonel Peter Hawker of early 19th century fame was in the habit of ordering his new flintlocks already soled with steel even from the best makers of the day.

This is a very old thread but, if others come across it, I would mention that the Pattern1810 Infantry Rifle was described as ‘musket bore’ not in terms of it having the bore of a musket but in being for use with musket size bullets. Being about 0,685” in diameter to go patched into the 0,70”...

I am not suggesting that it is one of these, but my old Yeomanry regiment was issued with 26” barrelled Bess carbines in the Napoleonic wars for the troopers. Cobbled together by the Tower from the used parts bins to stop the flow of whinging complaint letters from the county Lord Lieutenant...

I did get a 28 inch cut down Bess barrel and a suitable tree centre slab of cherry but currently I am a bit busy bringing up twin premature, now strapping great two year old, grand daughters in another country far from my workshop, so things are on a major pause. Next purchase must be a...

добре дошъл във форума bobi. Дядо ми щеше да ги види преди да емигрира от Ямбол във Франция преди 120 години.

Ryan O’Neal was far too ‘nice’ and colourless for the role of a rogue. Now Leonard Rossiter as Captain John Quin was outstanding. As usual.

Centuries.

Major Ferguson did go through the proper channels (with a bit of the normal patronage of the time) and the rifles were withdrawn to stores due to weakness in the stock and lack of spares. Not to mention their expensive price. The design concept had been around in limited production for a...

And having to charge Pedersoli prices to afford all these higher quality items. I do wonder about people who complain that a $600 musket is not as nicely finished as a $1,200 one. Left to themselves and not driven by a penny pinching business owner Jaipur workmen can do some very fine work...

The Honourable East India Company used coconut oil and bees wax as the patch lubricant in one of the Presidencies armies for their Brunswick Rifles. They had changed from the British army tallow and bees wax to linseed oil and bees wax but the patches were slightly prone to spontaneous...

They do spit a bit when fried. Mind you, so would I……but then I expect the horse tastes better.

Only posting to say that, with the same type of musket, I too found it the best way both for accuracy and maintains a clean bore. The current owner uses Udderly Smooth udder cream whilst I used the cheapest hand cream in the supermarket. I believe Bill Curtis used an, um, intimate water based...

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‘Six hundred feet of potage and half a mile of bread for the troops Colour Sergeant. It is a cold day‘. Mind you, I have had porridge that could be cut into strips so maybe the Highland regiments got six hundred feet of porridge. I now have a mental picture of wagons carrying huge rolls of...