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Read the very first post in this thread - tells how to contact Joe Wood who makes a great caliber specific coning tool.

I don't like the change. Sounds like you could have a bolt action chambered for a "blank" cartridge that was a bit under bore size, with powder & primer cap in a pre loaded brass case. Meets the letter of the (new) law but nothing else. Seems most of the manufacturers have no interest in making...

I have several - for both muzzle loaders and modern guns. Great well padded cases.

For no particularly good reason other than I don't have one, I would like to get a repro Whitney in .36. The last two that I have seen were a Palmetto which sold for $930 and a Dixie which just sold for $1035. The Dixie I believe to be made by Palmetto and the finish was on the rough side ("new"...

Just got a range bag (for unmentionables) with prompt service & no issues.

There may be cultural or governmental structural factors at work to help explain the slow but steady evolution in the case of 18th - early 19th c British arms. I am most familiar with naval cutlasses. The British naval cutlass patterns show a slow but steady evolution of (sometimes minor)...

For some insights into the cultural, social, economic and state policies that affected gunmaking in Great Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries, Priya Satia's "Empire of Guns" traces several generations of the Galton family, prominent quaker gunmakers in Birmingham, England. Not the...

Sometimes overlooked is the fact that a number of the more ornate rifles were produced during economic depressions ie the 1780s and the Panic of 1797. In order to look busy (and therefore presumably skilled & in demand) gunsmiths sometimes added decoration (carving and/or engraving) at no extra...

Caliber?

Typically, a shot tower has a furnace at the top to melt the lead and in the better ones, a trolly/dumbwaiter type hoist system to haul lead & fuel to the top. The Baltimore tower was built without scaffolding, working from the inside out. The Jackson Ferry shot tower in Wythe Co., VA was built...

The shot tower in Baltimore at 234 feet, was the tallest building in the United States when completed in 1828.

I got several canvas cases from Dixie a few years ago.

Things that seem simple & obvious today had to be created out of thin air by someone without the millions of TV, movie, internet, and photographic images that we have been exposed to. People rode horses for hundreds of years before someone invented the stirrup. Think how long it took for the...

Try: Round Shot & Rammers by Harold Peterson Guns at Sea by Peter Padfield The Naval Gun by Hogg & Batchelor Firearms & Fortifications by Pepper & Adams Arming the Fleet by Tucker They should give you a few nights reading.

The hops are out of the ground & looking to climb. A couple of the stronger bines are already over two feet up the bailing twine that we string to a 20 foot pole for them. Hops are about the only thing that We can grow that does not become deer food.

Most of the shows are what an antique gun dealer friend calls "ammo camo" shows. I have bought far more books (and for that matter, coot decoys) at shows than guns.

A nice looking lightly used Palmetto Whitney on GunBroker just went for $930! 2nd Gen Colts go for less but there are lots more of them.

If many of the same item are available, the lower priced ones sell first & some of the sellers may be eager enough to sell that they will agree to a discounted price. When only one or two of the same items are on the market and future production/import is in doubt, the seller can ask whatever...

I recall reading that in New France, that men would show up at militia muster with their guns broken or in need of service so that the repairs would be made at the expense of the Crown.

Very nice. Good for you!