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Yep, a long Malcolm scope for Sharps was certainly better looking... :D :D For 130 bucks it isn't a bad bargain, and it looks good, just have a bit of work on it, and it'll be like a new one... ;)

At the end of the 19th century, with other arms manufacturers from Liège, Adolphe Laloux gave birth to the Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, and his son, Georges, succeeded him. Doctor of Law like his father, Georges Laloux will be the administrator of the Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de...

That's right, but without welding, and this is important, maybe the more important of it is welded or drilled... I'm not a metallurgist too, but I use it, and I did it without any problem, we can talk long, long time about this class of metal or another with probing results or not…

Under normal conditions I do like Maniac Shooter and always have a screw with me, this method is good and simple if you remember to seat the bullet on the bottom before shooting, but that's another topic. What I mean when I say that fitting the job like Idaho Ron grease is that you can get the...

12L14 steel is not "rolled/welded". In sheet metal, 12L14 is worthless, but in bars treated and drilled, it is good gun steel... It's not "somebody told me, or I have heard that": in fifty years, I have personally made four guns that went through the Saint-Etienne test bench, came back accepted...

This is not a good/bad approach, but this is an excellent approach: the grease isn't compressible, so the approach of Idaho Ron is one of the best (the best?) ways you can find and everything will come with the grease pressure...

That's a pretty funny and solid pistol, I found one old (Dikar 1976) in parts the two weeks ago, and I'm going to transform it into a flintlock I've all that I need in my gadgets shop... Have a lot of fun with this. 😉

Don't care about the 12L14, this is not a perfect steel for a lot of utilization, but for all the BP barrels it does largely the job: no blow-up during the official tests of Eibar, Gardone, or Saint-Etienne... What about the barrels and steel of the 18th or 19th century? Too-hard steel isn't the...

The top rifle is a Pedersoli "Frontier" (also called "Blue Ridge Flintlock") and the bottom it's an Ardesa (Jukar/Dikar/Ardesa/Traditions) "Pennsylvania". Only the four brands make the difference: the manufacturing is the same and the parts are the same and interchangeable ;) ...

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The 12L14 steel is a so-called "free-cutting steel". Equivalent grades: CNS SUM24L, JISSUM24L, ASTM 12L14, DIN 9SMnPb36. Free-cutting steels are mainly used to manufacture parts that have requirements of high precision in size and high surface finish, but low mechanical properties, such as...

Rifle or pistol the work is the same with the same tools and stuff... You can do it easily apart, perhaps, the wood...

I always have removed the drum and especially on the rifles Jukar/Dikar/Ardesa/Traditions brand, because mostly the drum makes like a patented chamber when traversing the barrel from right to left: there is a hole in the middle... So put it off and replace it with a M10x125 bolt, pierce and...

I have worn out two freezen: an Ardesa/Traditions and a Pedersoli. The reason was very simple: the steel was not hard enough and too low in carbon... As a watchmaker, I had thin steel sheets with a lot of carbon, so I made the steel faces hardened and tempered light blue and I never had a...

If the twist rate is really 1:38 and shallow scratches the PRB could be lower accuracy than the sabots: the twist is relatively short and the efficiency of the PRB is minor than the sabots, the risk of skipping the scratch becomes more important when the twist is shorter, which often forces...

For me, it's mixed: I dismantle the pinned barrels only twice a year and the hooked-breech barrels around one time by two months or a bit more... All the wood and the underside of the barrel are greased with "marine" quality grease insoluble in water... I've always heard from the old timers that...

Absolutely right. ;) When loading with a measure, it is a volume of powder equal to a certain powder weight... When loading with a plastic or glass tube it is also a volume/weight or weight/volume corresponding to the weight of the powder. When loading with dosing as machine Lyman, Lee, RCBS it...

That's an idea... ;)

That is just: my Lyman BP handbook (1975) gives the pressures on copper crushers and the speeds with a stopwatch with field break (wire break)

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