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Big time congrats! Way to go!

Soak it good with Neatsfoot, Pecard's, or Sno Seal. It will work fine. Good luck hunting!

Do what you want. Keep it tasteful, and don't nickel plate anything. :D

Learn something new every day...

I don't care for the whole MM thing. I have owned them, strictly to expand my hunting season. I view them as a caseless ammunition rifle. Traditional MLs don't make the DNR more license sales, there aren't more local gun sales, and the traditional practitioner numbers are shrinking. I don't...

Even if it's loaded with apples... ;-/

From my perspective, the math and engineering has already been accomplished. For many years, by shooters much more knowledgeable than me. I see myself as an operator, not an experimenter. Cheap ammunition would be hand cast, by me, but it still has to possess quality to be successful. A shorter...

The Britains were hard on the "Highlands" and the Irish had precious few firearms. The reference to a Dutch musket here is pretty accurate. What was the Disarming Act 1695? An Act for the better securing the government, by disarming papists 1695 directed Irish Catholics to deliver up “all...

The only way to "toast" golfballs...

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The "Outback" series by Aaron Fletcher is very enjoyable.

Log into this site, you can borrow and read it for free. That's where I am. Internet Archive

The best drawings I have seen have came from Antique Ordnance Publishing. You can do accurate mathematical scaling from their work. Antique Ordnance Publishers | Fort Gratiot MI

Doesn't look like a rookie job to me. Nice work!

Nice hunt! Congrats!

Looks like a handsome rifle!

I'm soon going to be 69, and nobody in my family or friends care for firearms, blackpowder or not. I'm going to a gun show November 11th, and put 5 modern single actions on a buddy's table, along with an apparently unsellable coehorn mortar. If I get my price, fine, I'll have some folding money...

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Welcome from Wisconsin!

It is, my friend, it is...