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I clean my German, Swiss and Austrian guns with Ballistol, My French guns with Armistol, My US guns with Birchwood Casey and my British Guns with Young's 303! ... so they smell "Right"

30+ years in the ammunition business! ..not everything is available on the internet! Happy to address any specific issues you want to put, but there is no "definative" work that I am aware of on line. Most of the reference works are classified government research documents and are not on open...

Although the firarms blog is correct in that Black Powder is less affected by pressure than smokeless this is a huge oversimplification.. The statement that Black Powder burns whilst nitro detonates is 100% wrong when applied to propellent. Def;lagration and detonation are two entirely different...

Nearly right..! What you say about BP igniters for Artillery is correct, although the latest designs are moving away from BP as an igniter. The problem with Artillery Propellent is that there are lots of voids in the cartridge space, particularly in designs where there are variable charges, and...

Most artillery bag charges still have black powder igniters to pick up the flash from the breech tube and ignite the charge in a reliable manner. If you see photos of 155 howitzer charges you will see they have a red disc on the end facing the breech. This is a bag quilted with black powder...

I think you could very well be correct.. Bulgaria and Turkey are next door to each other on the Black Sea and were both part of the Ottoman empire at the time. My gun certainly has "rozetki" inlays.. What I am curious about is how the butt stock was attached, as there is no signs of any screw...

...of course!

Hi Folks.. On the Bench today... A Turkish Shushana musket! This was given to me in a terrible state. It looked like it had been hanging over a coal fireplace for several generations, and was covered with a crusty black coating. The stock was in several pieces and is missing some barrel...

Whilst we are on the subject of carving stocks, can I reccomend these Japanese rasps.. They are excellent for removing wood from stocks as they do not clog. They have a rough and a fine side and seem to last a long time. They are like a bundle of hacksaw blades welded together on their sides...

Japanese chisels are also worth considering.. they are made from laminated steel with a glass hard back and soft face.. they are designed to be used with hardwood and may not meet everyone's taste, but worth getting one to try... Ice Bear are a good brand. I have a chisel I made out of an...

Gruss Gott from Scotland Hermann Nice Pistols... Rogers & Spencer?

To be honest, I would be tempted to epoxy it back on, particularly if you are not confident or equipped to hard solder it. You will also have to re-finish the barrel after heating to hard solder temperatures if you take that route..! Degrease the tenon and the barrel. tape up the inside of the...

Just be careful to check your bore after using these.. many toy caps have potassium chlorate in them which will rot your bore. You need to use a water based solvent to shift it..

of course... and it is easier to weld back metal than wood if you get it wrong.. I should have split the paragraph however.. I was suggesting that using an end mill is a tidier solution to deepening mortices than using a conventional drill or chisels which usually ends up leaving the eponamous...

This came up a few years back and I observed that one of the causes of this was the habit of leaving ML loaded which seems pretty ingrained in some parts..! My view is that I would never leave a gun loaded and unsupervised, particularly a muzzle loader which is hard to check. We are surely not...

An interesting thread! Strangely enough, a major problem with BP in the past was trying to slow it down for use in cannon (ML!). If you look at old photos of cannon from the 1860s you will see they had short barrels and very thick breeches. This was because the powder charge burned very quickly...

I would not really consider a morticer for cutting a barrel channel for a number of reasons: 1. As you say no traversing capablity. 2. Not a fast enough spindle speed. A morticer is really just a modified auger drill and cannot do the revs you need to cut a clean channel in wood. Even a regular...

Not suggesting for a moment that you should refer to a Whitworth as a musket, but to say that the term musket should only be used to describe a smoothbore I do contest...! Ah.. Sackville Street! I did my first degree at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology which...

I think you are perhaps being a bit over prescriptive here Tag! The term "Rifle Musket" was in official use in UK and I don't think it was ever that specific... I believe Parker Hale had access to a set of original Woolwich guages for their initial production of P53 and other reproductions. I...

Cyfarchion i chi! I use a .73 ball either with a cloth patch or with a couple of turns of paper in my Besses, one of which is a Petersoli... Get in touch with James Tanner at Ballmoulds and they will supply both moulds and patches of whatever size you desire. They are based in Essex so you...