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@Notchy Bob The butt of the knife is peened over and then lead (pewter?) was poured into the handle. The hide lacing is impressive to me. My big fisted hands could never cut hide that thin, not even close.

I have no idea when this was made but I was intrigued by the knife itself which is made from a file and is a lot thicker than contemporary knives made from files. It's a heavy knife.

That’s what it is. Only cost me $35 so if it doesn’t work no big deal.

I've never done anything like this before, and I can't imagine I'll need very much lead shot, but I decided to try the Rupert Shot system by purchasing this. Supposed to be here in a day or two. Crossing my fingers it will work.

I am posting this on behalf of @appalichian hunter. The shooting bag I had made inspired appalichian hunter to get out the leather and tools and build one that suited him and his needs and I think you'll agree he hit it out of the park. His whole kit is great. Here is his description and photos...

The Snake Country EXPEDITION of 1830-1831 John Work's Field Journal. Another excellent book. In fact now one of my top ten. John Work was a brigade leader for the Hudson's Bay Company. He wrote journals with daily entries as to his experiences. I've managed to locate copies of three of the...

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So....as you can see I've got the lock assy and trigger assy out of the gun. A number of worn out screws that I'll have to address but everything works. Took me a hour to figure out how the triggers work because it sure is different than modern guns like flintlocks work. ;-) After seeing the...

Hard to tell. With this gun being around 350 years old it has screws that are obvious replacements (2), screws that are obvious originals because the threads are almost completely eroded away, and then screws that might be replacements but if they are they were either duplicated and aged well...

@Flint62Smoothie interesting you'd say that cause in talking to my friend as to whether the ramrod was likely to be original or not, he said feel its weight. If it feels feather light its probably the original (based also on that the tip of the ramrod has the same ebony/bone end like the stock)...

@Cutfinger, thanks. That's a thumb trigger. Now that i have the gun I talked with a guy today who collects wheellocks and he helped me understand this gun. It has deep cut rifling, and that it means it was probably either a hunting rifle or a target rifle. He told me that if I opened the patch...

The wheellock was just dropped off. I'm in heaven! The swamped barrel looks remarkably good with no significant pitting, just lots of surface rust so definitely shootable. The lock mechanism winds up and catches, the triggers attempt to release the wheellock but don't, hopefully a good cleaning...

On Saturday September 25, 1830 a party of Blackfeet attacked a small group of trappers that were part of John Work's Snake Country Expedition. Almost all the trappers were killed including an Indian slave trapper belonging to Louis Kanota. The slave fought fiercely before being killed and...

@Flint62Smoothie "Brothers of the Wheel", I like that. :) Does this mean a Matchlock is in my future as well? :)

@david w Supposed to be .48 That's the video I watched (and thanks for that). And then this one. really cool.

@Flint62Smoothie thank you so much. PM sent. I've noticed the pyrite posts, thanks. Hopefully she'll shoot without anything more than a through cleaning.

I don't know why I did it but I bought a French Wheellock. Should have it in my hands in the next two weeks. Not like I need to go down an entirely different rabbit hole but.... So I know absolutely nothing about wheellocks other than a YouTube video I watched explaining how they work. So folks...

@Runewolf1973 once again you have hit it out of the park. Absolutely love it. Here is a pick of both together. Thanks again!

Seems like yes, the lock ignites the candle and then the candle moves to a vertical position. Very cool. https://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/flintlock-alarm-candle-clock/

“Sorry I’m late boss, I forgot to prime my alarm clock”