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You can see the rifling marks on the ball when they opened up the ballistic gel. I wonder what the muzzle velocity is.

Nitrating cigarette papers is a royal PITA. I have tried it and will do it again but the papers are fragile and tear easily. I used some with no ill effects and it was an improvement on coffee filters but here is what I have observed so far: 1. nitrated coffee filters with 17 gr of 3fff did...

Phil has it right. I have successfully used boiled linseed oil (BLO) on my Plains Pistol and it looks great. I did my GPR with Nut Brown stain from Laurel Mountain Forge and used several coats of Tung oil finish to bring out the grain. Take this post to the Gun Makers Bench forum and you will...

Welcome from Central Texas

o_OI am in city limits. The cops would be all over my a$$ in a New York minute.

Kap, I'll give the drying out before I dispose. thanks for the tip.

I was thinking fire crackers. I'll try one to see.

Might be wasting good powder :rolleyes:

When I first started black powder shooting I got some American Pioneer Powder (APP). At that time everything worked just fine but I got some real black powder soon after and left it on the shelf in my garage. Now ten years later I wanted to see if this stuff was any good so I made a little...

Thanks Bunk, I have just looked at The Duelist's video on that subject. Wish me luck, I may buy a sight and have a gunsmith do it. Would hate to ruin a good gun by fumble fingering myself. I live in Texas. It would be a fur trek to shoot in Kentucky 😁. Actually I can't rely on Kentucky...

I have a Pietta 1851 Colt Navy .36 cal. I have been tuning this for reliability and finally have many issues corrected. The final one is that I noticed that the front sight is canted about 5 degrees to the right. I always wondered why it shot to the left when rested. I think that I want to...

I like the way he standardizes his method. I don't use Duco but I use model airplane glue for wooden airplanes. It has acetone in it and easily dissolves in pure acetone. Yes, it is ground glass and that is added as a friction enhancer. I don't leave it out.

Welcome from Central Texas.

Welcome from the Austin area. We Texicans are loading up this forum!

Have you considered making a spacer using a similar wood as the stock?

True, I carry a pipe cleaner in my kit to occasionally clean the outside of nipples.

I have a Mountain Rifle in .50 cal that built from a kit. This is one of the Spanish ones and I wouldn't trade or sell it because it is such a good shooter. The older ones actually made by CVA are the ones you need to go for,

There are boatloads of posts on swabbing the bore between shots. Many target shooters do it. I recommend looking for posts for "moose milk" formulas for swabbing between shots. My understanding, not my experience, is that smaller bores like yours foul very quickly and may need to be swabbed...

Are you looking to swap to flint on this percussion pistol?

So far I have just left them and chalk it up to giving the pistol its character. Have you tried buffing them out with fine grit wet dry sandpaper? It will require bluing the cylinder again but polishing should do the trick.