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Well, put this down as a "Don't do that again" experence. I made my first batch of bullet lube for a pan lubed grease grooved 536 grain freight train of a bullet from a great U-Tube video. 1 pound each of beeswax, parafin, petrolium jelly and a tablespoon of STP with two crayons. I believe...

Felix D: Depending on where in Boston.... Kittery Trading Post in Maine is about an hour to an hour and 30 minutes north of Boston. Pretty good selection of powder and accessories, used muzzleloader selection can be a bit thin, but they do have them - pistols and rifles. Just accross the...

Marmotslayer: Went to that site. Good choice for the money if I have to go custom. Nice program, but yea, no Postell. Still, looks good for the money. Mike

Hey all: Posted this on another forum, but didn't get any real good feedback. I am building a muzzleloading .45 English Target Rifle that has a .451 Green Mountain 1 in 18 twist barrel with shallow rifling. I know its .451 because I pin gauged it and the barrel takes the .451 on a slip fit...

Paul: I will drop L&R a note. I work in metal all the time, never occured to me that soft was a big deal, but you make some good points. Mike

Paul: Tumbler and sear seemed to file out awful easily, and the sear is marking up the tumbler - at a guess I would say that the one I have is dead soft, as these things go. I would have thought they were hardened, but the tuning went way to easy for that (well it went easy when I figured out...

Hey All: I have an L&R English Bar Lock I am putting on my latest creation. I just finished tuning up the sear / tumbler / fly assembly to where I want it to be. Should I case harden the sear tip? Tumbler? Mike F

Most used tools - 1/4 inch heavy chisel, dimond sharpening "stone" and a chisel strop (wood with a leather surface) with a sharpening compound stick. Keep that chisel sharp enough to easily shave with. - a jar (small) of inletting black and a good stencil brush to "dab" the inletting black...

Longshadow: Petonica River has an English Rifle kit (Rigby muzzleloader) for long range (1000 yard) shooting. The kit is a good price but when you go looking for sights be prepared for sticker shock. The molds and sizing dies for the "bolt" will set you back too. I am about a 1/3 of the way...

Roundball: Have build a Hawken and now am part way though a Rigby, both use a patent breech. Not the Nock design, both are direct drilled from the base of the powder chamber to the nipple channel, so no right angle turns in the powder well itself. I pull the plug when I do the barrel to...

As usual, everyone is right. :blah: Zonie is correct, there are a load of reasons NOT to pull the breech plug, many more than there are to pull the plug. So, unless all else fails, don't pull it. EXCEPT (here we go :shocked2: ) when you are building a rifle. When I get get a kit I...

And you are very welcome! :v It was fun watching a build where I didn't have to do anything but comment (critics make no mistakes - :rotf: ). Great job on the buck and the tutorial. Mike F

I am trying (just ordered) a Pectonica Rigby Target Rifle. Going to try checkering the stock too (after a lot of practice). Mike

Dane: Ditto But the hooked breech can be done with a few tricks. The whole project is easier if the barrel is straight. A tapered barrel adds to the hooked breech issue. Anyway, MikeBurnsie, when you get started, just ask. Lots of people here have done hooked breeches. Mike

Always! Practise till I know each cut, using some hobby store purchased board at at $ per foot before I lay into a $250 M4 stock. You would be crazy to do anything else - unless you make guns for a living. Mike

Just re-read thatpost - the shim goes between the back of the hook and the inside of the tang. Takes up the movement. Not on the back back of the tang where it would push against wood of the stock.

For the overscrewed breach, if you add a washer to the back, to get the breach to square up, you have to add a washer to the shoulder on the inside. I had a gap between the shoulder and the start of the rifling on an old Moroku pistol. I added a brass washer to the inside, carefully fit it for...

Ditto Russ T. Frisson. Walker on 50 grains of fffg at 25 yards - aim and, with good form, outshoot the moderns, then point and pop six, watch everyone on the firing line stop and stare. Love BP revolvers. Mike F

A Walker is a great pistol. Flame and smoke, flame and smoke. It's also great fun outshooting a whole bunch of 9mm automatics designed and made this year with a repro of an 1847 Horse Pistol (a lot of fun). Mike F

Rev. Bill: Where on the Ma - NH line. We shoot out of Ipswich. Club just finished putting in the new range shed, concrete pad and a clear plastic roof. Mike