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I remember one of the old catalogs, can't find it at the moment, but it was Bannerman or Sears in the 1920s or so, advertising Trapdoor Springfields (for a ridiculously low price) with the comment that "our Civil War veterans will remember these well..."

Albania - as the map shows, across the Adriatic from 'the back' of Italy. In the 19th Century, a major Ottoman gun-making industry there. Most familiar are the 'rat-tail' miquelet pistols. Also a gunflint industry, using a very different technique from the Fr and Brit flints.

How to write for muzzleloader magazines and web pages. With this simple guide you can write like an old timer, even if you wear a tie and have never handled a gun. Just start the sentence and select a different word each time you need to make a decision. Without even a computer to screw it up...

How the heck can you see the back sight with that thing in place?

Thanks for the help guys. It has AA in a square on L side barrel near breech so I guess that's 1975 by Grenadier's chart. Do you know the rifling twist rate? I need to get a new rear site. If I file down the foresight, I'll be down on the barrel before I get aimed high enough - the rear sight...

Friends, I just acquired a Navy Arms / Zoli 1803 Harpers Ferry. Nice gun, seems accurate the few shots so far. Can anyone tell me when it was made, and rifling twist rate? Seems to have a serial number 8858 It's .58, although I can't get it to take a .575 ball, just .562 so far. Also, although...

That all makes sense - but a bit too modern. No universal sign language was available. Nobody but a few locals in Mexico, the Arctic, S. Am. knew about atlatls. And I wouldn't recommend them as a survival tool anyway - take too much practice to be accurate. Bow is better, but if you want small...

Most of us take photos at least some of the time when we hunt, especially when we get game. So I'm interested in what folk think makes a good hunt photo, the picture you show your friends, put on wall .... or post here. Uusually that means you with the animal, but ther are diffeernt styles. For...

I hunt in Iowa with a friend, we use real muzzleloaders (caplock and flintlock), in muzzleloader and shotgun seasons, but none of our other friends do. I looked at 2 yrs of Iowa Sportsman, which every year prints whatever 'deer harvest' photos hunters want to send in. Over 250 photos, only...

If you have a nice flint and steel fire kit, you don't want just any old sharp rock in it. I make flints similar to those that the British gunflint knappers produced. They are all different hard flint/chert flakes, mostly varieties of US chert, flat enough to fit in a box, large enough to hold...

Nope, not a commercial, just trying to provide some historical background and info to the community. Lord's film is a good way to see gunflints being made. There are also older historical ones on youtube if you look. Track o W sells good British flints made by a Tom Fuller. They are made...

Edwards organized a small group of knappers in Brandon into the 1960s. The last of these still working was Fred Avery, who died 1996. Today Will Lord does good British flint gunflints and archaeological replicas. Sells a nice film showing gunflint making 2014 How To Make Gunflints, with Will...

Yes and I'm sure all you other flinters are aware that for home use and the fancy folk (since they were surely expensive) there are flintlock tinder pistols, basically a pistol without the gun - instead of priming and a barrel with charge, the hammer kicks back the frizzen to expose a box...

It's Moroccan or Algerian, probably 19th century. These guns kept many obsolete features derived from earlier European guns. According to Elgood, this one should represent style from the Tetuan N Coast, N of Fez on plains below Atlas Mts From Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World: P67-68 – The...

I hope Cowboy who complained about the "liberal NYC" bad guy who bought Cabelas noticed in this article (which he 'liked') that the bad guy, Paul Singer, is "a major Republican donor." Liberal or conservative, the rich and the big corps don't generally have our best interests in mind.

There is lots of info on knapping. Two good instructional books - Whittaker - Making and Understanding Stone Tools, and DC Waldorf - Art of Flint Knapping. Both oriented toward more complicated knapping but good info on basics. And youtube has zillions of videos, many crap but lots of good ones...

I bought an Indian Baker from Discriminating General, 2006, $468. I didn’t buy the accompanying bayonet as I don’t see a use for it and don’t intend to do reenactment. Despite DG’s claims of historical accuracy, they have the wrong lock on it. The Baker, until its last stages, had the flat...

Go see Baker's old accounts. Cheapo reprints online + Amazon. My notes when I read it. Baker, Sir Samuel o 1889? [1854] The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon. The Burroughs Brothers Company, Cleveland. Shooting adventures 1845-53. Ah, what could be more English than...

Check out Baker's book for contemporary accounts of hunting with huge percussion guns. My notes when I read it. Baker, Sir Samuel o 1889? [1853?] The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon. The Burroughs Brothers Company, Cleveland. Shooting adventures 1845-53. Ah, what...