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I believe this is the type of trigger you have from what I can see in your picture. Note the long wire spring that acts on the front trigger. That is the part you need, or one similar to it. Unfortunately its on back order but if you're handy you might be able to make one from a length of...

I agree with Brokennock, not really needed. But if you still want one, small coil springs can be found in ball point pens and Bic lighters. Cut to length needed. I think Ace Hardware might also have an assortment of springs.

Thanks Rudyard. You're right about the line. That's what I get for trying to quote from memory. Too lazy to go downstairs and look up the poem in my edition of The Complete Verse of Kipling. And yes, when I posted somehow "b*itch" did get changed to "gripe" which I thought must have been the...

Not that I want to pick a nit but I think it was the old Buckskin Report that covered this. I still have them around somewhere. I have one of Jerry's 35" .50 Orion barrels that I bought around 1978. It's one of my most accurate rifles. And I do like Kipling although I've never Kippled. ( When...

Nice looking rifle. I think you'll like the combination of 38" barrel and .50 caliber. I just finished one in Sept with the same setup and out of the 9 rifles I've built from 44" to 31" I think the 38" handles the best. Good luck with it.

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I had trouble with their English style lock and after using it for a couple years sent it back. Turns out there was a change in the frizzen spring. The upper arm with the roller was made slightly longer. They replaced it no charge and it works 100% now.

I recall making breakfast on Boy Scout camping trips by cutting an orange in half, removing the sections, and cracking eggs into the cups made by the peel. Set them in the coals while you ate the orange, by that time the eggs were done.

I operate on the theory that you modify the least expensive part, either in time or money. If it was me I'd bend the wedge slightly. No sense mucking about with the barrel and tenons. And I'd take Grimord's advice and capture the wedge. It's easy to do with escutcheons. On my English rifle with...

Difference of opinion is what makes horse races. I've shot pistols in different competitions since the mid 70's and I find it useful to concentrate on the alignment of both sights to call my shots. Front is clear but I can still see the rear even if fuzzy. Everyone has their own style.

Sights are the Colts big drawback. Who wants the rear sight dropping out of view when the hammer falls? Awful hard to call your shots when there is no rear sight to reference.

I've found that dabbing Ballistol on mosquito bites will take the itch away within minutes. Your mileage may vary.

While perusing RCA I & II, I ran across 2 Lehigh rifles without patchboxes. Either would made a fine rifle to emulate. No.'s 58 and 59.

I've had several over the years, got rid of all of them. The only one I thought was worthwhile was the Pa Hunter in flintlock. Got rid of the QLA barrel and replaced it with a regular T/C 1 in 66" barrel and it wasn't too bad. I used it as a loaner for my SIL. After my daughter divorced him, I...

Why do you want more speed? Much better to try for more accuracy.

Fort Chambers Black Powder Gun Shop....here's a link to its web page............https://fortchambers.com/httpdocs/index.html

If you do go back to Gettysburg, check out Lord Nelson's Gallery for some great art. Also Chambersburg has a M/L gun shop.

Harrisburg has a nice Civil War museum......or a nice War Between the States museum if thats the way your stick floats.

Glad I ran across this post. I bought a Pietta double about 20 years ago off a friend on the old TMMH forum. The left bridle was broken but I made a new one using a hacksaw, files, and a drill press and a piece of scrap steel . I've been meaning to make one for the right lock just in case but...

While not exactly history Kenneth Roberts wrote a series of novels about American history from the FIW to War of 1812 including one, Oliver Wiswell, told from the point of a Loyalist in AWI. All very readable and entertaining.