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Well Fudd, that hat looks fffine.

I am no expert, but, I believe that makers mark on the lock may be John Manton & Son; London gunsmiths of the period. I am sure that those with much greater knowledge of these guns will eventually see you post and respond.

I rescued one like that several years back; I used pop sickle sticks to make a spacer between the stock shoulder and the nose cap. Put it this way, it looked a lot better than gap that was there.

I have done a couple of CVA re-dos (beech stocks) in a Leman style using leather dye. I have used Cordovan for the stripes because it is dark and I already had some. I took a cheap 1 1/2" bristle brush and cut the bristles short (probably a 1/4" from the metal band) and then cut in gaps to...

I grabbed a semi-buckhorn from my salvage box that I believe came off of a CVA Hawkinish something or other and put it on her. It looks very similar to a couple of the semi-buckhorn sights available from Track of the Wolf. She shoots great; a ragged hole at 25 yards. As I recall she is right on...

Kinda like going to the grocery store thinking turkey dinner with all the fixings sounds great, but when you get there the turkeys are all full price and the spiral sliced hams are on super sale............here piggy, piggy. Yum.

Jake, I picked one of these rifles up a couple of years ago (.54) and it had a modern looking ramp slide Williams rear sight on it at the time; as I recall from my research back then, as I contemplated finding an original factory rear sight, the most common complaint I found in product reviews...

Finally, something that might actually justify a whole new thread on how to clean your muzzle loader.

Pic from 2010 N/W lower peninsula of Michigan near the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Well now, that is going to be a short thread...

This one was molesting my squirrel hunt; and, no doubt about to do tree damage.

Most probably made by Investarms (Italy); look for a fairly large makers mark on the barrel; a capital I inside of a square.

My disclaimer up front; I'm no kind of expert on this subject! When this question comes up there are always a couple of examples put forward of arms of the 18th or 19th centuries (and before) that have or had some type of aperture sight. Of course those examples would be the few, not the many...

Since others of greater knowledge than I are guessing, and since my seven year old grandson, home for the holidays has already exposed the depth of my lack of general knowledge with non stop questions for the past week..........here goes another guess. Could it be the mechanical movement of the...

I feel better now; kinda like maybe saving a life. It shouldn't be too hard for you to find some .440 round balls; try those with some .015-.018 patches and let us know how it shoots. T/C Maxis style bullets can be had from Track of The Wolf. I don't shoot those very much, but run across them...

I know that you want a different caliber, but you might be wise to wait a second before using that barrel. Just my opinion, but every T/C that I have had that had the Spade stamp on the barrel shot extremely accurately. I don't want to start another ten page thread on the various stamps on T/C...

For what it is worth, the Pedersoli website has a recommended load chart. For their .36 caliber models they suggest using a .354 round ball with a .010" patch. I started shooting my Frontier model with .350 round ball and Hornady buck with a thicker pillow tick patch. She didn't start to get...

OK, I'm ready to jump in on this one. I bought a box of Hornady buck several years ago and have had mixed results. The buck shot has a slight band or ring around the center making each ball less than uniform; I have totally given up on trying to find a method to load with the band in the same...

This is the method that I first learned many years ago from a prominent gunsmith's how to book. However, I must admit that the very last time that I tried it the center punch crater continued right down inside of the bore; that is a sick kind of feeling to have even if your only working on a cap...

Hey, you stole my dream! Congrats; that is a great buck.