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Okay, I've been playing around with the depth of the flint into the cock jaws and the sharpness, re-knapped the flint, and the bevel position, up and down and I am now getting better sparks than before, thanks for the help, I've been spoiled with my other three flintlocks, they don't seem to be...

Sorry, it seems to be working somewhat better, takes a very, very sharp flint, not like my Centermark trade rifle that produces a good shower of sparks with a flint not near as sharp as the Pedersoli, would this be due to one frizzen being harder than the other?

Sorry, no photo, but after posting I've looked at this a bit more and I want to try a coupld of things, like a new flint, the one I have is sharp, and when at halfcock the flint is right up against the frizzen, almost touching it, the angle of of contact with the frizzen seems good as the cock...

I have a Pedersoli Jeager rifle, which I truely love, but the lock is a mess, the geometry of the cock to the pan is wrong to begin with, and the frizzen doesn't produce a lot of spark, thus I get missfires often. I know there are better products out there in the form of kits, I've looked at...

What is or where do you get Chamber's Black Walnut Grain Filler?

Ok, this is totally off topic but I've got tell this story, the magpie on the fence reminded me of it. For many years I was a field gauger for Chevron here in the oil fields in Northeastern Utah. One day I pulled onto a location and there on the fence that ran around this particular location...

Want a new set trigger out of my GPR? I replaced it with one of Davis' replacement triggers and if it was legle for me to simply ship this to you from here in the states you are welcome to it, no idea how long it would take to get to you, nor what it would cost to ship it, but it's just sitting...

I personally use both, I have all my spare stuff, powder, flints, caps, etc., and tools in a range box I built, and then I have my supplies for what I am shooting at the moment in a pouch, also home made. Using the pouch helps to keep me in practice at retrieving patch and ball when not at the...

Thanks guys. Years ago I saw what I was looking for listed on one of the vender sites on the net, but a lot of those items have gone away due to low sales. The tree is a perfect idea but where we shoot there just aren't any, the waling stick and my own hand will work perfectly, but I wanted...

I am looking for a primitive rifle rest or stick, what ever you want to call it. I've seen them in years past that were made with a brass or steel shaft and then a brass top in the shape of a horseshoe, like those used by the musketeers with their matchlocks. I've tried the normal black powder...

I've used two types of browning in my building life, one was the standard off the shelf stuff sold by Birtchwood Casy, the other was an acid made up by a chemist for the old Green River Rifle Works here in Roosevelt, Utah. The first didn't work as well as I would have liked, but the acid worked...

The pictured rifle is very interesting, I've never seen one with that length of barrel and only one ramrod thimble, is that unique to this particular rifle, or is it something that was done often?

I've mentioned this here before, I believe, but here goes my two cents worth. I started shooting muzzle loaders years ago with a local club and most all of them used the spit patch meathod, some used ribbons and cut at the muzzle but most of us simply used precut patches, cut ourselves, and...

First off I would not try to have them build anything other than a semi finished kit, some may have the skills to do more but many won't, these are just avarage boys after all. I know this because our scout troop did this very thing when my oldest son was a boy scout and I had to do a lot of...

Next time you head into town take both the old drum and the new drum with you and then play around with the standard and metric nuts, burrs to some folks, and see what will thread on easy, you will then know what each is threaded for and can go from there. For me it is a lot easier to stick the...

I have one of those kits sitting in my shop half finished. I got a good start on it and then good weather showed up and I had to shelve it and do other things, will get back to it when the weather turns bad again. I really like the Lyman GPR, in fact it is my favorite of all the production...

I don't mean to hijack this topic but I need to ask, what brand of files do most of you use? I have had some files imported from some place, sorry don't know where, that I picked up at a very special price years ago, folks had several boxes of them sitting on their counter and even then the...

There is something I don't understand in this topic. I and my wife don't smoke, therefore our home doesn't smell of cigarettes, and we want it to stay that way, so when someone who does smoke comes into our home we expect them to abide by our standards as long as they are here, when they leave...

I think I've mentioned this before, but....years ago I was a member of a black powder clug locally, and we shot at aprox. 25 - 30 yards at most of our shoots. The normal load for a 50-54 caliber rifle was 35 grns. of FF or FFF, depending on your preference. None of us wore ear protection as...

Perhaps I am missing something here! Back when I started into muzzleloading I joined a local club and the members told me the first shoot I went to that they would put a dry patch in their mouth, soak it up good, then load with it. The amount of powder that was effected by the wet or damp...