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I've done both, and both look great on the rifles. I believe in the iron for authenticity. CCH is just plain wrong, IMNSHO!

It is a single barrel. I referred to it as a trade gun, but now believe it to be a darn nice single barrel sporting gun. Sure wish there could be a way to date it. Wonder what it might be worth?

What lube are you using? I use moose milk almost dripping. Should load down bore with modest effort to seat firmly on the powder. 2fG is proper/best to my mind and experience. 3fg will work fine, too, esp with the modest 80 gn charge. I use 535 balls with 18 thou patch & shoot a match b4...

I'm helping the widow of a dear, departed friend by researching her guns. One is a HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY Imperial No 2 trade gun in 26ga percussion. It's truly a beautiful small-ish trade gun in as-new condition. Has nice, old-school engraving and subtle color case hardened lock plate. I seek...

Not really...those were mortar bombs...spherical iron shells with small balls inside and a bursting charge to break it all up into a shower of iron fragments to fall down inside the fort. Not used to cause explosive destruction.

I don't know the name above, though.I would dearly love to see pictures of gun and signature. I built my first Hawken (using the Cherry Corners kit of parts with Douglas barrel in walnut stock) in 1974. That was copied from Kit Carson's Hawken. Cherry Corners sold to Ithaca, thence to Navy Arms...

It has been rather entertaining, hasn't it? What's so crazy is how posters really seem to believe the crap they're posting! 1. Flint strikes steel (frizzen) & scrapes/scratches off tiny bits of steel, which causes tiny bits to high temperature. 2. Tiny bits of steel burn in presence of...

I've shot lots of BP revolvers over almost 60 years and NEVER had a multi-fire. NEVER used wads, neither. Always used grease over ball. The larger and/or thinner caps are a real PITA. Remington caps are the best. CCIs are good too. Blown out caps fall into the works and can ruin your day.

A great story!

Yup...lotsa ex-spurts out there! Truth of projectile design development and experimentation is really quite interesting.

Muzzle down for any fine wood-stocked long gun. In a sock. Barrels are heavy. Stocks begin to crack under the long-term effect of gravity. Ever notice how many long guns have cracks at the wrist after several decades stored horizontal? Butt stocks are heavy, too! Worst way is at a steep angle...

48 in twist is pretty slow for longer conicals. There are some bullets made for muzzleloader use that may work better. Just choose the lighter/shorter bullets for best stability.

The first picture shows a Ruger Old Army (ROA) with shorter barrel. Rarely seen were these, and also rarely were ROAs with plain (non-adjustable) rear sight, made to comply with rules for Cowboy Action Shooting or other competitions. Remington-style? yes! And the BEST shooting modern percussion...

I've been a charcoal burner over 60+ years. Was pres & cto of a company that sought to commercialize a "different" black powder. I was a competitive shooter since 1975 with shooting buddies of national rank & records. I've shot & won using all grades from 5fg (standard granulation ground finer...

The form of ball with more or less flat base and pointed nose was called a "Pickett ball". Sorry, I misspelled Picket ball. See Ned Roberts Muzzleloading Caplock Rifle p 91 for pics and discussion. This is the general form of all bullet moulds I've seen for revolver bullets. Lee made/makes a...

Our muzzleloading club in Northern California had a Buggy Rifle that made it thru the ranks of members' kids. My two sons used in shoots. Youngest son used it to shoot and set an unbeatable Western States record 50-5X while young enough to shoot Pee-Wee, he won the juniors class that year. Alas...

Been building & competing since 1974. Swamped is by far best, esp for flinters. Straight taper second, mostly for newer (percussion) halfstock guns. Straight is out of the question for me, 'cept maybe rested heavy barrel target guns.

Static electricity can't ignite ANYTHING. Static electricity exists as a static (unmoving) charge on a surface. The electrostatic discharge (movement) of that charge can & does ignite stuff. Voltage is very high to leap across gaps. The "spark" you see is a very low energy plasma containing...

Thank you for figuring out how to post this video. I knew Cletus pretty well, and have held this rifle in my own two (gloved) hands. He also told me the story repeated in the video of how he acquired it and its hunting history. He had 9 huge safes with outstanding amazing, mostly antique, guns...

Darn nice Hawken replica. However, comb, lower and fore-end lines look dead straight where there should be very slight curves & swells. Odd angles of the photos accentuate these, and make it hard to see a lot of other detail. Overall very nice job!