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The wiping stick for my rifle has a threaded socket on the butt end. The wiping stick for my FdC is just plain wood. For the fusil, I have a separate range rod.

Tie it your knapsack. Or roll up all your truck & plunder in it and sling it over your shoulder, the ends tied shut.

My thought exactly. Beautiful work!

No.

My study is incomplete. So far, all the references I've seen are military.

Some sort of half stock percussion lock rifle with double set triggers...scratch the double set triggers. Make it a single trigger and build a Leman.

I see the value in posting a yes-it-can-be-done sort of video. As pipe smoker myself, I'd save the charcloth for a situation where I really need it. On a sunny day, as depicted in the video, I'd use a burning lens.

I miss Oregon.

Sounds like a lot of bother to me.

No, stick to round ball. IIRC I don't think the rifling twist is optimum for the Minié ball.

After reading this, I think we've nothing to fear from AI. A good story teller could smoke a joint and write better fiction.

Yeah, you're probably right.

You'll need: Black powder, 2fg granule size to start out with. Some use the finer 3fg. This is where the experimentation comes in with load work up etc. 4fg for priming. Some use whatever they've got in their main horns. That works, too. If you use 4fg to prime, you'll need some sort of a...

I'm aware of one left handed trade gun in Kevin Gladysz's book The French Trade Gun in North America, p. 93. That's one out of how many in the same book? Not very common, I'd agree.

Yup.

Enjoyed the video, Mark. Your results with the patched and then wadded .600" ball loads compare favorably to mine. Difference is I use a .610" ball. I'd say try the patched and unpatched .600" ball loads at 50 yds. and show us how that worked.

Where did they come up with this bit of information, you ask? My hunch is in a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant.

I use a priming horn.

I think you'll find it most instructive if you try the above as an experiment. Then post photos on the forum to show us your results. Should be fun.

Yes, it can in my experience. I have ceased using it as a wad directly over the powder charge, and now moisten it before pushing it down atop the ball.