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Current pricing here is running NZ$39.99 per 100 for No.11's and Rifle Primers - Ouch!!

It was over 35 years ago and I had to pay the freight to New Zealand and they came Air Freight - can't imagine that today!!

Used to buy these from Dixie when I was running my business; they sold like the proverbial hot cakes at NZ$18.00 per 1000!! Although they were corrosive a lot of guys loved them.

Had the L&R Late English Lock on my Full Stock Hawken "Fail" during a shoor at the Marlborough Club - it wouldn't stay on full cock reliably - the fly was not clearing to let the sear drop into Full Cock. A few minutes stoning and relieving the top side of the sear had it back to 100% - in...

Definitely one of the better magazines about our interest - well worth the wait it takes to get to New Zealand!

I have seen reference to Patch Knives in a treatise - they were clearly 'old' - if I can find it I'll post the reference

Drove 'over the hill' to shoot with the Marlborough Club - event was 10 shots at100m - Benched on UIT target - just for fun I shot my Rudyard made 40 cal Bedford - was up against slug firing aperture sighted rifles but managed to burgle the top score!! I guess some days the gods of shooting...

Some years ago I had to pull the Cherry Corners Breech from a friend's Percussion Hawken; It had been shot a lot but always cleaned religiously afterwards with hot water and oiled with 'Young's 303 Gun Oil'. The way my friend cleaned; the tip of his rod and patch could not have reached into the...

Welcome from New Zealand - I have wonderful memories of Canada - shooting at the 1987 MLAIC Champs in Kitchener Ontario. Kiwis and Canucks seem to get on fine!!

The Barrel looks Spanish - I bet Rudyard will know!!

And welcome from Nelson! I shoot with the Marlborough Club and Nelson Pistol Club as well as NZ Antique Arms. My favourite rifle is a 40 cal Percussion Bedford County built by Rudyard. Also have a very nice 40cal Bucks Co. My 'knock-about' and loaner is a heavily modified CVA Kentucky in 45. The...

Shot with DuncNZ at the Marlborough Club didn't see the final tally but pretty sure I won each of the 3 targets we shot. I joined Dunc for a 'team' shoot which we won. The 40cal Bedford was running like a clock. My last target was a 'keeper'. Great day with a neat bunch of guys - going back next...

My 1570's Durch Matchlock by Rudyard is a 44 bore smoothbore - I shoot 90gr Of Goex FFFg (or NZ Holy Smoke) with a longish wad column - thin over powder/3 dry felt /3 lubed felt/3 dry felt /thin card - patched .430 ball from a Dixie Mould - why all the wads? Well the more I put in the tighter...

Watch your windows sash cord works great!!

All I ever needed to learn about Shooting Patched Round Ball Rifles - I learned from my dear departed friend Brian Scott (Scotty) and that was over 50 years ago - everything since then has only 'rounded things out'. He learnt by writing to the likes of Red Ferris; Harry Merklee; Royland...

Coil springs have been around probably longer than we think - the Frenchman Thouvenin used them in his patented lock (early 19th Century I think) - never seen one; but very clever used a collapsing toggle instead of a normal sear arrangement and Pilon used them in his in-lines around the 1860's...

Independant Tests?? - 2 come to mind: 1 run in a British magazine and one done by a local shooter here: They were pretty much the same: 3 pieces of clean - degreased steel: 1 a control; 1 with a quantity of Black Powder burnt on it and the 3rd with a similar quantity of Pyrodex burnt on it. The...

Sorry Okie Hog but a number of independent tests back up my statement

Checked out the Davis Museum at Claremore Ok and Wool-la-roc back in '87 when I was passing through - both just awesome to put it mildly.

If you can avoid using Pyro do so - in my reading about the stuff - 2 main issues come to light - the burning temperature and the corrosive effects; It burns at something like 3 x the heat of BP and it's corrosive residues are an order of magnitude greater than BP. Chrome Moly Barrels and...