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My first Black Powder experience was in 1969 when I bought a percussion Pedersoli Kentucky Pistol. I had wanted to buy an 1860 army .45 cal. revolver but they were sold out. It had a naval scene engraved on the cylinder and price was right around $100. The Kentucky Pistol I got was .45 cal...

Which is a real shame in my opinion. My longer Early Lancaster longrifle is so much easier and more pleasant to use than my straight tapered Traditions is.

The patch lube is used to help seat the ball more easily. To do that well, it needs to slip down the barrel. A spit patch will slip down the barrel. On its way down the barrel, presuming it is a reasonably tight fit, it should help clean the black powder fowling out of the barrel and the...

Because the barrels at the time were hand-made by hammer forge-welding a wrought iron skelp (flat and long) into a round barrel with no seam. Heat and hammer over and over for perhaps a week around a mandrel of the approximate caliber they wanted the barrel to be. There was no machining...

very true unless the barrel is a swamped barrel, which became really rare after Remington invented a machine capable of drilling out a bore from a molded steel barrel around 1832 if I recall. Those barrels were straight or straight-tapered. The swamped barrels which tapered from the breech...

You guys are all feeding into the "assault rifle" misnomer for weapons not remotely close to an assault rifle. It can't be an assault rifle if it isn't select fire. It's just that simple. This re-defining terms that they love to do is a dangerous pathway. Keep it up and the gun-grabbers will...

At least to start with it won't, because our flintlocks and percussion locks are not classified as firearms. They are classified as antique firearms and are exempt from the Gun Control Act of 1968. That is of course a federal classification and due to the preemprtion laws I don't believe it a...

ABSOLUTELY!....uh...yes, it does...drives me nuts.

The German "Sturmgeweher 44" in WWII was the first actual "assault rifle". It's name actually translates as "assault rifle" and it was he first to have a select fire switch, which is the defining feature of an assault rifle. With the flick of a switch it can go from semi-auto fire to full-auto...

Geometry of the strike is off. Your flint is hitting it too directly and is smashing the tip of the flint. The flint needs to slice down the frizzen from the time it strikes it. A longer flint will just make it worse. Flipping it over might make it work because it may hit the frizzen at a...

I have two longrifles, one production rifle (Traditions Pennsylvania Longrifle) and one Early Lancaster with a 44½" swamped barrle by a private builder. Although the Early Lancaster is longer than the Traditions longrifle, it is almost 2-lbs lighter and a pleasure to mount, hold on target, and...

Of the BP substitutes that I have used with my cap and ball Pedersoli Kentucky Pistol (bought it in 1969), the "777" was the one I liked. Hot water works for all of them but you have to scrub a bit with the Pyrodex to get it clean and it fouls more than the 777. Pour a little water on the 777...

LOL....I used it as a hammer to attach my targets to a piece of wood when I lived in Vermont and was shooting on a clear, cold Winter day where it was 11°, which was warm for that time of year. Spit patching worked and I used the Bore Butter to hammer small nails into my targets to attach to...

Makes good sense. Thanks Jay!

and here's another video from the opposite side that shows how he uses the hammer better because his arm isn't in the way: 😅 😅 😅 :doh: Obsidian is super sharp and can produce an edge that is only 1 molecule thick. They actually use it as the blade in a scalpel for some really fine work...

And here's another video from the opposite side that shows how he uses the hammer better because his arm isn't in the way:

Jay didn't you have file or sand the deer bone into shape? I don't believe bone has the interior structure to knap reliably does it?

The best thing to do is knap outdoors in a bit of a breeze, or turn a fan on your face while you're knapping if there is no wind. Otherwise, you would need to use one of the K-95 masks or industrial repirator to keep the minuscule flakes out. If you ever cast your own lead balls, you also want...

And that is very true!! Like anything else that takes skill, you have to develop the skill. With D.C. Waldorf's book, "The Art of Flintknapping", you will understand how it works. But it will take you a lot of practice and broken spawls to become good at it. As he mentions in that book...

A good magazine-size paperback book by D.C. Waldorf, "Art of Flintknappin" is an excellent book to get started with. At the very end of his book, he gets into how gun flints are made and they are made quite differently than arrowheads, spearheads, knives, and axes. You really need a core to...