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Nice piece of wood. two questions. How far back is the tang cut into the wood? Also would like to see a picture of the barrel sitting in the barrel channel full length.

if you look at the info from Leonard Reedys journals that Kindig has in Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in the Golden Age the most common repair he made was to freshen a barrel which he charged $0.50. One thing you have to remember is back then the barrels were made of wrought iron which is a...

What kind of work are you needing done?

you need to go to the modern muzzleloading forum we aren't allowed to post those on here.

Look in Rifles of Colonial America Shumway shows several Southern rifles with Germanic locks.

It doesn't really matter which way you measure the charge. Either way you do it the goal is to find the charge that groups the best and then do the same thing every time. I have never weighed a charge or weighed a ball. I was a competition shooter in cross stick and light bench so any rifle I...

Dang how do you shoot offhand with a header that low? I have an adjustable rest but still had to make a box to get it up high enough. Also when shooting an offhand rifle it will be on the rest where my hand would be holding it shooting offhand. If you can't go much higher then maybe make a stool...

If your getting smacked on the bench but not offhand you need to get the rifle up higher on the bench. When I shoot an offhand rifle on the bench it is set up higher so that my cheek will be on the stock the same place as when I shoot offhand. that way you are not over the comb trying to pick up...

This is one I made for hunting/ It has a 45 caliber 1-24 twist to use slugs. I usually hunt in back of my garage/workshop. I was taking the pups out this evening just about dusk and 6 Deer walked out of the woods into the field on the back of my property.

That was about 40 yards, I was shooting behind my garage and that is about as far as I can go without risking the balls going over the top of the hill and leaving my property. I would expect at 50 yards the group would be slightly higher and as the barrel got broke in the group would tighten up...

in my opinion I haven't found anything that gives the same color as naturally aged brass. If it is an engraved part I might do a thin wash of brown paint to high lite the engraving then leave it alone. Real brass will quickly tarnish. The rifle I am currently working on the brass has already...

This target is the first shots from a flintlock I made a couple years ago. The first shot was 2" low which would have been OK if Deer hunting. Then the next 3 shots were a nice group. Filed a little off the front sight and gave it a couple taps right and a couple light taps left on the rear...

The flat sides and sharp angles of a trapezoid is Not anything that would be used on the wrist of a rifle and would probably be very uncomfortable to try and hold.

Wow that one has had a rough life. I would have to agree with Eric on this one a light cleaning and hang it on the wall. There are several cracks in the stock and that lock doesn't look like it is the original on it. Found a listing for a gunsmith Jacob Doll in York late 1700's early 1800's.

I will have to try this. I have never had a rifle that the first shot from a clean bore would group, Have had a couple that were close enough to hunt with but not quiet there in the group. As a match shooter you never fire the first shot from a clean bore for score but hunting is always from a...

I do pull the lock and clean it every time I clean a rifle. I see no reason to disassemble the lock unless there is something that needs to be worked on.

I shot Cross Sticks and Light Bench for many years. Any rifle I used had to shoot at least a 1" or better group. I will admit I don't know anything about physics or for that matter geometry I just did what worked. I would test different loads to find the best one. The barrel rested on the...

This is what I thought of when I read the original post but having no personal experience with Tru Oil I stayed out of it. Very similar to what I do with the Boiled Linseed Oil finish I make and use.

I think my favorite caliber is .45 which I have several. Been thinking about making one in a larger caliber. I've had .54's before so that might be nice built as an early Berks colonial with a drooping feather patch box.

Glad to see I am not the only one who retired and moved back north. I was living in Louisiana in 2015 when II retired and moved back north to central Kentucky.