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Lived many years in SE FL, Birchwood Casey Barricade will keep your guns in top condition. The problem I had with FL is there were very few matches I could attend.

The CVA and others were likely made of gun barrel steel, which is not expensive. 12L14 steel was used because of its high lead content for easy machinability. Most people think the soft iron barrels on old guns were much more fragile than barrels made of modern steel and that could certainly be...

They were said to have failed during normal use. John Baird wrote a number of articles on the matter in his publication The Buckskin Report.

And the reason Douglas quit making muzzle loading barrels all together was after a number of 12L14 barrels exploded.

There was a big to-do in the '80's about using 12L14 in gun barrels. Might wish to research this topic a bit on your own.

These days I just purchase patching material from Ox Yoke: uniform, repeatable, reliable and saves me lots of time.

I've fired this one many times over the years, and it still shoots very well.

The gunsmith at The Log Cabin Shop in Lodi OH can repair your lock at reasonable cost. They have done excellent work for me many times.

Two different types of shooting. But the Improved American match rifles produced accuracy that could not be matched. Shooters competed for group size as modern benchrest shooters do today. European shooters limited their quest for best accuracy by sticking to lightweight match rifles shot...

Match shooting in the UK was based on military shooting, hence the light rifles, single triggers, prone position etc. In the US heavier rifles with telescopic sights, set triggers, heavy patched bullets and so forth produced unheard of accuracy that at that time could not be bested by anyone...

I don't know. But I can tell you the best of the big heavy bench rifles as built by Warner, Reinhard, Perry, Brockway and others in the last half of the 19th century had barrels at or under 30" in length.

The most accurate muzzle loaders ever made had barrels under 30"....

Take the lock out and check the tightness of the bridle screws before peening and JB welding.

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On a flintlock I pick the vent after every time I clean the barrel: removes blockage caused by fouling that is pushed into the vent by the cleaning patch.

The heavy, scoped target rifles of the mid-late 1800's were [and some still are] capable of shooting excellent 10 shot groups.

The Log Cabin in Lodi OH has a few yards of Teflon patching from The Minute Men (Jerry DeVaudreiul) for sale. I do not know of anyone currently offering it for sale so if you need it there you go.

Putting uniform pressure on the projectile is extremely important when shooting targets for the best accuracy.

I don't know. I do know that a good number of shooters who compete in MLAIC matches now use the Pedersoli.

The Pedersoli 1858 Pattern revolver is the best revolver currently made, though it is a good bit more expensive than the Ruger Old Army.