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Calling Mr Minshall - do you have this rifle in your register?

Why not just buy a Pedersoli 'Whitworth' and cut it down to suit? I would imagine that trying to get a Whitworth lock out of Pedersoli would be like pushing string uphill.

Good luck with that, Sir. Most of us cherish our Whitworth rifles, even though they might only be replicas. I waited almost three years for my first P-H replication - in England, where they were made - before Mr Hale was moved to sell me it. I've never seen one in anything less than pristine...

See my last post here under general muzzleloading? UK prices for caps are $19.96/C - but you have to drive 150 miles to get them - shipping costs $45.

Today's exchange rate is £1 = $1.34 = $19.96/C We're pleased to let you know that we have just restocked CCI No.11 Percussion Caps. Stock is very limited, so don't miss out! You can view our Percussion Cap Size...

All the feeling that you might have had for an object disappear into oblivion the moment they go to somebody else... Back in 1930, my dad bought his first .22 rifle, a Walther model 2, with its unbranded scope. In 1953 it was the first rifle I'd ever fired, as I worked through the experiences...

double post.

You'll need to push a piece of 1/8th diameter welding rod, or similar, so that it goes clear ALL the way down to the nipple. Rudyard mentioned that Nock's guns usually had a patent breech - this means that the diameter of the bore is reduced in the breeching to enable higher pressures to be...

Welcome, Mr Livin'-the-dream! Please tell me about your Pritchett cartridges - I have an original Pritchett volunteer two-band rifle, and have yet to find out what makes it shoot better than a lawn spray.

Welcome from East Anglia, UK. Sadly, it appears that there is no muzzleloader that legally complies with the utter mess that is deer shooting here in UK. But I enjoy reading about the exploits of those who CAN do it. :)

You've already been counted, Gordon! Six, now!

I have an original Pritchett rifle, made by Robert Taylor Pritchett in his St James Street gunworks in 1858.

That's FOUR of us so far!

And me.

Welcome from a location within fifteen miles of Peterborough, Cambs. If you let us know the serial number of your rifle, David Minshall here, from the MLAGB, would like to add it to his register of Parker-Hale black powder rifles. If you are in any way reticent about doing that, you can PM him...

I just called up Henry Kranks and asked their policy on shipping outside the UK. They don't. Financially not viable, by the time they've arranged export licenses and surety bonds et al. However, there ARE ways around this that I can do for friends here, and have often carried out. It must...

This just popped up on my inbox from Henry Krank here in Yorkshire - since I'm a many-year customer, I guess. Look nice, I have to say, especially the Jaeger.... If you want to get your hands on a muzzle loader that shoots as every bit as good as it looks, then look...

Really? 16th Century - Henry VIII and his six wives, Elizabeth 1st and William Shakespeare....Galileo, Sir Walter Raleigh, Mary Queen of Scots...... 17th Century - Jamestown colony, Pilgrim Fathers, Salem witch trials... 18th Century - French/Indian Wars, American Revolution.... I often...

Great envy is mine!! That, Sir, is an absolute gem of a rifle, and one that I'm certain will shoot as well as it looks. I'd love to find one on this side of the pond, however unlikely that might be, but I'll never stop looking. Is that rifling really the hexagon form that it appears to be?

Grenadier, here, made me a couple of custom powder measures for my two favourite loads - 60 and 70gr of 2Fg. One is for the Musketoon, and the other for my original Pritchett Volunteer rifle - out of a tree in his backyard, and I treasure them because of that fact. They both throw within two...