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Those are the caps we get in France. Recently the supply seems to have improved, they are again available for around 38 Euros for 250. Last year the supply was terrible and profiteers were selling them on Naturabuy (Ebay for Frenchies into guns) for 25 Euros for fifty! I have about 1500 which...

I sign up to an online library called 'Scribd'. Provided it is on their database you can temporarily download anything you want. Recently I read all of Dewey Lambdin's 'Alan Lewrie' series. Dewey Lambdin is an American ex - navy officer, and his books are about a fictitious Royal Navy captain in...

I have a piece of furniture in my Gun Room/library that suffices; an old sideboard from the 1920's. My Black Powder canisters are in the drawer beneath the balls. The drawers are all locked, and of course wood, which satisfies the legal requirements in these parts. It is illegal in France to...

Welcome from France!

My Parker Hale two - band Enfield I had in the 90's. Its current owner asked me recently if I want it back...

Hello and welcome from an Englishman in France. Where you from? I'm from Lancaster, up North.

I know nothing about inlines, though they tend not to be featured here. Even so, a very interesting pistol. I'm not sure you need to change the photo though - it just shows you in your environment. I'm pretty sure that in at least one of my photos there is a .410 shotgun somewhere in the background.

Welcome from an Englishman living in France. Did I see a few violins, a metronome and a trumpet in your photo? Many of us here are musicians too. The pistol you are holding looks interesting is it a San Marco? EDIT: its a .50 caliber T/C Scout pistol! That looks awesome. Breech loading?

Thanks Felix, that seems the best thing. French police will be fine but it's the driving from the North of England and telling the customs the UK side that is the worrying thing. Another option I thought of was taking the nipple off, thus making it technically deactivated...!

...nonetheless, if someone finds a really nice item and gets it for a knockdown price, I am happy to share their experience, and hear their stories, especially if they are relative newcomers and a lucky find makes them more enthusiastic about this passtime. I got a really nice Jukar Hawken rifle...

About 30 years ago I was in the American Civil War Society in the UK, and had a Parker Hale Enfield made into a smoothbore which I held on a shotgun certificate. The chap I gave it to has recently contacted me, noticed I was back into muzzleloading, and has said that I can visit him anytime to...

Well, I don't feel insulted. I am glad to have seen your rifle, and I would be glad to own this beautiful gun based on the photos posted. I have only a few years experience compared to some people here, so I suppose some would say I have no 'valid experience'. But that is not the issue, no one...

I used to have a Parker Hale 1858 2 band Enfield. In Britain they were classed as a 'Navy Rifle', the smaller musketoon being the artillery rifle in the 1850's - 60's. Everyone has their own standard when it comes to calling a gun a 'fantasy' gun. I personally don't like the term as it has a...

30 years ago I had a Parker Hale 2 band Enfield and an Indian built 3 band , which I bought as smooth bores used for re enacting (ACW, Union infantry). When I drifted out of the hobby back in '95 I foolishly sold them: water under the bridge. Anyway, on live shoots I found that patching the ball...

I have a bit of a newbie question on this. The stocks on my guns appear to be varnished, and the barrels of course blued. Would waxing them make any difference at all? I always thought that waxing stacks meant that the wax was absorbed by the wood. But surely this can't happen if it is varnished?

Welcome from France. Just looked at your website - fantasrtic stuff! D you perchance ship to France?

Welcome from France! I hope you like it here. Buck, five muzzleoading clubs! You fortunate man.

I fired my brand new investarm .45 Hawken straight from the shop, without cleaning the barrel out first. This led to a persistant problem - only firing three shots before having to swab out, or taking off the nipple, filling the flash channel with powder, and firing out what had become a...

Well - I'm what you might call an 'old school' Leftist or liberal, but this is a forum about love of Muzzleloaders and other BP guns, so I tend not to make a song and dance about it. I'm not sure what your post alludes to, but like it or not, you are part of a forum which consists, in the main...