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When you've shot 4 or 5 of these pre-lubricated patches, take the time to find some of them. They will be laying on the ground 10-20 feet in front of the firing line. If the fired patches material held together in the center of the patch out to just beyond the point where the ball contacted...

Folks This is a WANTED ad posted by New bp shooter. If you have something to offer him, speak up. If you are not New bp shooter and you see something that someone offers but the OP doesn't seem interested in then contact the person using the PM system. I consider it to be very rude to come...

Folks. This is a Classified Ad for selling things. Please keep all discussion to the subject of buying the gun.

Folks: Please do not give your personal information in posts on the forum. Use the Conversation PM's for that.

Welcome to the forum. Talking about an 1863 rifled musket is totally acceptable on the forum. (Both the Springfield and the Remington Zouave). We can also talk about breech loading guns that do not use a self contained cartridge. For instance, several single shots were breech loading but they...

To all: This is the Firearms Identification forum. Please keep your discussions relevant to the 1842 musket in the OP's first post.

Sorry about that. In your original post you said it was a .32 caliber revolver. Had you said it was a .32 caliber pepperbox, my answer would have been different. Pepperbox pistols are essentially pure muzzleloaders and would have used a patched ball just like the single barrel muzzleloading...

If the bore is good, buy it.

Here's a link to our sister forum, Modern Muzzleloaders. It's owned and administrated by the same people as this site. https://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/

As a side note, I will not mark a item SOLD until the person offering it for sale enters a post telling me that it was actually sold.

As dave said, the guns are made in India. India has very difficult to meet laws when it comes to exporting any kind of firearm. By leaving the vent hole out of the gun, it is not classified as a working firearm so it gets around the Indian laws. I suggest following this links to see a lot of...

If it was long enough, I would buy a 3/16" diameter steel or brass rod. Mild steel would be strong enough if your using it correctly and the finish ground rods available at some hardware stores would work even better. As you know, when loading a muzzleoader with a ramrod, the rod is grasped...

Just remember folks, running the mail in shooting contest is a LOT of work. If you take the job, a lot of people are counting on you so give some real thought to taking on the job before you jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Mother Nature is very cruel to older people.

Most of the small pocket revolvers were called .31 caliber after the size of the bore in them. Describing a muzzleloading gun or cap and ball pistol by the bore size was common back in the day. Your pistol should shoot a .321 diameter lead ball. A ball this size or slightly larger will...

Most likely, your pistol will use #10 size caps. They should fit very snugly down over the nipple cone. The thread size for the nipples is another matter. If the gun has a "Made in Italy" marked on it or it has Italian proof marks it would use nipples with a M6-.75mm thread size. Nipples...

I must point out that it is against the forum rules to make an offer to buy, sell or trade anything in any area of the forum except for the Classified ad sections. Folks: Please do not ask others to make things for you outside the classified ad sections.

As was mentioned, talk about modern copper jacketed, sabots and bullets with plastic parts is against the forum rules. This is a traditional muzzleloading forum and the cutoff date for the types of guns and projectiles is 1865. A TC barrel with a 1:48 twist should be quite accurate with a...

If you plan on shooting a 4 bore smoothbore from your shoulder, you may be a lot more WOW than you expected. With it's 1.052" diameter bore it is more suited to being a "wall gun", supported by a yoke embedded in a wall with the yoke and wall taking the recoil.

Your cannon seems to be suffering from corrosion that is forming copper chloride. It may be "bronze disease" which can be very difficult to stop. This link describes possible treatments for it. " methylated or white spirit " is denatured alcohol...