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Did the ricocheting make it harder to read the slug?

to paraphrase an old Sylvester cartoon about a young kangaroo, "Beaver - BBBB..BigBeaver!!" Babbled while pointing & dancing, foot to foot.

A bit odd-looking, but it's a flint. I don't see anything objectionable, much less unmentionable. Looks accurate.

Hi, my name is Rob, and I have a black powder problem, I realize these answers probably also apply to my musket (fusil de chasse), but it's new (to me), was a major stretch to get. Waiting on balls but, after several evenings, cleaning and polishing, I got to run shot through it. It seems to...

Using some stormy weather to go through and lock polish a new to me Fusil de Chasse and to polish and tune the guts of the locks to a SBS, which I've been wor

Your experience describes my loading experience with this one - except that, unless I'm using .480's, I feel the need to swab after the third shot. I've only put about 200 balls through it, so, from other things I've read here, it may well still be settling in. I'd really like to believe that it...

That's a good idea, thanks. The longer I dig & ask questions, the more questions I learn to ask,

There are no hidden markings. About the only thing I haven't had apart ( to check, clean and polish) are the touchhole insert and the breech plug. The touchhole works well, so no need to play with it and I know better than to mess with the breech plug. I'd love to know who made the barrel but...

Thank you.I hope so. I recall reading or hearing about a "choked bore" and wondered if it might be but, when I searched on that, all that came up were references to shotgun chokes of various types and discussions of their use when hunting with slugs.

Running a tight patch from the breech to the muzzle, it feels progressively tighter over the last 1/4 to 1/3 of the bore. I'm satisfied that it's not fouling. I keep the bore polished as clean as possible; checking with a borescope. I bought the rifle,used, in '19 reportedly 25+ years old...

The bore of the nipple does seem a bit large. Hopefully, the replacement will correct the problem. Is that simply a creaes in the casting of the bolster? A hairline crack there, though unlikely, might vent blow back. ( I know photos can exaggerate minor flaws.)

Welcome down the BP rabbit hole. It's nicely warm down here. That's a beautiful smoothie. I look forward to your next report.

Sort of a new guild system, eh?

Thank you for the information. It's a fine, light (7#12oz) tool. Now that I have a properly sized flint, the occasional misfires are cured; it throws a healthy spray of sparks.

Excuse the duplicate. I'm still learning how to wend my way through this electronic forest.

Thank you for the information. Is this picture clear enough? If not, I'll take another tomorrow by daylight.

Thank you very much for the information and for the lead on the stamp. I want to make it as authentic as I can, both for my own satisfaction and to make it a better close-up teaching tool. As before, finding the gun begins the search and dictates a lot of what I do with it. I've come to...

Just traded for this, for my F& I persona. The seller said the consensus of knowledgeable folks he'd shown it to is that it was made by Jackie Brown; apparently, the fancy trigger was a halmark. I've had it completely stripped down: polishing, getting to know it, & searching for any sort of...

Alochol and guns don't mix? I better stop swabbing w/ it. But it works so well... (unless I load before it has dried. Alcohol burn, so does BP. So why does alcohol-dampened powder resist so well?

: I'm just getting to know a new to me 20 Ga Fusil de Chasse. re: stacking of buckshot, when I had a problem & decided to pull the load, & the patch worm wouldn't grab the wadding, I used a ball screw. When I got to the #3 buckshot, they were wedged so tightly I could only get 1-2 free at a...