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Try a wad of your liking over your powder charge and you may see a difference in your patch durability

You, the gun or the components being used in the gun can be 3 main factors. In those 3 main factors can be hundred of possibilities. For the folks on here to help you they will need make, cal., to start with, as Phil was wondering

"counsellors are available for anyone in distress as a result of the lockdown." must be a lot of sissies in that district

seems to be

If you come across Hoppes No 9 black powder solvent and patch lube give it a try, a lot like Ballistol. Who knows maybe the same.

They may not be historically correct, but with some one with vision problems they beat notch and blade hands down. Vortex Optics - Home

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You have to be careful in replacing screws in 2nd and 3rd gen Colt percussion pistols. They are American thread, just like the originals. The Italian repro's use metric thread screws. If you still have the original screw, simply take it to a local hardware store. They will have a gauge to...

my bet would be 8-32 threads, any good machinist shop or gunsmith could tell you in a few minutes

My hunting guns whether cap & ball, percussion rifle, or flintlock, hunting prep is a squirt of contact cleaner in nipple/ nipples, or flash channel, followed with same on patch down barrel or cyl. chambers. also wipe flint, frizzen and pan with same then loaded for hunting. Contact cleaner...

Lee dippers will get you as close as you need to be.

Back a number of years when Cabela's was worth visiting they sold a lube in a white plastic container called, Cabela's (all natural) Muzzleloader lube, color was that of light brown and a thick sticky consistency. Greatly improved accuracy in one of my rifles. Interested if you have any and...

Back a number of years when Cabela's was worth visiting they sold a lube in a white plastic container called, Cabela's (all natural) Muzzleloader lube, color was that of light brown and a thick sticky consistency. Greatly improved accuracy in one of my rifles. Interested if you have any and...

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T/C .36 Seneca # 11 cap using Triple 7 original nipple and have never had a misfire cleanliness on nipple and flash channel is you friend

I use a small pocket screw driver (plastic) handle and tap gently on both of my 1851 Colt Navies for installing and removing the wedge. Actually, I can feel through vibration and sound of wedge when tight enough

I am fully in step with what you say and do for these guns. I did not say, or insinuate these guns are not accurate, as I see it they were built as defense weapons, not a target gun, and to shoot as good as possible, and hold up under rigorous conditions. I am sure that people have done some...

I do not think that the open top revolvers were ever designed to be a target or precision weapon as far as accuracy, it was designed to shot your enemy at a fairly close range, with out the bulk of a rifle, and have numerous shots to do it. Guns have always been tinkered with to improve...

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I have a .36 T/C Seneca shooting a patched round ball with 32 grains ( measured with a black powder volume measure ) of Triple 7 and a steady 10 to 12 mph side wind will move that ball 3 inches + at 50 yds. I do not try to shoot it at 100 yds unless the wind is absolutely dead calm. Some claim...