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Diamond Dot is John Taffin's wife. Mike Venturino's wife's name is Yvonne. She's been featured in his articles since I started reading his material in the late 80s. R.I.P., Mike

I shot these with my 50 smoothbore. 40 & 50grs 3f, a lubed felt wad like in my revolvers, 3 thin OS cards, a brown paper shotcup, 60gr measure of 4 shot, thin OS card. 25 steps. I didn't think it was too bad for taking a s.w.a.g. at it.

I have a 26 inch flintlock, it shoots round ball better than I can anymore. When I built it I shot it almost exclusively and got pretty good with it. 75gr 2f, patch and .600 ball would hit something the size of my hand at 75yds, if I did my part. It would give rifle shooters a hard time. I don't...

I knew and shot with Ted, he was always good to people in my presence. I heard negative about him but never saw it, he was a fun to shoot with. I'm just now hearing this, that's too bad. RIP, Pathfinder

Deerstalkert, That's going to be a honey of a barrel, you should have a nice gun when you're done

I liked the short barreled northwest guns that Northstar had. I believe they were the blanket gun barrel in a full length stock. They looked handy to me, and fun to carry and shoot.

So I'm not the only one? My bedroom is all sorts of classy then, there's a few long guns leaning around the room!

Yep. My trade gun started life as a 54 renegade. I drilled/reamed it to 5/8"/.62/20 guage and turned it 2/3 round. It's short, but a great all around muzzleloader. There's pictures in one of the trade gun or canoe gun threads

Trade guns are the most fun you can have with your clothes on! That's a beauty you have there, you have years of fun ahead of you.

They're a light handgun to shoot those loads, they get vigorous don't they! 😃

Shooting offhand levels the playing field between smooth bores and rifles. I won the high aggregate at a local fall rendezvous once, good for first place for the weekend. I was shooting my trade gun almost exclusively at the time in order to get to know it. Apparently it worked, I tied the high...

Rear sight really isn't necessary if you do as Waksupi says. I did the same when I finished my trade gun and got pretty good with it. I could hit my own hand from 50 yds without much trouble, and 75 yds in decent light wasn't much trouble. Offhand. I had the same thoughts about the accuracy...

Hmmm, that's not much difference at the heel, but the base is the steering end of the bullet, that could possibly be the culprit. Interesting

Bill, Have you mic'ed the base diameter of both bullets? I'm betting that Kerr is a little bit smaller than the J & D. Also, were you able to recover any fired bullets to see what the rifling marks look like at the base?

That's a bummer, I've had great luck with conicals. If you're not hunting anything bigger than rabbits, you won't be missing anything. Balls shoot fine as you already know. Still, it's fun to try different things. Maybe post pictures of your bullets and list your load, maybe we can help

Thanks for your reply. I'll try nitrating my curler papers. I haven't before, but I guess I didn't notice it fouling. I guess I took it for granted that they shot as clean as without cartridges. I'll give it a shot, thanks again for your time

That's one way to do it. You don't want it dripping wet, just saturated. A little tinkering will tell you how much. I substitute deer tallow in that lube, works excellent. My barrels are clean to the muzzle. If you get fouling, add lube until you have a lube star on the muzzle. For range use, I...

I've run up to 9 Brinell without trouble. If you can load them without overly straining the loading lever, you're fine Don't bother with powder coat, if your bullets fit like they should you'll just wipe it off. Pan lubing works great, as does dip lubing base first in melted lube, while holding...

2 Sundays ago, I shot 25 cartridges through my 60 army. They contained 30gr Goex 3f, lubed wads, and 454 ball. I had quite a bit of fouling in the second half of the barrel, something I'm not used to seeing. I'm wondering if it's paper residue. I'll try it without paper for score, then run some...

Not knocking your method, I have access to a lathe, and I would do it your way if making a plug. But the older I get, the more impatient I get! I set my 1851 and 1860 at .003. The front of the cylinder stays clean, but that may be a byproduct of the lubed wads I use.