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I have had to walk up on a deer and fire a finishing shot at a distance if only a couple feet due to terrain and brush, a pistol would have been nice. As has been stated .50cal. is minimum required. I’m not personally confident in it being enough and would prefer .54 up. For a back up gun I’m...

This time on a old two piece CVA kit gun. This one was easier than the TC replacement I did last. The kit was only basically assembled. This made aligning the touch hole etc easier. The factory inletting was terrible as allways. The RPL lock plate fit the mortise better than the factory lock...

I’ve used squeeze ketchup bottles from the dollar store for years. Just fill the bottle with powder stick the nozzle into the tip of the horn and squeeze. So easy I can do it. I have one bottle with the stock tip and one with the tip cut back a bit for more flow. If your really cheap like me you...

If the barrel was breached by Getz then there is only a total of 1/2 inch of thread to start with. If the edge of the fence of your locks pan is even with the rear end of the barrel your breech face should not need more than a slight notch probably less than 1/8 inch or less. We need pictures to...

Yes the land of nearly right. When soft soldering fit and cleanliness are paramount, along with surface area. Given a good fit and appropriate surface area separating properly soldered parts will be destructive to the parts. But a poorly soldered joint will not survive hand pressure before...

I see you obtained .530 dia balls. Try them with even thicker patches, say .025 or heavy denim. Some of our club members have had success with these combos. Especially with round groove barrels. BJH You were concerned with lube contamination, I routinely use a shirt cardboard disk under the...

I need to differ here for safety. As a gun builder I cringe when you speak of drum to lock plate clearance. The powder drum Must be supported by the lock plate. Or metal fatigue will eventually set in at the junction of the powder drums threaded shoulder and threads, making the drum a potential...

Try scraping the breech face with a breech scraper. Under certain combos of humidity and temperature I’ve had fouling buildup on the breech plug face that doesn’t respond to the usual wet patch treatment. The carbon crud cake eventually blocking the touch hole liner from the rear. I good...

When I run our clubs novelty shoot I usually have crackers hung from strings. Spaghetti noodles standing in blocks. Clay birds hanging from strings at 50 yds. Cards on edge, and about anything my demented mind comes up with.

For my .58 caliber deer hunting rifle I use olive oil lubed patches with a over powder card between the patched ball and powder. In this gun there’s no change in accuracy either way. But when I pull a ball with no card I always have some presumably degraded powder stuck fast to the patch. The...

My friends who shoot flint lock chunk guns use white lightning liners with their stock hole size. A bit smaller than 1/16 inch dia. And change them out when it erodes x amount. I dont remember what diameter pin guage they use, but it’s only a few thousandths bigger than the stock hole dia. BJH...

I’ve used a plastic squeeze ketchup bottle to fill my priming thingies and my powder horns. You can buy them in the dollar stores by the pair, for ketchup and mustard. You can fill a horn with almost no spillage in minutes, just stick the nozzle into the horn and squeeze. Best horn filler I’ve...

The hole in the spout end of the horn is tapered an so is the peg it’s a friction fit.

One thought, talk to a expierenced gun builder and have another Colerain barrel installed. Keep your choked barrel for shot, swap it out for round ball. BJH

I use post it pad paper. I trim the sheets to only have one thickness of paper when it’s wrapped around the mandril. Then I fold over the bottom and stick it shut with hot glue. I shoot 28 bore and 24 bore trade guns. I have best results with slits in the cups. I’ve had slugging issues with...

I’ve used JB bore paste for lots of fine lapping jobs. It’s so fine is pretty hard to hurt anything. Although nothing is foolproof. BJH

Any caliber rifle will make hamburger out of a squirrel. Think.22 mag. Taking body shots. I favor .36 because you get a full 5/16 ramrod. Plus the balls and cleaning stuff is much less fiddley. On the range it carries better at 50 yds in the breeze. Definitely better for fox or coyote medicine...

Building a long rifle from a parts set like Tracks needs patience and a good handle on the relationships between the parts. None of the operations of building a simple long rifle are terribly difficult. However they all need to be executed very well or the accumulation of errors will lead to a...

Dixon’s book is much better for a beginner than Alexander’s

You are forgetting that Jim Kibler does not as yet offer a left hand kit.