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I use arch punches to cut out patches. My 1" punch is now dull. How do you properly sharpen an arch punch? Thanks!

Have a nice 1864 Springfield musket with some minor surface rust on places along the barrel and on the lock plate. Am considering using 0000 steel wool and oil to remove it. What was the degree of polish given the Springfields at the arsenal--220, 320 400?

I have a .58 caliber smoothbore, swivel rifle by L. Day. It shoots like a rifle out to 100 yards with Lyman's 20-ga. shuttlecock slug. It's a perfect projectile for a smoothbore .58 caliber.

Good news. Let's keep an American flinter in business. What is his contact info?

The Nov/Dec 2014 issue of "Muzzleloader" has a fascinating story about the battle of Trenton and Knox's artillery. Here's part of the story. "About 2,400 men were ferried across the river with Knox's 18 pieces of field artillery. Such a heavy proportion of guns to men was almost unheard of in...

Ballistic Products sells the finest, most perfectly dimensioned buckshot available and in the odd sizes we need.

I understand the Brothers are working on a book bringing together all their experience and data.

Thank you, Zonie! Very clear explanation. Now I understand the two systems.

Can you illustrate that relationship?

Good responses all! What I'm curious about is that after that first "protected" first shot with a flintlock in the rain, was the fight Over?

What is the difference in setting up a Lock trigger system in which you can cock the hammer and THEN set the trigger as opposed to a system in which you MUST set the trigger and then cock the hammer?

I'm out there in the field today trying to prime my pan with 25-35 mph gusts that blow the priming charge right out of the pan before I can close the fizzen. Then it begins raining. The flint is wet, the pan is wet, the frizzen is wet-- nothing is working. How did flinters deal with the rain...

Thank you, one and all, for your comments. That's what makes this forum invaluable.

Does this rifle have a quality lock and barrel? Any experience in shooting it?

How did you mount rear target sight on your Volunteer?

I finally emptied my bag of bore brushes looking for a nylon .45 caliber bore brush with a core twisted through the threaded shank. There were Midways and Brownells--some with twisted through cores and some cores just crimped into the shank. Aha, then I noticed that the Brownell bags of brushes...

Good thinking if you're shooting a modern, expanding soft point or monolithic copper pill at 2800-3000 fps, but we don't see that degree of tissue damage with a PRB. The concept is because we don't have violent expansion and a lot of 2nd'dary pieces of lead and jacket material ripping about...

Yup, it was probably a double barrel percussion shotgun or a military surplus CW arm of any type. For a complete history, read "Arming the West" by Herbert G. Houze, available from Mowbray Publishing @2008. Really well documented account.

A couple of thoughts. The typical pattern for a deer heart shot is for it to dash off in a wild run and pile up within 100 yards. I used to hunt deer with engraver and ML historian, Lynton McKenzie. We typically shot original English "express" rifles--50-62 caliber. Lynton insisted that the...

Duane--What is the source for the semi-wadcutter Mini you're using? Thanks