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Have you tried the Lee Shavers method of lapping the bore? Or scrubbing the bore with maroon Scotch Brite pad and a lubricating oil?

I absolutely agree with both of you when it comes to everyday accuracy. I was blessed from the very beginning of my flint longrifle journey that started in June 1971 when I was 17 years old. For whatever reason, by my second range session, I stumbled upon that magical combination of patch...

When I started in muzzleloading I purchased fffg black powder for the .44 caliber percussion cap & ball revolver that was my first gun. When the. 45 caliber flint longrifle (GAA Douglas barrel) showed up in the mail right after my 17th birthday, that's what I used, with great success, and...

I believe that anything larger than 10 gauge was outlawed in the early days of the states establishing their variously named Fish & Game Departments. The reason being that a lot of winged upland game, but most especially waterfowl had been nearly made extinct by market hunters in the 19th &...

Which size mold Moose Moulds just happens to make, since who knows when Lyman will start production of ball molds again?

PM Osprey over at ALR forums. He purchased a .66 caliber, Rice, Early Dutch Lancaster, 41" long barrel, with the 1.312" diameter breech from a fellow forum member. Last I recall, he was working on a rifle with the barrel inletted into the blank. That was several months ago. Bore diameter =...

Or, have a bunch of abbreviations tacked on at the end of his name. I wonder what Charlton Heston would say? Or, Robert Redford? You could always have Rock Hudson stopping off in St. Louis to pick up a Hawken from Sam & Jake on his way West. Where he would meet Doris Day, and fall in love with...

Back when I got started in muzzleloading (1971), with flintlock longrifles, NO ONE was talking about, or explaining the reasons behind why a shooter/hunter should keep track of the diameter of the orifice in a touch hole (flintlock), or nipple (percussion). Fast forward 50 years, and the...

I suspect that in another 75, or so, years there will be a third resurgence in the interest in sidelock muzzleloading guns. A lot of the inlines have far too many nooks and crannies where the least amount of corrosion will render the gun inoperable. I don't see them having the same kind of...

Our current dollar purchases less than it did in 1971 when the semi-custom, Golden Age Arms Company, .45 caliber, brass-mounted, Lancaster longrifle showed up unannounced in my parents dining room one day when I got home from my after high school job. I paid $330.00 for that first flintlock, and...

If it was real, they would have put it in an auction like Rock Island, long ago. They are just waiting for P.T. Barnum's unsuspecting sucker to show up with $1,800.00 worth of STUPID MONEY to buy it.

Back when muzzleloading weapons were required for war, self-defense, and to put food on the table, the ability to cut male & female threads as accurately as we are able to do today, was simply not possible. Therefore, a lot of 18th & 19th Century guns had breech plug threads that by today's...

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IMO, those through holes drilled to create a flame channel connecting the bottom of the nipple seat hole to the powder chamber should be plugged by screw threads & hole threads that are machined to minimum tolerances. This will provide as tight a permanent lockup as is possible to machine. In...

With all the posts/threads lately about big bore hunting rifles I am sorely tempted to ask Colerain to make me a .62 caliber barrel with the following attributes 1. 37" long** swamped** octagon-round rifle barrel** w/a double-tapered flared muzzle 2. Modified & shortened, Honaker, S.W. Virginia...

Too many home "gunsmiths", and I use that word loosely, think that jobs like drilling and tapping holes in the barrel of a gun for scope bases are something that ANYONE CAN DO. After all, the tools are readily available for purchase, and there are PLENTY of YouTube videos to show somebody how...

Life showed up, and all my weapons were sold. No regrets.

pamtnman What rate of twist, and groove depth did Scott cut for you in this barrel? I loved my .62 caliber Getz barrel with its 1:48" twist in the iron-mounted, Lancaster-style, Siler flintlock longrifle that I owned for a short time in the 90's. It was a tack driver at 100 yards. Could keep 5...

I probably should have mentioned in the above post, that unless you are going to make from scratch, a tool similar to the ones being sold on eBay as breech plug wrench tools for Thompson/Center rifles; for ANY OTHER BRAND of rifle's breech plug that you are contemplating removing....... Then...

Over at Modern Muzzleloading a while ago Idaholewis posted a thread detailing exactly what he found necessary to remove all three sizes of Thompson/Center breech plugs. For the type of long distance target shooting that he does the interior of the breech plug MUST BE free of any manufacturing...