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I can agree in that it is a leather pricking punch. It is interesting that it was made so wide too. I cannot think of anything else it could be either. Maybe they made it for big items like briefcases, large purses, etc.

That is some nice throwing. But I have a hunch it is like getting a hole in one on the golf course.

I use 16 ga shot cups with my .69 musket and my .69 pistol too. I had to buy a case of 500 though. But the price was pretty good at the time. I used the musket for five hunting to good effect. The shot cups really do work too. I like the idea of paper shot cups too. I wonder if they can make...

There’s a pretty amazing piece. I expect that they never really expected anyone to actually shoot it. But back then everyone was wearing heavy clothing and heavy jackets or coats so it probably wasn’t a problem to shoot it. But as you noted there is a lot of stuff in the way to shoot it left...

I have the left hand version. I have shot it quite a few times myself too. Mine was made in Japan by a well known company that made good guns. This was back in the 1970s. But DGW did have guns made in Italy, Spain and Belgium even

I happened upon the horror flick “Waxworks” and later in the movie the hero confronts Marquis de Sade with a trapdoor conversion pistol that looks like a flintlock. They actually showed the gun fairly well too. I was thinking that I wouldn’t mind actually owning a functional trapdoor pistol...

I happened in on the old Waxworks movie from 1988. In a Marquis de Sade confrontation scene the hero had a 45-70 trapdoor conversion pistol that looked like a flintlock. Hollywood special effects houses converted hundreds of old 45-70 trapdoors to look like flintlocks or percussion guns many...

I would try pulling the wedge and any screws holding the barrel on, then heat the barrel around the arbor to expand it slightly, then try using the reload press bar to see if it might come loose then. Or use the brass or wood dowel down the barrel to wack it loose with a wood or leather mallet...

We have them here in the DFW area. But the nests are typically smaller with us as We try to keep them under control with wasp spray. But once they fooled me and there was three bigger ones crammed into our kitchen stove vent. I guess the queen didn’t survive the winter or something preyed on...

Sounds good to me. Punch some out and have a go at it.

Well they have been shipping black powder out to the distributors in 2023. They say they are continuing to fill orders in 2024 too...

One other thought that some rifles have a stepped chamber down near the breech. This is smaller than the bore itself. You have to watch out for it or you would get the jag stuck there too,

And one of Stalin’s Russian KGB assassins used two or three .25acp handguns to murder more than 7,000 Polish officers and elites in WWII too. Granted he was shooting them all at point blank in the back of the head. This was the Katyn massacre in WWII when the Russians systematically murdered...

The .36 cap and ball guns were a lot more effective than people today give them credit for. Way back then it was considered adequate for people stopping. Medicine was very primitive and getting shot with anything usually meant a slow death no matter. The little .22 short revolvers and derringers...

There is no single best lube. Everyone has a different concoction they like to use. All of the different lubes have pros and cons.

As I remember it, there have been a couple three highly suspicious cases of someone getting CJD like disease from consuming CWD infected deer. The establishment of course bad talked it and the media like usual censored it pretty fast too. So it leaves me to think that yes it could be transmitted...

have you noticed in the movies where a sword being drawn always makes a metsl on metal scraping sound? Even when the person drawing the sword is supposed to be quietly drawing it out. Plus the scabbards are all leather or cloth or even none too. More modern is the actor always racks the slide...

Yes, muzzleloaders were still being used until sometime after WWII. Probably into the 1950s or so. They mostly used them to get meat for the table or to put a farm animal down if needed or to get rid of predators. Not so much for shooting people. Smoothbores would have been the most common as...

Well one of the earliest battles in Japan happened on a drizzly day with some fog even. The matchlock gunners actually carried the day and decisively helped their leader to win. So maybe there is a way for these guns to work in the rain. The Japanese had perfected their matchlocks to work in the...

Yes Char cloth is a great way to start a fire. The char cloth has a lower ignition point than other things. Thus it is easier to get a fire going. You cut up you linen rags to fit in a tin box. Then you set the linen on fire and when it is burning good you close the lid thus snuffing out the...