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I had thought about using a fire starter stick on a flintlock. But I never worked out the details. It would probably work better with a wheel lock.

I totally forgot that I had bought a portable band saw some years ago. Of course it is arguable as to how portable it really is. I need to dig it out of my shed. But the hatchet and hand sledge looks promising too.

I go way back to around 1966 when I hit my first muzzleloader. 58 years so far.

I still have a 100 pound ingot. The cold chisel doesn’t my work with it. But it is too heavy to heave up on a band saw. I thing a chainsaw or a sawzall or even a gas torch might do the trick though. Of course maybe a nice back yard camp fire and a big iron pot would work too,

I tried the cold chisel and hammer then small sledge hammer. But that didn’t work out so well for me. I think the band saw or chain saw method or sawzall is a better way to go.

I hope he lawyers up quick. Vermont isn’t a state that is for the people anymore. The police even executed a search warrant right away against the homeowner too. Obviously looking for anything incriminating they can use against him. Anyway good for him. I sure hope it was a large caliber ML with...

The boxes were never meant to be gun cases. Just something to hold the gun long enough to sell is all that mattered.

I think with some practice one could do pretty good with it. Maybe as mentioned already to use a manual trap clay target shooter at first to get some practice in before going to the trap range. With a flintlock one would have to plan the shot, lead, firing and follow up to account for the slower...

Well since trap shooting originated in the 1800s then some folks using flintlocks must have been doing OK. But shooting doubles in skeet shooting would be a problem.

But that was a M1 carbine they showed one of them using it in the battle of Little Big Horn. Ref the Outer limits episode. They also had a Stuart tank too.

The best I have done was I found an old rusted up frozen Red Ryder BB gun at the local car wash one day. I left it in the trash can where I found it. This is Texas and nobody cares here.

Those early attempts when they loaded the conical bullets backwards was the first try at improving stopping power. The wide flat base made for a harder hitting bullet. We do that today with Keith style flat nose bullets too. I remember guys loading 148 grain wadcutter bullets in their .38s to...

Well, the first telescopic sight on a rifle was way back in 1776 as made and done by Charles Peale. He mounted a telescope on a flintlock rifle. He was also the first one to discover scope bite when he fired it too. Which subsequently led to eye relief with a spring loaded device. But since such...

Nice find. Congratulations.

Apparently they did make a few short barrel flintlocks. Maybe more of a European kind of thing. They have a pic of a flintlock with a 12 inch barrel shown here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/18th-century-horseback-hunting-rifle.139354/ There were the various blunderbusses which...

Those are pretty decent buckshot patterns you show there. I can see the progression on the target as you figure it all out. Looks like you got it there at the last shot. Nice blunderbuss shooting.

Shotguns need to be carefully loaded. You need the wads under the shot column to be just right. Then the over shot wad has to go in straight and level too. Otherwise the shot pattern can be severely affected. I tend to cheat and use the plastic power piston cups with an over shot wad to hold it...

It is quite similar to the alarm gun that DgW sold previously. The only reference I know of was someone sold one for $165 way back in January 2021. You can factor in inflation to get todays price for it. Here is that one...

Well if two holes is better then three holes would be more better. My first thought is it was a mistake so they drill the second hole then.

Come to think of it some of those long spine thorns on cacti would make for great natural flash hole picks. You can even carve out nifty little handles for them too.