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ive been thinking about trying 4F powder in my pedersoli screw pistol. its powder chamber is very limited onley holding about 10-12 grains of 3F powder. with this in mind im thinking i could give the little gun more power by loading it with 4F powder. the powder chamber seems very thick and...

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issaquah sportsmen, i love that range. the range masters are cautious but friendly and onley yell at people doing stupid things. they call regular cease fires and lend half the range every third sunday to the cascade mountain men. -matt

will be going to the range this weekend to get er sighted in. still havent got my .570 mold worken right so i will be using a store bought box of .570s. cant wait! on a side note, something i learned is that while the chambers website calls out for 7/8 x 3/4. a 7/8 flint is really too big, i...

as it turns out, my camera sucks. the pictures came out very poor quallity and simply not acceptable to post. if you wanna get a better look at my Jaeger, ya will have to join me for a shoot some time. :wink: -matt

this is good idea, ill contact davis and ask if the swap would work. this is my first time using a gun of this style so ive never had to deal with my fingers being in the way of the set trigger. thanks -matt

my musket averages 30-40 shots per flint with some going well over 60. this depends on how well the flint was knapped and what the flint is made out of. -matt

if youve been to the flitlock section youve seen my new Jaeger rifle. the gun is amazing less one issue that is new to me. ive delt with plenty of double set trigger guns but this one is unique. the way the neck and trigger guard are set up, you put all of your fingers inside the trigger guard...

i didnt want anything fancy, my goal was a sturdy hunting rifle build to resist the enviroment and my clumbsy handling. this gun feels sturdy enough to club a deer to death. at first i wasnt going to have any carving but towards the end of the build i decided i wanted some light work to keep it...

somewhere around 7 months ago i put a request up on this forum for someone to build me a Jaeger rifle. i recieved a number of offered and ended up selecting a gentleman named Joe Schell (longrifle78). we started out with a pile of parts that i had selected via information i got from this forum...

tactical caplock :barf: :slap: ya sure do have some strange tastes cynthia. as for a modern matchlock, well im not really sure how modern a matchlock can be. the device is pretty simple unless your reffering to some of the fancier snapping matchlocks. however there was a guy in the hunting...

this usually happens to me if my primary charge gets moist. sometimes when swabbing i get a little over zealous with the alchohol i use to wet the patch and my first shot will have a delay. -matt

$54 per pound! i just picked up 10 pounds of KIK real BP for $171.00 shipped from powderinc.com. -matt

from posts on this forum id say the 54 is the most popular hunting caliber. gun length seems to be all over the place but id say most seem to prefer the half stock medium length gun (30-36 inch barrel). i personally like the ends of the spectrum. for a long gun (40+ inch barrel) i like 45 cal...

ill give this a try, thanks brownbear. another idea ive had is to set my mold on my electric stove top set to low or maby even the notch above low while my lead is melting. this would hopefully preheat the mold enough to make casting possible. -matt

1100 fps? that seems kinda fast, i always thought they were in the 700-900 range. did you get that speed from a chrono? ive always wanted to see how fast the ball is coming outa my 69 cal musket with a traditional unpatched load. -matt

i thought this might be the problem but i was continuously casting at a rapid rate for more then 90 balls. i took no breaks and the mold had lead in in about ever 5 seconds. the first 15-20 balls were extra bad which i figured was the mold warming up. but still outa the 90 or so balls cast maby...

i just got my new Lyman .570 mold from track in the mail yesterday so i figured id do some casting today. this proved to be a miserable failure. i spent about an hour and a half trying to cast with onley about 8 usable looking balls to show for it. all my balls were coming out with major surface...

as the others have said, i use my foot. -matt

this post made me think. so i just checked my lyman plains pistol and it indeed doesnt have cross pins on its ramrod. how cheap is a company that it doesnt install cross pins in the rod! im gonna have to get myself a number 40 drill bit and add cross pins. -matt