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Basically, choked and cylinder bores are different animals. A shot charge going through an unchoked barrel is a compact static mass. In the period before chokes were developed, loading more shot than powder was the standard method used to tighten the pattern, with 1/3 more being a commonly...

For what it's worth, some members on here have reported tighter patterns in their smoothbores with Fg or the Swiss 1.5Fg, especially with heavy shot charges for the bore/gauge. Some of this may be related to barrel length, chambered vs. plain breech, wadding, etc. You'd be best to try the...

It can happen in a smoothbore, especially with a bend or a dent near the muzzle. Actually, a deliberate bend down to give consistent "backspin" was sometimes used in period* to give improved accuracy and reduced drop, just as is done now in paintball. Regards, Joel * but I can't find the...

You've been playing this game longer than I have, but you have not yet mentioned this, so I'll ask for verification: Have you also ruled out potential bedding problems - straight barrel channel, tang/breech bedding, binding pins & tenons, etc.? Regards, Joel

You should be able to find lots of threads on turkey loads in this forum and in the Muzzleloading Hunting. Another great place to start is Forum member Spence10's Blackpowder Notebook website, and in particular the articles Blackpowder Shotgun Basics and The Versatile Smoothbore . To...

We might get more information if the moderators move this to the Firearms Identification forum, since this concerns an original, not a reproduction. Regards, Joel

Brad - 16ga double w/ no chokes, 1.1/4oz bismuth #4s over 2.3/4dr of CTG or FFg, for potholes or jump-shooting ducks. One of my partners uses 1.1/4oz of NiceShot #4s over the same volume (3dr) of FFg in a choked 12ga double for ducks, snows, and lesser Canadas. I use a 2-petal paper or light...

The one on my Frontier is like that, and what I wound up having to do is to use thin sheet lead and make a gasket to fit between the lock and the barrel, with a thin ridge folded up to fill the slot. I rub a bit of beeswax along the barrel and the inside of the lock to complete the seal when I...

Hey, Wes. I thought I recognized that hand! :grin: Actually, I know that situation fairly well. For a while, I was doing a moderate amount of background work and I think I was recognizable once, maybe twice, in Lonesome Dove, the Outlaw Years and maybe in one place in In Cold Blood. Ah, well...

You may hold whatever opinion you want. The problem may not be common, but a fair number of us or our hunting partners HAVE experienced and/or witnessed conicals, especially but not exclusively Minié-type hollow based ones, moving off the charge or even sliding all the way out, or moving under...

They were filmed around here. I was an extra on one, the 3rd I think - there were a bunch of Henrys or pseudo-Henrys among the long-arms. The bad guys are robbing something (bank? gambling house?) in town (actually part of Heritage Park in Calgary) and the locals got wind and set up an ambush...

Interesting possibility, but on the other hand, when you put your horse into the stall, or your car into a parking stall, etc. it's a place, a receptacle, or an enclosure, not a piece of metal. Various on-line dictionaries give something similar to these for the origins: Middle English, from...

You don't have to go all the way from 1/16"/.0625 up to 5/64"/.078", at least not for your first step in opening the touch-hole up. There are several numbered drill bit sizes in between. IIRC, #50 or #51 are often cited as working well when someone wanted to go up from 1/16", at something like...

Solutions of alum and solutions of borax and/or boric acid have been used as fire-retardant treatments for wood and cloth, so they'd probably work for this. A web search for "flame retardant" and the name of the ingredient will turn up the specifics. Regards, Joel

To expand a bit on Rod's identification, the plastic double-ender dates back at least to the M1 Garand. The small end with the angled applicator was for Lubriplate grease and the other was for oil, usually PL-Special. As with most skinny military oilers, it was stowed in the butt trap. That...

With respect, sulfur does not produce fouling that is anywhere near as corrosive as chlorine does, whether from chlorate oxidizers in powder or priming compounds or from chloride impurities in potassium nitrate or in the water used in powder manufacture. And some of us have been lucky with guns...

Wouldn't the Italian proofing code give the date the barrel was made? Regards, Joel

Interesting. My experience was different. I'm myopic and astigmatic enough that I live in trifocals 16/7, with a reading magnification of of +2.25. My optometrist and I came to an adjustment +0.75 for the distance portion of my shooting glasses (long-gun), and I see my rifle front sight well...

I have found a suitable funnel for filling through the head. Pull up on the external part of the gate, slip the nozzle of the funnel in to hold the gate open, and pour in the shot. Larger shot (#4 is the largest I've used through it) tends to bridge, so it must be poured somewhat slowly, or...

I don't don't see the necessity. For one thing, that will just make the barrels that much heavier. There are lots of combinations extant, both original and modern, like .40x16ga or .50x12ga, where the exterior diameters are similar and the rifle barrel just has appropriately thicker walls...