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Light charge with a fairly loose fitting bullet thickly patched. Even with careful loading this is a 10 foot range shooter. Mine bucks mightily in the hand and has a very mushy lock. The copy you have and I have is of an English manufactured pistol issued to enlisted men of the Highland...

I have not seen that catalog of course but I suspect that the pistol you mention may have been a Victorian "costume pistol" rather than an 18th c. Highland pistol. When the UK went wild over the previously despised and feared Highlander back in the 1820s, various makers rushed to turn out all...

Scottish pistols from very early times did have stocks made of walnut and Brazilwood. Some smiths later used rosewood but on a limited basis. The all-metal pistol was made during the same time frame and in the late 17th c. the manufacture of pistols with wooden stocks appears to have ended. I...

I agree with your statement regarding accuracy but completely disagree with the one about the throwing of pistols. How that got started I am not certain, although many years ago Muzzle Loader printed an article stating that Highlanders threw their pistols at their opponents after firing them...

Save your money and buy a custom made Hawken from somebody like TOW. A modified TC Hawken is just that and you will spend more time and money trying to make it look like the genuine article than it will ever be worth. On top of that, any knowledgeable person who looks at it will know instantly...

I would look for another range. There is no reason to carry a keg of powder to the range but I have been to a lot of ranges and matches where everyone had a couple of pounds of powder with them. You have to keep the cans capped when the line is hot, of course, but common sense and a little care...

There are 7000 grains in a pound of powder. Doing the math, if you used 100 grains per shot, including priming, you can get 70 rounds out of a pound and about 17.5 shots from a quarter pound. The answer is you need to take more than a quarter pound for 100 grain charges but if you reduce your...

Wow...didn't know you had those. Neat. I always thought they were some of the better constructed Confederate revolvers. Looks like I was right.

Depleted uranium is nothing to mess with. It was used in 20 and 30mm cannon shells during the Gulf and Iraq wars and made some of our guys sick. It is a very efficient armor penetration round but a bio hazard for sure.

Thanks for the photos. I would say that this gun was produced by Mr. Hooker, using a Bill Large barrel. As noted above, Mr. Hooker was not an expert gun builder and your gun was obviously not built by an expert. All that being said, it undoubtedly has an excellent barrel on it and should shoot...

Marshall Hooker is well-known in muzzle loading circles. He was an author who wrote a notable work on muzzle loading firearms. The title is "Born Out of Season" and it covers a wide range of subjects relating to the sport and specifically Hookers days covering the same ground the old timers...

Take Dan's advice and leave the barrel alone. It is a piece of history and putting it in a modern-made stock with a modern-made lock and running the risk of destroying it is wrong. I know that in the early days of 20th c. muzzle loading, guys did that but then these things were more plentiful...

The supply of surplus weaponry is diminishing rapidly due, in part, to some import bans but mostly because most of the sources for these firearms have been tapped out. C & R licenses, in some areas, are not so easy to obtain since local law enforcement has to endorse your application. For me it...

Would love to be there with you but have to go to Scotland County for the Highland Games there. This is our last Highland Games sales season so next year I am putting you guys on the schedule.

Triple 7 may burn cleaner than Pyrodex but in my experience - helping a young friend sight in his rifle - it still fouls badly and you need to wipe the barrel regularly.

Don't know what magazine you are referring to but Muzzleloader, since being bought by a new company, has put out full color photos throughout the magazine, printed on glossy paper.

BTW, they were available in the 70s when the first rifles shipped. I have one of the Farmingdale rifles but no mould.

I have operated a small business for nearly 14.5 years which I am selling as of 11/01. In all that time I have never failed to get an order out within 24 hours when the item was in stock, have always kept track of back ordered items and made sure they went out when received from my supplier. I...

Have you contacted Shiloh?

In answer to what Claude said, I believe there is a genuine problem with TRS customer service. They sell, or purport to sell, things that are simply not available elsewhere, admit that they don't keep those many items in stock all the time and yet they have a problem filling orders as if this is...