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I have dealt with Guns International with good results. Have you tried searching the web with whatever pics the seller has provided? That will tell you if the pics were pirated from a valid sale somewhere else.

OP: Do you have any bore pics? Thanks

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I have been updating my wife about all the positive responses to my post. She did the thing like digging her toe in the sand saying "aw shucks - wasn't nothin'". We're married 38 years next month.

My buddy's wife re-organized his reloading bench because she thought it was too cluttered. Nothing was sold or thrown out, but it took him weeks to find everything again. Once again, I'm going to buy my wife flowers for absolutely no reason whatsoever. As my hands lose more and more strength...

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All of this is great info - thanks for all the responses.

Some of them I have already. An all original Model 1884 Trapdoor from 1889, all original Krag from 1901, a 1903A3 from March 1943, an M1A (pseudo M14) and an AR (pseudo M16/M4). I go back and forth on a Garand. My hands are pretty poor and they can be difficult for me to operate. I've had some...

Thanks for the responses. Where I'm going with this is to own an example of a common American military issue longarm for each of our major wars - Revolution, Civil War, Spanish American, etc. Right now I need a Charleville, plus a '61 or '63 Springfield, plus either a '03 Springfield or a 1917...

I went and observed last year for the first time, was going to go this year but spent that weekend at the Sioux Falls gun show instead. Did anyone go? How was it?

From what I have read so far - the 1777's were typically carried by the French Army while the Continental Army used mainly 1763's and 1766's. Do I have that right?

Fifty years ago my Grandpa Dutch gifted me my first ever hunting knife. He had made it himself from a blade off the silage chopper on our dairy farm. Ten minutes later he walked over and told me had changed his mind and wanted it back. In shock, I slowly handed it back - after which he smiled...

Like others here, I have the Brownell's set. The first set was the basic from when I went to gunsmith school in the early 80's. The only bits I broke were from prying with them. (Young and dumb.) Over twenty years ago bought the big set. Since then added the thin blade and torx sets. Have kept...

I really like the brass/wood contrast on that.

In my area of the world haven't seen caps for a "while" - not even the beat-up, half-full, scarred-up tins at a gun show for only $25. Thought briefly about the 209 option but I have a number of unmentionable guns that need those. So, yup. Buffalo Arms has more of my money and a 1000 RWS's are...

First I would try holding the ramrod in a vise and pulling on the rifle. I read somewhere that back in the actual era some shooters would tie a leather thong to the ramrod with the other end anchored to a tree for the same approach. Second I would unscrew the ramrod from the jag and shoot it...

I have two different Lyman 54s, one with the 60 inch twist and one with the 32 inch twist. In both cases .535 projectiles worked better than .530. It sounds like a .535 would never work with an .018 patch in your rifle - but maybe with a .010 or a .015? I'm not saying this would instantly give...

I coached the local 4-H Shooting Sports blackpowder discipline for about ten years. Our state's 4-H rules said we could only use Pyrodex. The guns were either T/C Hawkens or Lyman Great Plains rifles. Once a week from early June through late August. Cleaned by the shooters with Ballistol at the...

I agree with this gentleman. At one time I owned a Ruger unmentionable single action whose bore diameter was .357". I bought it used with it's 6 1/12" barrel very slightly bulged at the halfway point. It was so slight that I did not even realize it until cleaning one day and saw the ring in the...

I agree the best option is to raise the front sight to lower point of impact on a fixed sight percussion revolver. I currently own a couple of specimens on which I need to exactly that. They happen to shoot so high it would be impossible to file a notch deep enough on the hammer. If it were a...