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This is an awesome picture! Got the cylinder gap flash, and the bullet hasn't yet reached the muzzle.

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I tried denatured alcohol as part of my cleaning process after seeing so many of you guys mention it. That's when I discovered that a pistol of mine was finished with shellac. I pushed an alcohol-wet patch into the muzzle, some squeezed out and trickled down the side. The finish instantly...

Haven't tried it, but jojoba oil is supposed to be the closest thing to whale oil we've got.

Ordinary lithium complex high-temperature disc brake wheel bearing grease that I bought at NAPA 35 years ago (I'm almost out of it), or newer calcium sulfonate based marine boat trailer wheel bearing grease.

I'm sorry, I don't.

Until Halloween, there is a very good exhibit on "The Long Rifle In Virginia" at the William King Museum of Art in Abingdon, Virginia. I was surprised at the large bores and heavy barrels many of them have. They're late 1700s-early 1800s, mostly early in that range...

Here it is. Says "Sale Pending." Trade Rifle in the style of Henry E. Leman, .54 caliber, 33" GRRW barrel, Ron Long percussion lock, curly maple, brass trim, used, by Green River Rifle Works, Roosevelt, Utah - Track of the Wolf

Oops, sorry, Tom. I meant to type TOW, Track Of the Wolf.

And for muskets, a long gun has a longer reach with a bayonet.

A long barreled gun is handy for a tall man to load while standing up straight. A short one makes you hunker over, and it's easier to accidentally point at yourself.

Go really quick over to TVM's site. Last week they were advertising a used .54 caliber Leman replica by Green River Rifle Works. Those were really nice rifles, back in the mid '70s.

Flint, I did. And if you read around a bit, you'll find that commercial BLO today is not boiled. Yes, artisans do still kettle boil linseed oil, but BLO in the paint store is raw linseed oil with driers added. Nowadays the driers are cobalt soaps or naphthenates, since the lead driers have been...

BLO is raw linseed oil with Japan dryer added. It's not really boiled. You can add more, of course.

Shortly after I posted I saw an ad on TOW for a used .54 caliber Leman style rifle by Green River Rifle Works. That's one of the ones I drooled over back in the '70s. I'm not in the market at the moment, though.

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Wet the wood surface with mineral spirits, turpentine, volatile stuff. Sand the wet wood. The sanding dust will mix with the liquid and work into the pores, filling them.

The thing about BP being "hotter" than the less smoke stuff isn't due to the temperature of deflagration. That is much higher with the less-smoke stuff. But the products of that stuff are gases, which even though very hot don't contain as much heat energy as the 55% of black powder that ends up...

Stuff like this drove the Packard people crazy when they were licensed to build the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines in WWII.