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At first glance they don't look that terribly thick, but pull a breech plug on one and they look like a cannon barrel. Below is a picture of my SXS's barrels with the plugs removed. My hands are huge, and they are thicker than they look . Also worth noting is that they are bored to 9 gauge...

Do you have an example? My Birmingham built mid 1800's shotgun has barrels way thicker than even new shotguns. I can provide measurements later.

Choke tubes did a whole lot to change the way people look at shotguns. If you look at most shotguns from the early 1900's until the 70's, they are overall thin barrels. Scary thin by todays standards. With fixed choke, you don't need extra material. When choke tubes caught on, barrels needed to...

I am certain. Been there, done that. Do what ever you want, but stop with the whiny victim attitude.

Expecting to swab every single shot in a shotgun is a bad way to go. For special purpose stuff like turkey or deer, fine. There's no way I'm running a swab down my bore after I shot while duck hunting. All I'm going to accomplish is watching flock after flock flare as I waste time. You don't...

Normal kitchen paper towels do not work. Your jag will cut them. Blue shop towels work wonderfully, and they are mainly what I use for swabbing my bore when shooting. They do not work that great for pumping your barrel when cleaning. The reason I don't use T shirt at the range is the simple...

If you would read my post in it's entirety, you would see I'm making an exception for his circumstances. If he were in another country where he could reasonably buy as many as he wanted, you would be right. Unless the guy is rich, there's only so much he can do, and in that case owning both a 54...

I'm not trying to insult you, but quit blowing smoke. Australia is one of the strictest countries in the world. Top 5 for sure, right behind China and North Korea, which are about the only countries which have outright banned no exceptions firearms to a normal person. Now onto something that...

NOT THAT BAD?!:dunno: Good god man, you make Canada sound like a gun owners paradise. I read that, and as far as I'm concerned, Australia has outlawed non-original muzzleloaders.

Red squirrels are basically chipmunks. I've shot them, but I don't think I've ever ate them. Seems like a waste of time to me. I could be wrong. Grey and fox squirrel I have shot with #7.5 and even #8. Very rarely will the shot pass through the meat. Anywhere you hit them, the shot will stop...

Yeah, at $10 a pound, it was worth considering. I never saw it for that price, but I did hear it went cheap when it was discontinued. I did not know APP made that, but it makes sense. That's about how mine looked. You could break it up if you wanted, but with better powders, why would anyone in...

Where would you presume we find nipples with BSF thread? Has it even existed in the last 50 years? My only experience with it was on a very old BSA motorcycle, and after a couple days of calling around and asking, I finally found what I needed in a used bin he had laying around.

A day or two after the closing, I purchased a 25 pound case, which was all I should have spent. More actually, but I already forgot about it. I'm glad I did it. Goex is now gone. I assume here and there still has a pound or 5, but for the most part it is gone either forever, or until it is...

Maple lake knows how to party. Gearhead get together is a must see if you are into any kind of mechanical stuff. Cars/trucks are the big ones, but there's a whole host of tractors, boats, motorcycles, and all kinds of mechanical contraptions to see. Dad and I (mostly dad) got his 1955 Chevy...

No, and to make matters worse, my family is mainly from that Litchfield, Glencoe, Hutch area. Myself, I moved to Brainerd, then Staples for a while. I just looked at the dates, and it appears it happens on the same weekend as gearhead in Maple Lake. That's probably why I've never heard of it...

It's surprising how many muzzleloader shooters there are in Minnesota, especially central and SE. There's even one of the best muzzleloader shops in the country in Elk River, Track of the Wolf, yet there aren't that terribly many events in the state. I grew up in Annandale, moved around most of...

As Feltwad said, all the sources I found showed they were made with a few now obsolete thread pitches. I forget the exact years, but my SXS had proof marks for something like 1855 to 1868. Mine was threaded the now standard 1/4-28 when I bought it. It is very possible, and likely someone later...

The big problem with APP is that it doesn't last. After a year it is chunky. After 2 years, the whole bottle is one big chunk of powder. I suppose a person could spend some time breaking it up every year, or use it all in a year. I'd just get better powder. Pyrodex is better. 777 is better...

If it were me, I'd take it to the bench grinder, and dog ear it so that corner has clearance. I figure it is worth a shot, much easer to do that than replace a lock with something that was never meant for that rifle.

After thinking about it, I should not have been so harsh. I have no business telling anyone what they should or should not use. That said, sometime this winter I'll take the pressure trace II out with some blackpowder. Some of you might be really shocked at the pressures you are making. I'm not...