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    Anyone using a Caywood english fowler lock?

    I've had one of Danny's fine wilson trade guns for the past 8 or 10 years. He has always been really helpful and always very pleasant to deal with. A real class operation.
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    Flinter main charge not igniting consistently

    please please dont mess with the firearm before trying the real black powder :nono: . I started a thread on here from about a month ago where I was only getting one out of three ignitions in my new flintlock. I tried the real fffg BP and the ignitions are now almost instantanious, with a wad...
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    my thanks go out to you....... From the first round to the last, I was cracking a big ol grin the whole time......Gonna sell the last of the AK collection and pick me up a couple more of these here new fangled smoke poles....Guess I'll have to change my screen name....
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    Paul, thanks for the cleaning advice, I'll make sure to follow it. You guys are batting 1000 in my book. The group was at 75 yards. I'm still trying to figure out the sights a little but am really pleased as the normal deer hunting up here is almost always inside of 100 yards. Thanks again...
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    REAL BLACK POWDER be da BOSSSSSSS..... :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :hatsoff: OK Zoar you can put away the salt and pepper as you will not, I repeat, not be required to consume you hat..... What an amazing transformation. If you go back to my first post and check out...
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    Hang on to your hat my friend. :bow: I am the proud new owner of 3 pounds of FFFG Goex and a couple packs of over the powder wads. Not really the over powder cards I'm used to but they say they will increase accuracy and can be used as over powder under patched ball. Now if we can get rid of...
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    Morning Boys,,,,,got a chuckle out of your post Herb,,,, :v haven't read the neck shooting post but rest assured all I was trying to do was figure out the initial windage and elevation and see if I had a rifle that would group off hand. Those shots were the first 10 or so I had ever fired with...
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    This one is a .54 so I'll go get the Goex FFFG. Could be that the Caywood flash whole is a funnel shaped cone into the smoothbore that I never had this problem with substitutes. No biggie, I'm not so stubborn as I won't change course to the real stuff what with all the concensus. She is...
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    Hi from Sweden

    Hey DOea Aeon.....Yag Kant inta prata svenski oska... Wonderful people, wonderful country..... welcome.
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    Man,,,,I love these forums. :bow: More information available in a moment then in days of reading in the man cave. Thanks for all your advice. Never even thought about the subsititute powder as I've always had a lazy streak in me a mile long when it comes to trying to reduce the cleaning time on...
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    Thanks for the help guys....I've made the dumb mistake on more then one occasion of loading a barrel I forgot to dry patch, only took a couple of times fearfully pulling a oiled wet load to remember always dry the barrel first....... :headslap: As for this, I would hope that if I just remove...
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    Trapper pistol?

    I've owned a brace of the original flintlock trappers for a number of years and have really enjoyed shooting them. It's amazing but with a nice tight clean 50 cal round ball over 35 grains of fffg, I can get better accuracy at 20 yards with the trappers then I can with my S&W ultralight 38 or...
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    flash in the pan 1 out of 3 times

    I've recently purchased my first rifled Flint lock from Track of the Wolf. I've owned a .62 Caywood Wilson Chief's trade gun smoothbore for many years, a couple of percussion shotguns and a couple Trapper flint pistols but this is my first rifled flint. It's a 32" Lemen trade rifle in .54 with a...
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    To Wad or Not To Wad...

    Hey LeMat, thanks for the video's. :thumbsup: Looks like my confusion stems from the fact That I may have been using the wonderlube over powder wads in place of a lube over the end of the cylinder. I was going powder, ball, lubed wad instead of powder, ball, lube as promoted in the videos. Now...
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    Another Newbie Mainer checkin in...

    Thanks guys.....I'm looking forward to hanging out. Already got a great lesson in pistols from one of the members. Jim
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    To Wad or Not To Wad...

    Well in my first day on the MLF I guess I've been paid back in spades for the subscription price. Thanks alot for the advice. I have gotten a few responces like that and can't thank ya'll enough. It's amazing but like a lot of hobbies, this one like many are self taught or all the info comes...
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    To Wad or Not To Wad...

    great photo. I hope I haven't been doing it wrong for the past 10 years. New Army 44. I was taught powder, ball and wonderlubed wad over to avoid chainfire. Am I missing something such as a wad over the powder as well? I've done that for years with smooth bore bird shot but never the pistols...
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    Another Newbie Mainer checkin in...

    Afternoon ,,,,newbie here. Been deer hunting ,somewhat unsuccessfully, with a Wilson Chief's trade gun for the past 3 years but wouldn't have it any other way. When it rains I go Mil surp or handgun hunting, nice weather out comes the trade gun. Not the gun's fault :wink: have had a lot more...
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