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    Just a little better among reproduction Colt 1862s?

    I've always felt that Colt 1862 "police" revolver with 4.5-inch barrel is the most graceful among all revolvers. But I've never owned one. I want to buy one within the next month or so, and I need some assistance, Probable all of the larger Italian manufacturers make pretty good 1862s. Are there...
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    Extract bullet without powder charge

    Sanity! My fear has not just been getting the conical out. Rather how to get it out without inadvertently blowing a hole in something I didn't want to. Why it didn't occur to me to inch my way up the amount of powder to dribble in requires unimaginable unawareness. Many thanks, guys.
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    Extract bullet without powder charge

    Now that I've ordered a conical with top driving band sized for ramrod loading, I've realized that I may need a solution to a problem I hope I'll never have — loading 700 grain bullet without powder charge. The rifle is .72-caliber cap lock with platinum lined musket cap nipple. I use a 4-inch...
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    Montana muzzleloading season, blaze orange, camouflage

    Montana's first muzzleloading season is several months away. When I hunted during general gun season, I have not paid attention to any special blaze orange configuration beyond complying with regulations. My roommate will be big game (whitetail) hunting for the first time. I want her to hunt...
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    Can "they" hear me? Do "they" care?

    Many people use mechanical analog watches. I, for one, have never owned a digital watch. What I had and have on my person were watches that "clicked" between one and eight times per second, which brings me to me query, . . . My hunting area is heavy, dense forest. Shooting range for white tail...
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    Push-through sizer needed for .72-caliber conical

    I've been working on an easier-to-shoot, easier-to-load version of my .72-caliber conical. I've concluded that no variation of that conical will be significantly lighter weight. The only way to make shooting any conical variation is to reduce the powder charge. I can do this because my hunting...
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    Any advantage to use a cross-patch?

    I am just getting started using a patched round ball in my cap lock rifle. My reading of both Ned Roberts' muzzleloading cap lock rifle book and the NMLRA beginners' book have information on round ball rifles using either two patches crossed or a single patch created as a crossed patch appears...
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    Could a round ball about .001 inch less than bore diameter be used?

    Erwan: My writing is obviously unclear, but you have described nearly precisely what I am asking about. The difference is your lubrication holder and stochastic device. Mine query asked about a dry lube that would not clog the stochastic pebbling, and my stochastic roughening would be somewhat...
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    Could a round ball about .001 inch less than bore diameter be used?

    On FLINTLOCK sub-forum I posted a thread for lubricating a round ball to try my years old DOUBLER device. DOUBLER creates stochastic indentations that act on the severe air drag on smooth round balls, the thing that those pock marks in golf balls that add many yards to golf shots until the green...
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    Late English locks

    I'm ferreting out what I refer to as an "extremely late English lock." Pedersoli's Mortimer rifle/shotgun lock appears to fulfill my want. But except for a brief handling of a friend's Mortimer Rifle nearly 20 years ago, I've neither examined nor shot one. Aside from price, does this lock have...
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    Teflon or dry lubed patches for round ball — or unformed cloth

    I seek a source for teflon or dry lubed patches for round ball — or unformed cloth. I think I remember that several years ago teflon coated patches were available. Then I had no interest, so I paid little attention. Now I have a need.
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    WANTED Gunmaker wanted in western Montana

    I am having much trouble uploading photographs as full images only. I think I have the eight I wanted to upload properly inserted, I think there is a duplicate photograph as thumbnail. Since images are uploaded from my computer, I assume that the full-sized image would be unavailable...
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    WANTED Gunmaker wanted in western Montana

    I am left-handed and left eye dominant. Eighteen months ago, I went blind in my left eye. After recovering some sight, I have decided to have a Ferguson flintlock rifle made for my use since I am forced to convert to become a right-handed shooter. If you build rifles, I ask you to consider...
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    Voyage of Discovery — Knowing their location?

    Prior to beginning the Voyage of Discovery, Captain Lewis was trained to use a sextant (with necessary acoutrements) for navigation and map creation. One essential for identifying location was to maintain uniformly accurate time, using chronometer. How did Lewis maintain the accuracy of...
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    Shooting clubs and groups in central west Montana?

    I picked up my rifles from Gene Gordner yesterday afternoon. Here in Seeley Lake, I believe I am the only muzzleloading rifle shooter. The obvious way to find others near me is to ask. Please identify muzzleloading clubs, shooting groups, or individual shooters who live in Missoula County. If...
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    Finally - Treasure Island done correctly

    SamTex: By 1990 reproduction firearms, swords, and clothing were easily acquired. Southbend Replicas and others were manufacturing antique cannon. Hispaniola was built for a 1980s version of "Mutiny on the Bounty," I believe. And Charlton Heston and his son had the ability and desire to...
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    Pedersoli's petite derringers

    So it's reasonable to deduce that the mechanically interesting Liège is useless as a firearm. The Philadelphia derringer might be useful as a true belly gun if it can safely accept a sufficiently stiff powder-ball load? Or can it accept a double ball load - which might metamorphose it to very...
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    Pedersoli's petite derringers

    Pedersoli manufactures two derringers, Philadelphia (near copy of the Lincoln assassination pistol) and Liège. Both pistols are percussion cap lock single shot. Both shoot .452-inch projectiles. The Philadelphia derringer is a muzzleloader. The Liège is a screw barrel "breechloader." Anyone...
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    Pour spout for 1-pound Swiss BP bottles

    I have a substantial amount of plastic one-pound bottles of Swiss [brand] black powder. The pour spout I have for Goex cans does not attach to Swiss bottles. Please identify pour spouts for Swiss bottles. If no one manufactures such a spout and jury-rigged spouts have been created, show me how...
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    Muzzleloading deer and elk seasons

    I just located Montana's regulations on Blaze Orange - 400+ square inches above the waist, no mention of it being solid. So my wool Blaze Orange ghillie suit gets created.
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