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    Muzzle loader shoots from mid 1950's Iowa

    just noticed your age Flinch. You're probably too young to know my relatives as they all moved away from Emmetsburg. We were wondering what happened to Andy's shop. I'm guessing I was in it in the early 70's.
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    Muzzle loader shoots from mid 1950's Iowa

    yes, it was Andy Adams. I was in his shop years ago with my dad. My grandpa was Rouze Spaur who died in 1959. My dad is Basil Jacobson and my uncle is Cyril Armstrong. Don't know if you shot with any of them but if you did I'd like to hear about it. All from Emmetsburg. Thanks, Steve
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    J Dickert barrel

    Sorry I've been gone so long. Getting kids out of HS and into college. I recieved the 50cal muzzle loader and some muzzle loading pistols that my grandfather built from my dad and I've been shooting the heck out of them so I'm getting back into it. Anyway, I've been in contact with my Uncle who...
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    Muzzle loader shoots from mid 1950's Iowa

    I'm just getting back into muzzle loading and my aunt sent me some papers with the results of some shoots from Iowa State Championship Muzzle loading matches and other local matches held around Prairie City in the mid 50s. Lot's of names including my dad, grandpa, uncle and a gun builder from...
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    Made a new hawk today

    Awesome hawk! You using coal or gas? I have some old horseshoe rasps I want to turn into hawks. Good job!
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    forging a barrel

    btw, is all barrel straightening done while the barrel is cold?
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    forging a barrel

    wow, that's quite a machine! thank you so much for posting pictures of it. Any idea as to how one would straighten a barrel who doesn't have access to such a machine. I just want to know that if I start this project that I won't hit any impossible roadblocks. again, thank you, steve
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    forging a barrel

    thank you for all the information. I am not sure what you mean by overhead straightening press. Could you elaborate on the ways the barrels were straightened. the dvd shows how to make the square-twisted reamer. Also, what did you mean you make barrels by hand from bar stock? you get the...
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    forging a barrel

    hello, I bought Jon Laubach's dvd on forging a Flintlock Rifle Barrel and while informative and fun to watch it left me with more questions than answers. If anyone has forged a barrel could you help me out? -it appears as though the skelp was cut tapered to give the breech end more mass but one...
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    J Dickert barrel

    tg, that's what I originally intended to do, make a Dickert rifle around the barrel. Not to fool anyone but just to give the barrel a home again. I am a history freek and don't like to disturb anything of historical value and maybe building a new rifle around it wouldn't be the best idea. On the...
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    J Dickert barrel

    Zonie, I went to the site you posted but it isn't valid. http://http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/forum/index.php#1 I would like to send pictures of the barrel to the site you suggested if you can correct the address. thanks, steve
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    J Dickert barrel

    Zonie, I appreciate your ideas of a trade and such but I am not really after a new rifle. My father and uncle split my grandfather's collection up when he died in '59 and I have access to plenty of guns although none are a flintlock. I am more interested in getting back into making guns (back...
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    J Dickert barrel

    Sean, you are right, I wouldn't want to mess up this barrel but actually I wouldn't have to do much to it. the breech and drum holes are already threaded, the rear sight is intact and there is a dove tail for the front sight. The underlugs holes are already there so no metal would have to be...
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    J Dickert barrel

    thank you for the information. I will send pictures to the website you offered and see what they think. Actually, I recieved the barrel a few years back and saw it was signed and didn't think anything about it until watching Antiques Road Show one time and there was a Dickert rifle on it and I...
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    J Dickert barrel

    No, I don't believe it was bored for the liner. It doesn't look like it's been bored anyway. As far as I know, per my uncle and my dad, my grandfather found an insert that slipped right into the "shot out barrel". It fits snug enough that it will stay in the barrel on it's own when holding the...
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    J Dickert barrel

    Rubincam, I was thinking the same thing. The integrity of the barrel wouldn't be disturbed by building a gun around it. It's already apparently been converted to a percussion rifle. Adding the staples to the bottom would be the biggest modification to it unless the threads aren't usable at the...
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    J Dickert barrel

    thanks fitter, were those barrel staples soldered or peened into those square holes? Were they to hold the barrel into the stock or to hold on the ramrod guide? The guns my grandpa and dad use to make only had half stocks so they had a metal "guide" on the bottom of the barrel until the ramrod...
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    J Dickert barrel

    Zonie, thank you so much for your input. I did know that JD was an early and important gunsmith in American history although I have been having trouble finding pictures of his rifles. Thank you for the lead. Just to clarify, there is one dovetail where the front site would be on top and one on...
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    J Dickert barrel

    Here are some photos of the barrel if I did this right. One shows the metal sleeve that's been resting inside the bore for over 50 years. It's a snug fit but slides in and out easily. The barrel is about an inch in diameter at the breech, around 7/8" in the middle and about 15/16" at the muzzle...
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    J Dickert barrel

    I asked my uncle for a barrel to build a rifle and he gave me one that my grandpa found back in the 50's. He said it was signed but the rifling was shot out and has a sleeve my grandpa was going to sweat in and rebore. Anyway, I found the signature was J Dickert. It is a 43" octagonal swamped...
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