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    some hunter

    I was hunting over flat ground with little cover except for some hedges and long dry grass ,when about 150 yards away I spotted a small herd of last years fawns and does ,as they were at the corner of a hedge I decided to try and get closer by creeping along in the long dry grass , so doing the...
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    Ball Stuck

    A might help suggestion after seeing lots of attempts on the range , to get out stuck balls I had a bit of a thinkand came to the conclosion that driving a screw into an already stuck ball would perhaps wedge the ball even tighter so I made a couple of gizmos that fitted on to the end of my...
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    rifling

    Paul , I have run the numbers over my internal ballistics programme and I would need to be shooting a projectile a bit over 1.5 inches long at around 1100 fps to need a 1in 16 twist however I want to use a 1inch long projectile ,so the figures come out at 1 in 25 inches , but since I have...
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    rifling

    Paul , thanks for the heads up ,I had another look at my calcs and see that I quoted the work I had done on a .45 cal barrel for a friend :shake: , a one in 35 inch twist would have seriously made me seem a right idiot :redface: and the 35 number was fixed in my head , just glad I am still...
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    rifling

    Hi , I am currently making a ml rifle and am now in the proccess of rifling the barrel the rifling pattern I have chosen is the same (as near as I can make it )as Harry Popes design.. I have figured that it is best suited to a flat based conical and the projetile I have chosen will be 1inch...
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    hunting method

    hi, as a hunter I have stdied the habits of the deer in my area ,where they bed down , what they eat at any one time and water locations this gives me a map of the most likley spots to find a deer so stalking is what I find to be most rewarding ... If I am hunting in thick cover I like to hunt...
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    touch hole is dangerous?

    I can vouch for the tattoo statement sat cross legged while shooting my underhammer ,still got the marks on my calf muscle :(
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    Anti-seize

    Hi , recently had to take the breech plug out of a cheap spanish gun 3 turns and I could move it no further so I decided it may as well go back in and it could stay in the condition it was but one and a half turns back in and it wouldn't go any further back in , now what to do , couldn't...
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    Expectation for off hand accuracy with a Flintlock

    Hi , offhand is more of a mental challenge than most shooters and think that holding the rifle dead still is the hard part , but just nobody can hold their gun dead still .. getting your mind around that and getting good coaching and lots of practice with good technique makes things a lot...
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    rifle primmers instead of perc caps

    thanks guess i should have been more aware so I will add that info to my personal data .Kiwi2
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    ballbag

    Hi guys , I don't know if this is allowed or not but a friend of mine shot a big feral billy goat took the appropiate part from said goat emptied the contents cured the remaining skin and it really makes an authentic ball bag no shaping required ... kiwi2
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    rifle primmers instead of perc caps

    Hi Minnesota , I have always thought caps were dear that's why I have shot flint for so long but I am in a bit of a bind getting flints :idunno: now that's how I got to where we are now .. Kiwi2
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    rifle primmers instead of perc caps

    good question------- but ,I have been shooting flint for a long time , well since 1970 , and decided that I would like to try a modern gun , so perc is about as modern as you can get :grin: ,also have to import flints from the US , have you got a good source which don't cost an arm and a leg...
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    rifle primmers instead of perc caps

    ooooops , that should read $2.00 per liter, there are 2.5 liters per gallon , sooooo that's $10.00 per gallon . that's still makes it a lot to pay for a tin of caps added to the $100 if I could afford to buy ten tins when I got there .. Kiwi2
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    rifle primmers instead of perc caps

    Hi guys bulk buy works out to $10 per tin but I have to drive more than 200 miles one way , and with petrol at more than $200 per gallon that isn't good , Buy local and it is $17.50 a tin ,probably why I prefer flint ,my last flinter usually let me have 100 shots on one edge now that's economy...
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    rifle primmers instead of perc caps

    I am building a percussion rifle and the price of no 11 caps is just over the top where I live :( , so I wondered about using rifle primers instead ,figure they would work , but how to hold them on the nipple , also guess a different type of nipple would be needed .. It must have been done...
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    Rifling Bench

    Hi wulf , I hear you good , but I am now retired and money is a commodity that I have little of anymore , time well , I got plenty of that .. On the other hand where I live in New Zealand there are no muzzle loading suppliers nearly everything has to be imported so making everything from...
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    Rifling Bench

    Hi hope I don't cause any heart attacks ...... but I have just completed the 5th generation of rifling benches the first was like the one in the picture all wood , now the last is very different , all steel using a sine bar to generate the twist that I want .. I presently have a 34 inch tube of...
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    swabing improperly between shots

    Hi , when shooting targets I use a spit patch and after firing I always load then run a patch down the bore onto the ball and back out again , never had a blocked nipple or flash hole from powder residue or water/oil doing this , and the barrel is always in a once fired condition according to...
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    New guy

    Ilive down under in New Zealand and have been interested in firearms since an early age , but only got into muzzle loaders recently ,about 1950 .. Being a bit of a slow learner it has taken me a while to get to where I am now, that is , rifle a barrel , so I need all they help I can get , and...
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