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    Problem with Coned barrel

    we have made some tests on barrels where we deliberately cut crowns & cones of center they generally seem to scatter and high seed photo's indicate that the tipping action is not constant, However sometimes it is and the gun will shoot into one quadrant of the target also bullets very...
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    Problem with Coned barrel

    Crowning a barrel can certainly make life a lot easier fore muzzle loading and helps protect muzzle damage to most guns but if its not done properly then its a very quick way of ruining a good barrel. If you cant do it correctly in a lathe using the bore as a reference point then best to leave...
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    whitworth rifle

    I bow to the superior knowledge of De W Bailey on such things as production numbers, there where of course other guns that sometimes used Whitworth hex barrels such as the Westerley Richards monkey tail in both combustible and metallic version. We do on occasion still cut Whitworth barrels...
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    English-style percussion locks?

    Well if your looking fore a really good English Lock and prepared to pay 600 why not buy the real thing there's plenty over here, most real gunsmiths have got some,and action houses frequently have them.
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    Flint Life

    I think we have all rather stray into the most insignificant part of the original forum, my sole intention is to help those who are quite obviously having problems shooting there flintlocks and it is quite evident that some of these shooters are going it alone and the last thing we need is fore...
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    Flint Life

    I wood say you have pretty much hit it on the head there, Not concerned about mine freezing ether after there cut. Thanks
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    Ketland & Co. Blunderbuss

    I'v been drulleing over your pictures again, that stain just in front of the back barrel key you could probably get rid of that with some oxalic acid but keep it well away from the metal especially the brass dont forget it is poison
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    Ketland & Co. Blunderbuss

    Very nice Gun Better than mine and earlier with that beautiful shell carving behind the barrel tang some envy is creeping here, anyway know I'v stopped druelling It probably had a sling fitting where that extra screw is there normally taken off so they sit better against the wall when displayed...
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    Flint Life

    500years is not what I said, We talking million of years soaking other than that I pretty much agree with most of what you said. It was about 1968 when I spent my day with the Flint nappers who's family had been napping flints well over a hundred years they could even make link chains out of...
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    Flint Life

    You should have been here in the sixties I am not suggesting you need worry at all even if your shooting polar bears.Hope you enjoyed your stay Bentwaters or Mildenhall ?
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    Flint Life

    first let me say I am talking about English Black flint which lays under chalk normally below the water table fore millions of years (nothing is solid )now when you bring it the surface and leave it in bad frost it develops small cracks sometimes it completely splits (okay prove it )take a...
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    whitworth rifle

    There where about a thousand Whitworth rifles made and a few carbines the survival rate is very good fore whitworths but any one is still worth haveing Whitworth was given the job of designing a rifle because he made a good job of standardizing screw threads, the strange thing about a whitworth...
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    Ketland & Co. Blunderbuss

    Hi unfortunately your pictures are no longer present I would like to have seen them sounds a nice gun. I to have a very similar one by Ketland. Very few blunderbuss are military and haveing anything other than a straight stock would be unusual on a English blunderbuss, sounds like the lock...
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    Flintlock question

    No offence taken, Unfortunately im old enough to have talked to the old flint nappers at Brandon who taught me to cut and nap flints and they never cut gun flints or the rings they made for fun from surface flint,500 years a mear speck in time iv got a rifle nearly that old how about 5 million...
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    Flint Life

    Well I'v stirred up a small hornets nest with frizzen springs So let try flint life (those annoying brits are back).Based on English black flint Brandon Suffolk, Military figures for the period. A bad flint or pore setting or lock geometry 0shots A good flint 10 to 12 shots A really good...
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    Hello from sunny Suffolk England

    About 14 miles away very nice place you'll need abou 4million pounds if you want to move back.
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    bulging in barrel

    You can tap or roll the bulges down and those parts will be stronger than thay where before this would be nothing compared to what a hammer forged barrel goes through.The main reason fore blow upps is air between powder and bullet causing detonation instead of controlled burn. Having said that...
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    Frizzen springs

    Well if it works dont fix it. But I would examine the lock plate where the hammer Brest stops if you have not got enough resistance then steel hitting steel something has to give ,cock will break at step or plate will bevel pushing cock over to one side braking tumbler at square. In England we...
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    Frizzen springs

    Frizzen springs are just as important as your main spring, yes the lock might. spark without one but these dull sparks will only dimly light the country side.What we really want is lots of white hot sparks in the pan. So how do we test the spring ?,Well first you need to know how to set the...
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    need some Kasenit

    Im afraid Kasenit have been out of business for some time English health & safety I expect if you have car boot sales over there keep your eyes open ill have some to another good product gone.
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