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    Blanks with 3f?

    Thanks for the reassurance gents.
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    Blanks with 3f?

    Any objections to loading musket blanks with 3f? I wont be ramming down the paper. But I was wondering if the finer granulation would leave some sparks left over. I normally load a 100grs of 2f, should I decrease the charge if 3f is used? thanks.
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    A proper mold for a .69 musket?

    Found it. http://www.lodgewood.com/Dixie-Round-Ball-Mold-30-cal--70-cal_p_2393.html
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    A proper mold for a .69 musket?

    I'm somewhat taken aback by the lack of a Lee round ball mold for a .69 musket. I load from the cartridge meaning that my round balls are usually .05-.-06 smaller than the bore itself to allow for the added thickness of the paper. So in the case of .69 Springfield, I cannot find a .65-.66 mold...
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    Exotic projectiles?

    Historically they have been used by the poorer European armies for practice. Several Russian regiments trained with ceramic balls instead of lead. I've personally used modern glass marbles (5/8" bought in bulk for pennies on the dollar) in .69 and .75 cal muskets. They can be rolled into paper...
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    Exotic projectiles?

    Thankee, very interesting.
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    Exotic projectiles?

    Thanks Spence Some confusion may be arising out of our expectation that everything made from lead was a musket projectile. Splitshot (below) sounds like something you would discharge from a musket but its apparently a fishing device (sinker?). Here's a pic...
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    Exotic projectiles?

    I am trying to ascertain which exotic loads were actually used and how. I cannot locate the document that I read a while back but there is some proof that the patriot militia used links of chain during the British retreat to Boston in '75. Whether these were loaded still connected or taken apart...
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    Loading with the frizzen closed?

    I am truly at a loss in figuring out what form of reality you people belong to, likely just the rifle range specie of muzzle loader with a dozen different gimmicks and taking over 2 minutes to load a round. The rammer issue has been addressed by the parks service and the full loading and firing...
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    Pipe tomahawk

    I recently finished staining and bluing Track's Carlos Gove style tomahawk with the drilled hickory handle they also sold. Perfectly solid. Before bluing the ax head, I christened the blade by felling a few smaller trees. Absolutely no concern of anything breaking. The hole is about .22"...
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    Found a use for Beeswax

    I bought the Jas-Townsend wooden-metal banded canteen about a year ago and after continuous use, some of the pitch (wax) began to give way to cracks and the canteen thus began to leak. The site gives a 6-8 mo. life span to these canteens and claims they were in that regard true to the period...
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    Loading with the frizzen closed?

    Yes we transitioned to caplocks and breech loaders. Thats about it. Meaning the link to the past was broken. Nobody here was born in a world where only firelocks existed.
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    Loading with the frizzen closed?

    Besides being a load, cartridge and firearms technique historian I've also covered this bandwagon phenomenon of scare mongering in the civilian field. At times there was absolutely no proof for danger and at others the possibility for something to go wrong was of very small odds...
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    Loading with the frizzen closed?

    This was not consistent. We're talking about an agreed upon manual of arms that all men exercised without whim. Prior to the Peninsular campaign of 1810s, most middle class men smoked pipes (going back 2-300 years). The cigar came from interaction with the Spanish peasants. By which time powder...
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    Loading with the frizzen closed?

    "going off half cocked" that is largely implied as a failure to create sparks on the frizzen.
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    Loading with the frizzen closed?

    "First of all, loading with the frizzen closed is a real safety issue. It is not allowed at any gun club." I shoot with the use of historically faithful paper cartridges using the von Steuben manual of arms which he taught the continentals. It calls for the priming of the pan and closing of...
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    Prussian method of priming

    Klatch it's very interesting you said 5/64s, sent me on a google search. Now I know where to begin. Found this on the Bess vent: http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=3406.10;wap2 Question at hand was: Larger vents = a possible decrease in accuracy and self priming locks and...
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    Prussian method of priming

    Very good points, thank you.
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    Prussian method of priming

    Thank you for that information. Very interesting that they would want to use every trick in the book to their advantage. To my knowledge tap loading was a practice that gained notoriety during the Napoleonic wars, and yes light infantry troops carried powder horns for a while. It is also...
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    Prussian method of priming

    Read a book on Frederick II last year and it contained a pretty decent chapter on small arms of the day. How effective they were (scientific testing, counting hits during volleys etc..) But it also made mention to two Prussian contributions to the musket design. First was that the Prussians...
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