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    Did something dumb

    If you don't have a CO2 ball discharger the easiest way to pull a ball is to put a little cleaning solution or oil down the barrel then screw your ball puller onto a steel range rod then tie a rope to the range rod. Loosly tie the other end of the rope to a tree or the post holding up your deck...
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    Stoopid Hurts!!!!

    I have another way to get hurt casting. When I first started casting I used range lead. The first pot of lead was ok but the second had a primer in it. I was casting using a coleman propane stove, full face shield, gloves and long sleeve shirt. I was back behind the cover of the stove when...
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    Chunk guns

    In an over the log (chunk Gun) match the target is a card with a printed x on it, but, and this is the neat part, you put the x target behind your sighter target. You get to shoot at a target of your choice and put the x target anywhere on the target board, not necessarly behind your sighter...
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    TC Renegade Hunter ?

    I learned to shoot with a Renegade 50 with a regular trigger. The barrel is a 1/48 twist and therefore requires a lighter powder charge than a slow twist barrel. Easy to clean, accurate, and will shoot both a maxiball and a patched round ball. Go have some fun. Pete
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    Chunk guns

    Chunk shooting is when you take your huntin' rifle and shoot it laying down on you stomach. You need know where it shoots in the prevailing conditions, ie. light and wind. The rifle should be a traditional rifle with fixed sights. Some shooters think a special rifle is required to win but...
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    Chunk Gun Project

    Bill, Brookie is correct. A chunk gun is a traditional rifle with fixed sights. You can make anything you want but may I suggest you shoot what ever you have that meets those requirements. Then make a new rifle which solves the problems you found while shooting your other rifle. My biggest...
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    Replicating original percussion nipples

    For the long range rifle you can get a platinum lined nipple from Joe Hepworth who is the owner of J Cunnard Co.(http://www.jcunard.com/). The cost is in excess of $50 each but well worth the money if you have that kind of rifle. Pete
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    L&R replacement locks

    L&R locks are good locks. They are not expensive and the employess of L&R are easy to work with. I have had them repair a lock without asking for proof of purchase. It was a lock I had worked on and one of the springs failed. Like all locks except some of the Chambers locks and Bob Rollers...
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    False Muzzle

    You can compete quite well in the light bench and cross-stick matches without a false muzzle. I do and shoot as well as anyone. I use a goodien offhand barrel, drum and nipple and a manton lock assembled by myself. The advantage of a false muzzle for round ball shooting is you can use a...
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    Source for alcohol-based stains

    I really like Homer's stains. I like a little red in my stocks so I start with the red stain. Then I use the brown until the stock is black. Mrs. Homer told me to take it out in the sunlight to see if I like the color. Inside under artificial light its not possible to see the color. Once...
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    Homer Dangler stain???

    Boonie Both the stains and the browning solution work very well. Mrs. Homer told me to check the color of the stain in real sunlight and to stain the wood very darkly. I like a little red in my stocks so I stain the stock with red stain first them use dark brown until the stock is almost...
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    L&R Manton conversion?? (Flint to percussion)

    The only concern I would have is if the touch hole is off center on the pan. When you screw in a drum and attempt to put the lock in it may not fit. You then have to modify the lock inlet with it's attendatant problems or file the lock plate to fit on the drum. If you file on the lock plate...
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    location of vent liner

    There is some contreversy about this. I believe you should put the vent liner ahead of the breach plug, far enough ahead that you can put all the vent liner threads in the barrel and not in the breach threads. Many rifles have the vent hole at or behind the breach plug. After a few shots the...
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    Perfect 50

    Good Shooting, I'm impressed. Pete
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    Howard Kelly barrel

    Howard is a nice guy, great barrelmaker and fiddle player. He sets up near the bench target shack and Friendship. He had a museum exhibition in the Rand house a few years ago and produced a video of him drilling and rifling a barrel. I shoot cross-sticks and the barrels shoot very well. Pete
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    who builds heavy bench guns?

    There are three types of guns mixed up on this thread. 1) Chunk guns are traditional rifle, fixed open sights, no weight limits shooting patched round ball. 2) Round ball bench guns are adjustable open and any metalic sight (peep sights), no weight limit unless it is a light bench gun (14 or...
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    Planning the rifle on paper/plywood

    I had Willie Bonot (sp) at Friendship breach a barrel for me. He cut some of the threads off and ground the breach plug to match. After I recovered my wits I asked him why. He said it would make the lock bolt go in easier and you really don't need all those threads anyway. He just removed...
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    sawing metal with band saw

    If you are rough cutting plate you can use an old wood blade in you wood saw running at wood speeds. Instead of sawing you burn and brush the molten steel to cut. Push the plate of steel against the blade and it will glow red, push just hard enough to brush the glowing metal away but not to...
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