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    Original 1858 Shooting.

    I would suggest that the revolver should be loaded with a charge not exceeding about 15-16 grains of 3 Fg, since any more powder will not burn completely in the barrel. A ten grain charge followed by a load of corn meal to fill the cylinder and then the ball should do it just fine. Put a...
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    Chamber diamter

    I have three .36 cal. cap and ball revolvers of Italian makes, two from the 1970' and 1980's, and the third is a CVA kit gun. All of them had cylinder bore diameters less than the barrel groove diameter. I gun smith friend of mine loaned me the reamers to ream them all to .377" diameter, and I...
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    Flintlock pan powder

    Some years ago, I was loading a .62 cal. smoothbore flintlock with 2Fg black powder and noticed as I seated the PBR that, what appeared to be, a lot of smoke was coming out of my vent hole. Of course I had cleaned between shots, so I knew it wasn't burnt powder smoke, but the shots over my...
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    variations in diameter along the bore

    I purchased a Hopkins & Allen underhammer gun at the Jacksonville Gun show last December, and when I cleaned the barrel on returning home, I found a ring in the barrel about 8-9" from the muzzle. I pulled the breech plug and took the barrel to my local gun smith to check it out. It was a ring...
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    rate-of-twist?

    The best rate of twist for a given caliber depends on the caliber and what you want to use it for. An older barrel maker friend of mine says to use 120 time the caliber. There are very few commercial barrel companies that use that rule consistently, except for, perhaps, Numerich Arms Co...
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    looking for info. on doing "Wire inlaying"

    There is a class in Wire Inlay offered by The National Muzzleloading Rifle Association at its Gunsmithing Workshop and Seminar at Western Kentuky University in Bowling Green June 3rd through June 8th, the week before the June or Spring Match at Friendship. The January Muzzle Blast list the...
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    just got a new old shotgun

    There are ways to repair old splits, including forcing some of the new super glues into the crack or using some of the epoxies. If the crack is not growing, you might finding leaving it alone is sufficient. If the crack is in the weak part of the stock, such as at the rear of the tang, you...
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    just got a new old shotgun

    I use 14 gauge wads from Circle Fly or Butler or any of the ones sold by Track of the Wolf, etc. They seem to work fine. As far as diameter, I bought them so many years ago I don't remember the size , but I can probably measure them. They measure about 23/32 (0.71875) of an inch. I hope...
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    Pedersoli SXS Pattern Problem Solved - Thanks!!!

    Paul, This sounds like the similar results you achieved with the three wraps of post-it note paper you used for a shot cup with a 20 ga. felt wad on the bottom to cushion the shot column. If I remember right, your shot tore a welded steel leg off a target stand at either 25 yds or 50 yds...
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    just got a new old shotgun

    I bought a similar 14 gauge shotgun at a gun show many years ago. It has checkering on the forestock and wrist area rather than the carving your pictures show, and no parts box. When the orange colored finished was removed we found a nice piece of walnut underneath. The checkering was...
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    3Fg in a .69 smootbore pistol?

    When you push the patched ball down on the 3Fg powder, watch to see if any "smoke" comes out of the touchhole, indicating that some 3Fg powder is being forced out the hole. Shot to shot velocity may vary if you are losing powder this way, and you may have to fine some 2Fg powder to shoot it...
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