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Thanks but I called them yesterday and they couldn't help. But I did find what I needed. I was looking for the wrong screw. I needed a Weaver type screw.

Thanks to Clint Meier for mentioning Weaver style. Scope rings and mounts use the same type screw. I ordered some #8-40 screws from Amazon that will arrive tomorrow. I'm confident they are the correct screws. I was going the wrong direction looking for M4 screws.

I'm going to try that. I was thinking the same.

Tried Ace-they didn't have it. Thanks though, Ace usually comes through.

Thanks!

Italian made smooth bore 44 cal percussion rifle. Think it's from the 60's.

I'm having a hard time finding a screw like this. I only need one. I'm almost positive it's a M4 thread. I can get about five full turns in smoothly in my thread checker but then it starts binding. Probably dirty threads. Do you know if this is some kind of unique screw? It holds the brass ram...

Powder, cornmeal, ball, bang. Sounds delicious!

Smooth rifle it is!

I'm excited to claim victory! Grenadier1758 thank you and all of you others who offered suggestions. Grenadier1758, the chisel pointed rod did it. 5/16" steel rod ground evenly to have a centered chisel point worked great. I did the 1/4 turn and light smack with hammer all the way around a...

I poured about 7 litres of boiling water down the barrel yesterday. Let it run out the nipple hole. Got some black stuff out. Blew air through nipple hole and shot another chunk of patch/wad out the barrel. Still no movement of the shot. I'm going to make a steel rod with chisel tip such as...

Concoction is soaking in the breech. How long? Hours or days?

YIKES!

UPDATE: The grease gun technique produced a result...a blob of what looked like a semi-hard ball of rusted something resembling wadded up cloth. After quite some time of cleaning, blowing and swabbing I ran the camera down the barrel again. At the breech there is a glob of something resembling a...

Thank you for that clarification! Thank you very much. That all sounds like good info. I hadn't realized so much about the contents of a load could be ad hoc like that.

It's a smooth bore barrel.

I'm brand new to the black powder community and looking for a better understanding of ball sizing. My 44 CAL rifle muzzle measures .438. 44 CAL balls I've seen online measure either .433 or .457, depending on brand. By the time a patch is added both will be larger than the bore. I don't want to...

Already done that...6MM new nipples . Got same 6MM grease zerks too.