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    Springfield '63

    Allow me to add to the confusion. During the “war between the states”, all of the long guns used fall into four categories. They are Muskets, Rifles, Rifled muskets, Rifle-muskets and carbines. You can read about these differences in Robert M. Reilly’s book United States Military small arms...
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    Colt 1851 question

    IMO, most of the reproductions inherently have too large of a cylinder/barrel gap and I think this contributes to the overly resulting fouling and jamming. How big is your gap? I fit mine to .004 to.006. Large gaps can also cause chain firing. I had a Colt Navy that had a .016 gap and after...
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    Assembling a Walker

    Here is good easy to make tool that you can keep in your "Walker shooting box". Somewhat like the idea Tallship suggested. Find a small cheep pair of pliers. Take them apart and grind out the teeth on a bench grinder. put them back together and slide a piece 3/8 rubber gas line over each of the...
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    how smooth??

    I have an Armi-sport repo 1842 that I took a fine grit 12Ga shootgun hone to. I kind of like to think that it helps to keep the barrel a little cleaner. The smoother the bore the harder for foweling to stick to it, I think, may be? If nothing else, it will impress the hell out of your friends at...
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    Shooting old guns

    I am a member of the N-SSA and shoot a lot of civil war firearms, several of which are original. I do own some guns that have just become to valuable to shoot, although I still shoot them now and then. The ones that I do shoot a lot needed work when I got them and thus have much less collector...
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    1847 Colt Walker

    I'm new here, but Colts are my favorite. I picked up an Uberti Walker from Cimarron a few years ago and love it. It didn't shoot to bad right out of the box. But I can't leave anything alone, so I sized the chambers, fitted the cylinder pin to the barrel, raised the front sight, re-cut the...
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