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    Buck & Ball Loads

    It was always my understanding that the buck and ball load was primarily for the military, which is just trying to hurt people, rather than for effectively killing an animal.
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    Wads, Wads, Wads

    If you can avoid the stinging it might be fun with the hornets
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    Period Correct Machining

    Thanks for the replies. I will check the website and the book. It would be a bear to hone the casting out without being able to bore it first.
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    Buck & Ball load

    I tried a buck and ball load at some paper targets a couple years back. I was shooting a 1795 Springfield replica. 90 grains FFg. 25 yards. I got a pattern about 18" between the three points, ant the big hole was always in the circle of three smaller holes. I only did about five shots like this.
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    Period Correct Machining

    A question here. I have looked online and found no difinitive answers. I remember seeing a sketch from about the late 1700s of some people machining a cannon barrel. Does anyone have information on machinery and cutting tools used when making these old guns. Being a machinist myself, I am...
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    Match cord?

    I know Gordon's stump remover is saltpeter. Give it a good rinse with tapwater, then let it dissolve in water. I bought some bullets for a balance so I have found that about two 71 grain bullets weight to about one pint of water makes a fairly fast slow match. For the rope I picked up some...
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    handgonne material

    Are you sure you are talking about the rockwell scale for 1018? This confused me because I have tested 1018 and it came to a -10 on the rockwell "c" scale. I am not finding fault with your numbers, just the scale used to measure them.
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    My introduction to this place

    here, because I like this site for info and the people seem great, I have added my avatar. This is actually a photo of me in my war of 1812 garb in a bayonet charge. It is from a fort in my hometown called Fort Madison. There is a website out there somewhere. I was involved for many years...
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    Sharpening Flints

    When I do this I prefer to think of myself not as a mountain man but as a soldier in a firing line trying to get his weapon working again to stay alive. Those bloody-backs can be awful mean. as far as tools for heat of the moment knapping go, I carry an old square nail with my pick and whisk...
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    Aiming a mortar

    it sounds like you have a pretty good idea of what to make. Shouldn,t need to be too precise though, the thing with mortars is just to get close, shrapnel takes care of the rest :thumbsup:
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    Cannon Fuse

    have you tried making quills? Just take a small straw, or feather, some double sided tape and some very fine powder. Coat tape with powder, slit straws down the one side lengthwise and insert tape. Make sure there is enough sticking out both ends for ignition. The straw blows out after each...
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    Aiming a mortar

    the best suggestion I have is fairly complicated. It involves physics and trigonometry. but if you find out how much force a known volume of powder provides, the firing angle of the gun, and the weight of the projectile, the shots should be faily consistent given an immobile base.
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    My introduction to this place

    thanks again all.
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    Making a cannon

    I am making one now and I used a large chunk of steel from my place that had been laying around for the past 20 years. It is a huge chunk of chrome vanadium and it is a bear to machine. The chrome will be nice for corrosion resistance, and the vanadium is a wonderful grain stabilizer. The...
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    My introduction to this place

    Greetings All, Just thought I would introduce myself in her, seems to be the appropriate place to do so. I have been utilizing flintlocks since the age of 16, when I began reenacting the War of 1812. It seems now I am almost 29, I am a toolmakers apprentice working in Southeast IA. My...
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