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    Vent liners as original equipment

    Thank you very much Mr. Kettenburg. I had never noticed the liner on RCA I/43. As you alluded, on a 230 year old rifle, even on in very nice condition, it is very hard to impossible to prove that the liner was not installed when the rifle was c. 20 years old. I buy your physical evidence, and...
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    Vent liners as original equipment

    Speaking of late period (1815-1830) American flint rifles, were vent liners ever fairly common as original equipment on new made rifles? I am of the opinion (and I hold it strongly), that vent liners, to the extent that they were used at all on colonial period American guns, were more likely...
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    Source for pure lead Buckshot

    Does anybody have a source for pure lead buckshot. The Hornady buckshot that TOTW sells as "pure lead" is anything but. It is hardened with 5% antimony. I want to use try using OOO buckshot in a .36 rifle, but cannot find a source. I am convinced that I could buy buck shot in that calibre...
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    Swamped to straight barrels

    I know that swamped barrels are most appropriate for Rev. War and earlier rifles. I also understand that straight barrels are more appropriate for golden age rifles (1820's)(am I wrong?). What were the middle transitional years for barrel profile (by when had most new (original) barrels...
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    Paper cartridges in Bess (or any other smoothbore)

    RussB, It is strong enough. I have rolled several hundred, contained cartridges; ball and buck & ball, both English and french style (once I got my technique down, I came to prefer the tied English style) and never had my paper tear. I use it for .75 and .62 paper cartridges. The dimensions...
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    Paper cartridges in Bess (or any other smoothbore)

    RussB, I use plain brown wrapping type paper that can be found in 15' x 30" rolls at craft stores. Bear with me because I am not a paper expert, but I will try to explain...actually I will go get a roll and tell you what it is. OK...I use brown or white 'craft wrap' by Paper Reflections...
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    Paper cartridges in Bess (or any other smoothbore)

    Do you folks who shoot live (with ball or non-blank) paper cartridges lube the front, or ball containing part of the cartridge. Seems that too much lube would soak into the paper and ruin the powder, and that too little, or no lube would lead to a bore that would be unloadable due to fouling in...
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    Buck & Ball

    I would try No. 4 Buckshot (about .25 calibre). Three pellets seem to be the slightest bit too large to fit on top of a ball in a .62 calibre smoothbore. I tie paper buck & ball cartridges. You want your buck to sit 'neatly' or flat on top of the ball. I would suggest making a small paper...
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    Flintlock question #2: priming powder

    The spring loaded priming flask is a hard (not authentic) accoutrement to set aside. I have primed with FFFFg, because I was taught to, and FFFg and FFg to see how it would work. I could not tell the difference. But I do know that priming from the horn is a mess, and priming from the cute...
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    FFFFg in a Bess?

    anything over 15 to 20 grains would be a NO to me, particularly over a ball. BP produced by a given manufacturer (eg. GOEX) will have a given (ambient environmental factors being equal) burn rate that will be the same (be it Fg or FFFFg). However the surface to volume ratio changes are not...
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    Vent

    54 Ball, Go with the drilled vent (5/64 if you are thinking of a larger bore gun) with a slight outside cone. I consider a vent liner to be 'functionally never' correct for an original American longrifle. High end European guns are another matter as Robin alluded to. Consider the vent liner...
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    This looks like a good place....

    ...to learn a few things. May even have a little to offer. I have loved the firelock (irrationally so) since I was a wee chap. Many of you folks seem similarly afflicted. Right now, my love is for the weapons (longrifle, smoothbore, or pistol; martial or civilian). I have not yet...
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