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[Phil Coffins]

Found out last night that a muzzleloader group was having a swap meet in Fort Collins, lucky for me they don’t spread the news very well. Bought a flintlock pistol project for $50 and 4 pounds of cannon grade black powder for $15 a pound. This should hold me till spring.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Ooh you dawg…you should’ve PMed me…

Now you need to show pictures of your new project.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Here’s the haul. The pistol was started by a fellow that died and the powder was his as well. The curly maple stock maybe just fire wood as the inletting was done with dull tools and the parts weren’t filed and finished before inletting. There’s plenty of wood so I may shape it and re-inlet it before tossing it. The barrel is 40 calibre by Greenriver, lock is Dixie and the brass is useful. Trigger is good too. I started by taking the lock apart to refit and deal with the typical issues. The frizzen spring is grossly over powered so I’ve thinned it and drew the temper a bit. Plenty of work to be done before summer.
9B32A3AE-5048-4804-A7BA-EAE8FED04F7F by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr