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    • Don Steele
      JoAnn’s website says the Drill cloth cannot be shipped. Seems odd, but that’s what I saw when I tried to order it directly after...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele reacted to Flint62Smoothie's post in the thread Tip Curtis Rifles with Like Like.
      I'm glad that @olskool has posted Tip's target, as I was just going to! Not that I didn't know it already, but when I had visited him...
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      Don Steele reacted to EC121's post in the thread MINIMUM LOAD with Like Like.
      Get an air rifle.
    • Don Steele
      Pushing fouling onto the breech face or into the ignition chamber (patent breech) of a rifle is usually caused by using a jag/ wiping...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele replied to the thread Favorite caliber to shoot.
      Favorite caliber to shoot..?? 40, NO question.
    • Don Steele
      Hawken and Hawkenesque rifles are good shooters, handle well and fit most average size shooters. The shorter barrel (compared to a...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele reacted to bldtrailer's post in the thread Flints with Like Like.
      you can make your own come to Kempton gun makers fair I will have gun flint demos
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      Don Steele reacted to Commodore Swab's post in the thread Flints with Like Like.
      Messing with the toe you can make a frizzen pop up at first contact or make full contact all the way. It's crucial that the toe work...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele replied to the thread Flints.
      Excellent points. Polishing the foot of the frizzen and the face of the frizzen spring without removing metal is as far as I go on mine...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele reacted to Commodore Swab's post in the thread Flints with Like Like.
      The other key factor is how the toe of the frizzen engages the spring. Much can be done tweaking this and much can be screwed up VERY...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele replied to the thread Flints.
      As prices for flints have risen so dramatically in recent years, I explored options to simply knapping off bits as needed in an effort...
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      Don Steele reacted to deerstalkert's post in the thread Flints with Like Like.
      Jim Kibler has a good video of sharpening flint. 3 shots is unacceptable. i am on shot 73 with one flint in my SMR. geometry makes a...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele reacted to david_1's post in the thread Flints with Like Like.
      As they get used and shorter, I'll either double leather them or a small stick behind the flint to push the flint forward and get that...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele reacted to Larry Pletcher's post in the thread Touch Hole Cleaning with Like Like.
      I drill my vents so that a pipe cleaner will work. I like a #51 which is .067 inch. #52 is .063". Numbered bits are available in most...
    • Don Steele
      Don Steele reacted to waksupi's post in the thread Touch hole liner conundrum with Like Like.
      It will be best to remove and replace. Vents are cheap.
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