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  1. Clark Badgett

    Colonial fowler from modern Belgian flintlock Take 2

    So “rural gunsmith” is code for bad inletting now?
  2. Clark Badgett

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    I think you are thinking of 2 different things. There is the pour and then the compression. Compressing the powder is not the same as beating on the butt to unsettle powder.
  3. Clark Badgett

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    So you got XRay vision in dirt?
  4. Clark Badgett

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    Still not needed. The long drop down the tube is already going to settle the powder in about as tight as it’s going to get. It fact tapping it will probably loosen it up.
  5. Clark Badgett

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    People do bad stuff out of habit. Like smoking. The guns we shoot in this particular avocation are notoriously weak in the wrist. Bounce it once on an unseen rock in the ground and disaster could happen. And like smoking, it’s wisest to stop doing bad habits.
  6. Clark Badgett

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    Well, I’m not a newbie. Powder goes down and doesn’t cling to soot. If it does just magically defy gravity and cling to soot, ramming the payload home will push it down onto the pile.
  7. Clark Badgett

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    Why would you need to “tap and/or bump” after pouring the powder? Gravity will move the powder to the bottom unless you have shelves and ledges inside your bore.
  8. Clark Badgett

    1728 Charleville TRS Lock Repair

    That’s excellent.
  9. Clark Badgett

    How is this sear toe in your opinion?

    It may have been English, but it wasn’t plain. My immigrant wife’s broken English is more plain English.
  10. Clark Badgett

    How is this sear toe in your opinion?

    Yeah, that part I know, just couldn’t understand what Rudyard wrote
  11. Clark Badgett

    How is this sear toe in your opinion?

    Can you translate please?
  12. Clark Badgett

    Springfield Model of 1822/28

    Oh, OP I forgot an important detail. The M1816 parts were not actually interchangeable. So you need to find parts from the same arsenal and same era to maybe have parts that will fit.
  13. Clark Badgett

    Springfield Model of 1822/28

    You have the parts of the 3rd style of M1816. The M1822 moniker was applied through error of the era when in 1822 when a number of “standard muskets” of the current pattern, intended to be loaned to contractors were made up by the arsenals and were dated 1822. The name stuck, but the musket was...
  14. Clark Badgett

    Springfield maybe?

    Privately made copy. Big surplus dealers of the era were known to do such.
  15. Clark Badgett

    Springfield maybe?

    It’s not an Arsenal lockplate. Yes, it’s most likely a parts gun.
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