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  1. M

    Longhunter a Conservationist?

    Well, the empirical evidence is that, where the longhunters and the settlers who followed them went, the game disappeared. Also, these guys primarily hunted hides, to a degree that they required pack horses -- several, quite often -- to haul out their skins. I don't have a shred of documentary...
  2. M

    Modified Flintlock

    As many flintlocks as were converted to percussion, as the 19th century wore along, I don't see anything wrong with your re-working of a Siler assembly that wasn't going to function as a flinter, anyhow. Besides, what was an extremely common conversion, originally, is now something of a rarity...
  3. M

    how to make a newer rifle look old

    Dale made an excellent point. Like many builders, I started out browning my barrels and applying various combinations of finishes to achieve an "aged" look. Problem was, the results I took such pride in approximated the look of guns I'd seen in collections or museums, all of which had acquired...
  4. M

    Having seen a few of

    On any gun I build for someone else, I fire a five-shot group at 25 yards, off the bench, using the formula of one grain of powder for each caliber increment (50 grains of powder for a .50 caliber, for instance). I use store-bought balls and patches. All pertinent data (range, powder charge and...
  5. M

    Simon Girty

    Simon Girty is, in my opinion, an even better example than Lew Wetzel, of why we ought not try to apply the standards by which we live today to persons in the past. Many people were willing to regard him as a renegade and a traitor -- not only to his country, but to his race. Problem with that...
  6. M

    Looking for Inletted forends

    The spring shoots are June 10-18, and the fall shoots run from September 9th through the 17th. They always take place from the second through the third weekends of June and September. It invariably rains like a sampler of Noah's Flood at least a couple of days during the June shoots, so come...
  7. M

    Looking for Inletted forends

    If I understand you correctly, you're talking about a forend to fit the underside of an octagon barrel, that doesn't have to mate up to an action (as it would on, say, a Winchester lever gun or Lee-Enfield bolt rifle). If "inexpensive" is an important priority, I would think a chunk of maple no...
  8. M

    Favorite Period Images

    Davy -- Wow! That's one I've never seen before. Wish I'd come across that when I was preparing a presentation on Masonic history a couple of years ago (Crockett, Bowie, Travis, and Santa Anna were all three Freemasons). Who painted it, and when? Mike
  9. M

    Haines Ladies Rifle

    That's curly maple, the "correctest" of the various woods that are appropriate on Pennsylvania longrifles, and the prettiest, in the opinion of most fans of the longrifle. Also perhaps the hardest kind to work with, and the curlier (fancier / more expensive) it is, the more this is so. When it...
  10. M

    Why do some people leave a ML loaded?

    Only during deer season do I leave my flintlock loaded, for the following reasons: 1. My wife and I have no kids, and no kids under the age of ten ever set foot in our house. The kids in question have all been taught to shoot, by me, and wouldn't touch one of my guns without specific...
  11. M

    Bent barrel

    If sending it back to the supplier isn't an option, for whatever reason, I second what Rich said. Install the breechplug into the barrel and the barrel into the stock so the bend is up -- in other words, so the gun shoots somewhat high. If you're using a front sight, install one that's a bit on...
  12. M

    Reenactors

    It's debatable as to whether or not I actually "reenact". The pros at it would say no. I also have nothing whatsoever to do with any get-together larger than the local gun club's trailwalk, held each year in preparation for deer season, to which those of us who hunt in "period" clothing wear our...
  13. M

    need pics of Isaac Haines rifles

    Well, I have the pictures I xeroxed from #78, #80, and #81, with the written descriptions of #78 and #80. #78 and #81 had similar carving at the wrist and the skirt of the rear ramrod pipe, so I took the photocopies of #81 (which showed the carving better than the copies I made of #78) and...
  14. M

    need pics of Isaac Haines rifles

    The only detailed pics I've ever seen of Haines' work were in Volume One of Shumway's "Rifles Of Colonial America". I have a limited number of photocopies of certain pages from that back, but whether they'd be of help to you I'm not sure. I would be happy to mail them to you if you liked. Any...
  15. M

    Need stock making info

    "The Art Of Building The Pennsylvania Longrifle", by Ehrig, Miller, and Dixon, goes into detail about how to stock a rifle from scratch, or use a precarved stock. Its focus is on hand tools, exclusively, but most of us who do this substitute power tools as we see fit. This book is a must for...
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