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    Blowing down the barrel youtube video

    Ever since 1992 when the NMLRA formally frowned on blowing down a muzzloader's barrel this has been a controversial subject. Because the different opinions are fundamentally based on each person's personal 'values' there will never be agreement. I have put together a video on muzzleloader safety...
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    Real Hawken or not?

    I agree about drum. This needs a really good expert examination.
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    pedersoli trade gun?

    Hope you got your questions answered. I have a 12 gauge Pedersoli Mortimer flinter and love it, cylinder bore, had to have some choke put in it. If available in Australia (Weird gun laws you have there)that might be more 'all around' than a 20 gauge??
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    Stop the presses!!

    Gun mags are like car magazines, if they don't please the manufacturers they don't get ad dollars and they don't stay in business. I haven't read 'Bugle', but I agree about 'FF&G'- a good magazine. My 'American Hunter' usually hits the trash unread, the only exceptions to this are when its...
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    Aperture sights on American longrifles - again

    Another current thread - 'French target rifles' by Dyemaker in this forum is very interesting. It appears to show honest-to-Goodness peep sights on 18th century rifles. Also, apparently 'diopters' (not peeps) with tiny holes were fairly common on 18th century jaeger rifles to sharpen the sight...
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    French Target Rifles

    This is fascinating. Are there other references to French or Spanish peep sights?? Arabs used them, I believe, so there may have been some influence there. Sure shows how little we really know of rifles and peep sights. Has anyone read the book by Blackmore??
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    traditional suppliers

    I tried a 'search', no good, I think I am 'search challenged'. I'd like to buy an 18th century wash basin from a dealer who supports traditional muzzle loading, not some big company. Any suggestions??
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    Very Dangerous Safety Situation...

    Ooops. My Bad. I don't want to be seen as tiresome. My 'mantra' about blowing down the barrel was NOT meant to refer to your situation in any way. I tack it on at the end of nearly all of my submissions but will separate it more clearly in the future. Again, thanks for sharing your...
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    Very Dangerous Safety Situation...

    Thanks for sharing. We stress safety so much, and it becomes so automatic, that we sometimes tend to forget that when we shoot a gun, we are performing a fundamentally dangerous act, same with driving a car. I have (rarely so far) found with dismay when driving that I have done some...
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    Jager

    ------------ Wow, I had no idea that people felt so strongly about jaeger rifles!! OK, I'll add my 2 cents. Shumway has a nice publication on jaeger rifles based on a series of Muzzle Blasts articles. Personally, I feel the Pedersoli sits in that camp very comfortably. I wish the barrel was...
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    Proper hold for a musket

    You can't use 21st century technique on 18th century equipment. Maybe the worst example of that is some of the Prussian military muskets but Bedford style Kentuckys are pretty horrible too. The only 18th century well laid out stocks I am aware of are on jaeger rifles and related transitional...
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    18th century rope

    I'm off soon to my first rendezvous in years. I have got a lot of nylon rope, but somehow that doesn't seem 'right' to use on my Whelan lean to. My question is - Is sisal rope authentic for the 18th century in North America?? (I assume manila rope is). --------- Warning on powder container -...
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    Jager

    FWIW - I just looked at the Sitting Fox K13 kit and it really looks good. "target style" is more iffy. I've tried to find 18th century peep sights, unsuccessfully. Peeps then reputedly were really 'diopters', with very small holes, apparently designed to sharpen the regular open sights. If...
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    were modern style flintlock guns ever pc

    That's a complex question. Exact duplicates? Nah. However ... Barrel length has wandered all over the place during the black powder muzzleloader era. Short barrels, like 24-28 inches long, don't burn adequately powerful powder charges completely. Just shoot a 28 inch long barrel at night, the...
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    Blowing Down Barrel

    Few subjects cause as much controversy as the pro and con of blowing down the barrel. We all know that the NMLRA fobade blowing down the barrel only because it looked scarey to their liability insurance lawyers. I am going to do everything I can to prevent this cancer from spreading to...
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