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    Jug choking advice

    I have a 16 gauge smoothbore barrel I would like to get jug choked. I would appreciate advice and recommendations from anyone who has a jug choked barrel. Since Coyote Joe has retired, who should I talk to about getting the job done? Thanks for any help.
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    My patterning test with Pillow Ticking Strip shot cups

    I see Eric Krewson was experimenting today also and started a thread so I wanted to add my testing to the mix also. My 20 bore Fowler has a straight cylinder 38" TOW/Colerain barrel and a Jim Chambers Round Face English Lock. I got it late last spring and have just over 300 shots through it...
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    Range Report for my .58 Colerain barreled Hawken

    A friend just finished a "Bridger-style" 1 1/8" Colerain barreled .58 halfstock Hawken for me and I have been very impressed with how well it shoots--this is my first Colerain rifle barrel but will not be my last. I bought the barrel from Track and left it at 36" to get the front sight out...
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    chronographing the 20 bore

    I went to the range this morning and brought my chronograph along because I was curious about the muzzle velocity of my 20 bore smoothbore round ball load. I only fired about a dozen rounds through it, but I thought some of you folks might be curious about the velocities I got. The gun is a 20...
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    The Red Coats are Coming--Long Range Flintlocking

    In honor of the 235th anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride, and the battle's at Concord and Lexington (April 19th, 1775), and because it was a good excuse to get the flintlocks out, my friends and I had a "Red Coat Shoot" today. We put up a couple British-soldier-like targets at 200 and 300 yards...
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    Replacement Hammer for Davis Jaeger Lock?

    I have a "Transitional Rifle" built in 1995 that has the Davis Jaeger lock. The rifle has always shot well and I enjoy it, but the lock has always seemed to prefer flints turned "upside down" and hitting the frizzen quite high (see pics) and flint life is not the greatest. I notice on the...
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    Heavy patch/small ball in a new "old" Getz .50

    A friend built me a rifle this winter with an interesting barrel. It's about a 25 to 30 year old Getz barrel that a man had for years and years but never built a gun with it. My friend acquired it last fall and we put it in a "Lancaster"-style precarve with a Jim Chambers Large Siler lock. I...
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    Original Colt Percussion Revolver ID?

    This belonged to my stepmother's father and no one in the family even knew he had it until after his death a couple years ago. My stepmother is not interested in selling it, but would like to know what model it is, possible age, and we are also looking for a recommendation on where to go for an...
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    Practice in the snow...

    8 or 9" of new snow made the rifle range at my local club pretty this morning, and I had the place to myself. I shot my .54 "transitional" flint to get ready for PA's after Christmas flintlock deer season. I have not shot this rifle much lately and it showed--my first 6 or 8 shots weren't so...
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    Are Percussion caps corrosive?

    I have a full stock Hawken percussion rifle--.54 Getz barrel, L&R lock--that I have only shot targets with. My usual procedure at the range is to wipe the barrel dry with alcohol, fire a couple caps, load up and shoot. If I hunt with this rifle will the same procedure be OK if I don't shoot it...
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    Goodoien Barrel question.

    I have an Ohio Valley/Vincent style half-stock rifle built for me by a friend a few years ago from Track of the Wolf parts. It has a Goodoien .45 barrel and has always shot well, but, to be honest, not as well as well as a couple Getz barreled rifles I have. Working with the Goodoien barrel...
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