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    Cleaning swabs

    My wife is a quilter. The batting she uses is 90%cotton and 10% poly. She saves the remnants for me and they work very well as barrel cleaning patches ONLY. It is easy to tear the material apart and I use a worn brass brush as a jag. I have never experienced any problems with particles of the...
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    Pedersoli Lock

    So. I dropped the lock from my Pedersoli 50cal Blue Ridge (Hatfield?) .flinter and the mainspring with assorted parts popped off. I was thinking about an expensive mainspring vise or visegrips. However, the spring can be replaced if you partially assemble the whole mechanism, insert the tenon on...
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    Sear Spring Help

    I have an old caplock from a rifle sold many years ago by Cabellas and which, I am advised, is no longer available. The sear spring is destroyed. I have fabricated springs from wrapping metal and other material but, after about 10 shots they weaken and the rifle is useless. Does anyone have...
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    Sear Spring

    The sear spring on my elderly 45 Tenn Long Rifle would become so weak after a few shots that the hammer would not lock at half or full cock. I cold formed a new spring from a piece of strapping tape like that used to wrap cardboard boxes around refrigerators etc. The material cut easily with a...
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    Targets

    Make a "splatter" type target by covering one side of a piece of brightly colored posterboard with clear package wrapping tape and spray painting the tape with a contrasting color. When hit by a bullet the posterboard color shows through.
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    Hello from California

    I'm in Tehachapi CA, 70 years old, retired, and a confirmed black powder shooter. Single shot muzzleloaders are my weapons of choice.
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