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    Buffalo Hunter

    A friend of mine picked up a Zoli Buffalo Hunter for $165. The rifle looked like it had been shot a few times, cleaned and hung on the wall. The trigger pull was horrible 9 or 10 pounds so my friend brought it over to see what I could do. I popped the lock off and saw that it still have the...
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    Old CVA

    This is an old, pre 1975, kit I put together for a friend of mine. He had gotten it from a friend, who got it from someone who got it from someone... Sometime in the past someone had tried to put it together. The inletting looked to be done with a semi-sharp ax. The lock had a broken sear...
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    Old CVA

    A friend of mine gave me an old CVA kit to finish for him. He got it from someone, who got it from someone who got it from...... It had been worked on early on and had been inletted with a sharp hatchet. The buttplate and toeplate had been put on and the nosecap had been hacked in but not...
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    Winter Challenge

    I went to the Wyoming Winter Challenge shoot in Glenrock this weekend. This has been an annual event in Wyoming for over 20 years. It consists of 10 paper targets, three at 25 yards, three at 50 yards, three at 100 yards and one at 200 yards for a total of 510 points. All targets are shot...
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    Unusual Import

    I have a old kit gun imported by Hopkins & Allen. I originally got it twenty odd years ago for my son who was a teenager at the time. I helped him put it together and finish it and he used it for a year or so. He left it with us when he left home. It went through several moves with us and...
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    Silhouette Shoot

    Our monthly club shoot was yesterday. The fellow putting it on always has a silhouette shoot. Our club has two sets of NMLRA silhouettes and about once a year we have a silhouette shoot. The targets are crows at 50 yards, prairie dogs at 100 yards, buffalo at 150 yards, turkeys at 175 yards...
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    Changing patch makes a difference

    I have been shooting .515 balls with .024 canvas patching. The rifle shoots well but I want to go back to shooting .520s because casting balls is a little easier with a double cavity mold. I used to shoot .520 balls with .018 Ox Yoke ticking but started having fliers. I found the Ox Yoke was...
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    Zoli HF Parts

    A friend of mine just got a Zoli Harpers Ferry .58. The gun seems to work alright and goes off well with the right flint. There was some creep in the trigger and I showed him how to get rid of some of it. I did notice that the mainspring felt a little mushy but other than this it looked like...
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    Good Day at the Range

    I have been invited to shoot on a team next month at the Glenrock Winter Challenge. One of the targets is at 200 yards and has to be shot offhand or braced against a tree. Something I have never done. All I have every done is silhouettes or gongs at that range. All you have to do there is...
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    Big Horn Basin Muzzle Loaders

    It is the 21st Anniversary of Big Horn Basin Muzzleloaders (BHBML) established in 1986. In honor of the 21st Anniversary the BHBML are hosting a muzzle loading shoot on September 15th and 16th, 2007 at the Brewster Ranch, between Hyattville and Tensleep, WY. Everyone is welcome. Anyone who...
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    Santa Fe Mainspring

    At the turkey shoot this weekend I had a fun experience. I was shooting my Santa Fe and had just pulled up on the target when I heard a click from the lock. I thought maybe my trigger was acting up and tried to set it again but is was still set. I lined up and touched it off and nothing...
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    Swee'Pea Went to the Range

    I finished Swee'Pea a while back but due to a case of Cranial Rectumites I did not have enough in the touch hole and burnt it out. I got the new touch hole in and had to wait until the weather settled down to take it out and work up a load. Swee'Pea is a .32 with a 36" 3/4" Green Mountain...
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    Touch hole Erosion

    I just finished up my new 32 and put it together Thursday night. When I installed the touch hole liner it looked as if there was not much of a channel left going into the coned portion. I thought that amount of stainless steel should be alright. I fired a few shots offhand to get a feel for...
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    Dodged a Bullet Yesterday

    I'm building a .32 flinter using a Dixie Ashmore lock. Yesterday I was carving the clearance for the hammer. When I tightened the hammer screw on the tumbler, it snapped in two with a good portion stuck in the tumbler. I was not a happy camper. These locks are not made anymore and I had no...
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    Ordered the pea shooter parts

    I have had a Dixie Ashmore lock setting around for twenty years or so and a set trigger about the same age and thought "What a waste should do something with this". I also have a .311 mold I picked up for my wife's .32 about 25 years ago. The rifle died in a fire so the mold has just been...
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    Revoltin' Development

    I had been away from shooting for about six years but have been getting back into it for the last year. I'm not back to where I used to be but slowly getting there. I have been benching all my muzzleloaders. This gives me the confidence to know the rifle is shooting well and all I have to do...
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    KIK Powder

    Going by reports in the forum, I decided to pick up 25 lbs of KIK powder as I was just about to the bottom of my latest batch. I got 23 lbs of FFg, because it was mentioned that if worked the same as FFFg GOEX, and 2 lbs of FFFg. I tried it out in my latest two rifles. The .58 did not seem to...
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    Finished the Hawken

    I finished up the .58 fullstock Hawken flinter. I had the 1" Green Mountain barrel and L&R Large English lock hanging around for about 15 years. I spotted a preshaped, preinletted plain maple second stock on TOW for a good price and jumped on it. I finished it up last Friday. The Hawken...
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    Gain Twist Barrel

    I was out sighting in my latest rifle next to a fella at the range. He was a retired gunsmith. We got to talking about muzzleloaders and he mentioned he had an original Hawkin that he would like to shoot. He said the gun was about a .46 caliber half stock that looked like it had been...
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    Murphy's Maiden Voyage

    I just finished "Murphy" and took it to the range. I named the rifle Murphy because everything that could go wrong when I built it did. I inletted the barrel into the stock and inletted the lock plate 20 years ago. Other projects came up and then a career change and I just packed the...
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