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  1. grey8833

    Coning

    To add a middle ground to this thread: I read the patent application by A. Clark, April 24, 1840. He believed a 0 degree crown (dead flat and sharp) to be the best ballistic solution for the exit of a patched projectile. He also recognized the such a muzzle would very likely damage the patch...
  2. grey8833

    Coning

    Coned a Rice barrel last week. Shot dead on yesterday. Love the thumb start. Great instructions Joe (Woods), wish all tools came with such nice directions. Same tool (slightly modified) fixed the no crown 44 cal Japanese wonder I rebuilt - actually shoots nicely now that I don’t have to beat...
  3. grey8833

    Original 18. Century Germanic Jäger Rifle

    I can not believe that the trigger guard is still in one piece! Really really nice gun.
  4. grey8833

    Restoration suggestions

    No expert here, but the rifle has a lot of aspects of a converted flintlock. Patchbox, Butt Plate, Trigger guard, Thimbles and Nose Cap. Plus that butchered side plate screams "I a bad addition" to this gun. Bore is a mess, but looks like it could be rebored. The split stock looks to be a...
  5. grey8833

    slotting barrel tenons

    I have slotted the barrel tabs on all three of my rifles (which all use keys to hold the barrel). Round jewelers file with a tapered nose goes in the drilled hole first (the file sets are cheap and carried in most of the big box hardware stores). Get the tip of the tapered round file in the...
  6. grey8833

    Bought a Flintlock today

    Sorry, at 400 for that quality, it was theft!
  7. grey8833

    Lets see some flintlock pistols!

    This is (was) a Moroko (Japanese) pistol I got back in 1974. My first black powder gun > it was a typical of the time, pretty poorly done. I decided to do an upgrade project on it - I used the lock (after I remade the broken main spring) and purchased a stock blank that I gussied up. The...
  8. grey8833

    I want to move on and experience flintlocks. Any suggestions as to a starter flintlock?

    Started where you are. Jim Bridger Hawken, Colt Walker >> then talked myself into a Chambers York kit. I know they were designed for very different environments, but the York is to the Bridger as a Ferrari is to a Ford 150. Be prepared - and as suggested above, see if you can find someone...
  9. grey8833

    Flash hole liner maintenance

    I put a 1/4-28 flat head slot liner in my Chambers kit. Had to work at it, but I got the liner hole just north of the breach face (barrel had to go to the rear a bit). Pulling the liner makes getting the liner cup dead clean with a q-tip and lets me get the breech plug face dead clean with the...
  10. grey8833

    Flintlock Rifle for plinking for fun

    Sorry, not Killer- Kibler.
  11. grey8833

    Flintlock Rifle for plinking for fun

    I just finished the early York. Did it in the style of George Schroyer. Two piece patch box, plain pre-Rev carving. Still, my third gun. Chambers kits keep the architecture correct, but there is a lot of work to make them pretty. Killer looks more the first gun type of kit, although I have...
  12. grey8833

    Trying to understand this “short arbor” on Uberti revolvers

    Had the eye thing done to my right (dominant) eye two months ago. When asked what forced me to get the surgery done, i responded that I could not see the 100 yard line at the range. Your sight type, small or large, pistol or rifle, don't matter if everything from six inches to six miles is...
  13. grey8833

    How many out there?

    Manufactured and made. Had not thought to check public available mfg numbers.
  14. grey8833

    How many out there?

    I was wondering, having added three to the total myself, does anyone have a good guess as to how many reproduction muzzle loading rifles are out there in the U.S.? That is both Kits and Finished Made, either flintlock or percussion? Not including the pistols or revolvers. Got to be more than...
  15. grey8833

    Trying to understand this “short arbor” on Uberti revolvers

    I don't have the source information, but I recently fixed the short arbor on my Walker. The symptoms I had were: a Wedge that 1) came loose every third shot, 2) was beating the hell out of the barrel frame, and 3) was constantly moving into the barrel frame and was bottoming out on the barrel...
  16. grey8833

    New from TN

    Welcome from Massachusetts!
  17. grey8833

    Help finding a gun case...

    Ditto: Same rifle. Great case. They even called me when I mistakenly ordered Primium Shipping- asked me if I really wanted to do that? Can not say enough good things about this “Made on America” company,
  18. grey8833

    Naming guns; Pet names for them. I had a .45 cal. flintlock back in the mid-1970's...

    Named my latest flint lock build “Plague Rider” Because of all the “at home time“ the CCP Virus gave me to work on it.
  19. grey8833

    I can’t see my sights

    That is just too cool. Windage by twisting off center! Mark the flat on the back for alignment. Sorry if its not historically correct, because it should be! I made my front blade a “ Partridge”.not historical, but the front sight stands out as a black square. Old age requires you get tricky.
  20. grey8833

    First ever high-end kit rifle.

    Remember. Poor typing
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