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  1. Cruzatte

    Show your Muzzleloading gems.

    I'm surprised I haven't responded to this thread. My fusil de chasse built from TOW parts.
  2. Cruzatte

    Ramrod question...

    The wiping stick for my rifle has a threaded socket on the butt end. The wiping stick for my FdC is just plain wood. For the fusil, I have a separate range rod.
  3. Cruzatte

    Rev War era blanket roll carrier

    Tie it your knapsack. Or roll up all your truck & plunder in it and sling it over your shoulder, the ends tied shut.
  4. Cruzatte

    Pretty patch box!

    My thought exactly. Beautiful work!
  5. Cruzatte

    Flints

    No.
  6. Cruzatte

    Canteens/water bottles

    My study is incomplete. So far, all the references I've seen are military.
  7. Cruzatte

    What would you build?

    Some sort of half stock percussion lock rifle with double set triggers...scratch the double set triggers. Make it a single trigger and build a Leman.
  8. Cruzatte

    Lighting a pipe with flint and steel

    I see the value in posting a yes-it-can-be-done sort of video. As pipe smoker myself, I'd save the charcloth for a situation where I really need it. On a sunny day, as depicted in the video, I'd use a burning lens.
  9. Cruzatte

    Ft. Umpqua

    I miss Oregon.
  10. Cruzatte

    Tell me of your cleaning rituals

    Sounds like a lot of bother to me.
  11. Cruzatte

    Just bought my first flintlock. What do I need to take it out shooting, and what do I need to know to have a safe and enjoyable time.

    No, stick to round ball. IIRC I don't think the rifling twist is optimum for the Minié ball.
  12. Cruzatte

    Historical load?

    After reading this, I think we've nothing to fear from AI. A good story teller could smoke a joint and write better fiction.
  13. Cruzatte

    Just bought my first flintlock. What do I need to take it out shooting, and what do I need to know to have a safe and enjoyable time.

    Yeah, you're probably right.
  14. Cruzatte

    Just bought my first flintlock. What do I need to take it out shooting, and what do I need to know to have a safe and enjoyable time.

    You'll need: Black powder, 2fg granule size to start out with. Some use the finer 3fg. This is where the experimentation comes in with load work up etc. 4fg for priming. Some use whatever they've got in their main horns. That works, too. If you use 4fg to prime, you'll need some sort of a...
  15. Cruzatte

    Original Left Handed flintlock guns?

    I'm aware of one left handed trade gun in Kevin Gladysz's book The French Trade Gun in North America, p. 93. That's one out of how many in the same book? Not very common, I'd agree.
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