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    3A Powder?

    Charles Hutton's work from 1783-1791 corroborated Robins's, and Euler used Robins's work as a foundation he expanded upon. J.G. Benton's 1862 textbook backed up Mordecai's research as well. The ingredients weren't noticeably less 'pure' in the 18th century, the difference was that the grain...
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    3A Powder?

    Also A. Mordecai's 1845 Report of Experiment on Gunpowder. Both are cited in the article.
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    3A Powder?

    Benjamin Robins tested the velocity of bullets and wrote the results down in his 1742 book New Principles of Gunnery.
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    powder charge for musket?

    @ugly old guy I don't want to be mean, but your reading (and reading comprehension) is all over the map. '1-2 grains per caliber' was never a rule before the Minie Ball. The rule of thumb then was 1/2 the weight of the projectile, or 1/3rd in the case of cylinder powder. Even in major...
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    Cleaning Rod/Range Rod

    My colleague and I plan on putting 144+ rounds downrange from his Charleville. If I wanted to wipe down the bore every 12 shots or so, what's the best way to do that at minimal cost (this is getting to be a pricey project)?
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    powder charge for musket?

    How wide are those rings, and how many shots can you get with .662 before needing to clean?
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    powder charge for musket?

    Yeah, that's because powder manufacture techniques changed between the French Revolution and the American Civil War. Charcoal made in iron cylinders produced much more powerful powder than the traditional charcoal manufacture techniques the French used. Also, Minie rifles needed to be shot at...
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    3A Powder?

    It was linked; click the word 'this' in the first line. it's the first one in the pdf.
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    3A Powder?

    According to this article, a 1:3 combination of 3A and G12 (FG) powder produces the best muzzle velocities. What's 3A powder? I found a PDF referring to 'A3' powder as a 'special purposes' grade, but if I wanted to replicate this experiment's conditions, where would I get the powder?
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    powder charge for musket?

    Yeah, it's weaker, so if anything you should be using more of it.
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    powder charge for musket?

    From what I've read, the service ball was about 378 gr with 188 gr of powder, which matches that 2:1 ratio I was talking about. 1000 fps is massively underperforming, and it's bad for accuracy, since the BC of the ball starts to rapidly fluctuate when you're in that transsonic zone.
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    Finding flashhole dimensions?

    This is the one I was looking at; the site definitely doesn't tell you not to shoot it. I've heard these are india manufacture guns mostly, for however much that's worth.
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    powder charge for musket?

    In the 18th century, the rule of thumb was about 1/2 the ball weight in powder; the British reduced this to 1/3rd when they developed cylinder powder with better charcoal. Modern powders are actually weaker, since they need to be able to function in a wide variety of guns, and a combination of...
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    Finding flashhole dimensions?

    You don't seem to know what obsolete means; whatever you can do with a flintlock smooth bore, you can do better and cheaper with a more modern weapon. In any case, my interest is historical/antiquarian; I like the Napoleonic Wars, want to test what the weapon is capable of.
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    Finding flashhole dimensions?

    Look, I'm comfortable taking marginally greater risk (black powder is already pretty risky and completely unnecessary, and the seller all but tells you to get your vent hole made so you can shoot), so if you can't answer the question about finding specs for the 1801 musket, I'm not really...
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