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  1. DaveC

    Need parts for Pedersoli Charleville Mle. 1763/66! Help!

    Take my money! Please! VTI has the factory cock, but not the mainspring...
  2. DaveC

    Need parts for Pedersoli Charleville Mle. 1763/66! Help!

    The mainspring on a Pedersoli-mfr. Charleville Model 1763/66 flint lock is broken/ snapped. The lock has had a bad battery/steel/"frizzen" replaced. The cock was replaced with a swan-neck by a previous owner, and it doesn't fit right, and in short, needs a factory replacement. No one seems to...
  3. DaveC

    Rocks are more reliable than caps

    They are not. You may "see it time and again" but I've certainly not. Admittedly, I started on caplocks before I got into flintlocks, but in my admittedly limited and personal experience, no way are flintlocks "so much more reliable" than caplocks. History appears to agree with me...
  4. DaveC

    New From Texas

    Howdy and welcome and "bienvenidos" from San Antonio de Bexar! :horseback::)
  5. DaveC

    I am Having a Scottish Musket Made

    Yes. Scots or Scottish. "The kilt" is plural of kilt too.
  6. DaveC

    how did the long hunters clean there guns,,,,,,,,,,,

    The absolute ultra-best in firearm preservative during the age of the American longrifle and later Hawken was spermaceti oil from Yankee whalers. Recommended by U.S. Ordnance of the era. Short of that, animal fats would serve, but in extreme cold are not that good. Tow and tow worms, and bits...
  7. DaveC

    TC Crocket question

    .310 ball +25gr FFFg+ 0.010" cut-at-muzzle Schoultz-method 1:7 dried ballistol patching gave good results for my Miroku/DGW flintlock TM
  8. DaveC

    1842 Springfield

    The U.S. Ordnance tested buck and ball loads with the three .310 buckshot on top of the .650 or .662 round ball and beneath it. It was found that the lead round ball was more accurate under the buckshot, but that the buckshot gave a somewhat tighter pattern if placed underneath the ball. After...
  9. DaveC

    1842 Springfield

    I've got an 1851 rifled and sighted Model 1842, with the barrel relined to .687" so I can shoot .685" Minié/Burton bullets. I also have a spare smooth-bore barrel for .670" round balls. The issue round ball was .65, so .670 is a tight fit. The state of North Carolina issued out some...
  10. DaveC

    Embers left in the barrel after a shot?

    As others have stated: Leave the hammer down on a just fired cap. That way there is little to no air circulating through the cone or the vent into the chamber. The smouldering embers or fouling will soon exhaust the oxygen in the barrel, and thus minimize any danger. The flint lock is put on...
  11. DaveC

    PISTOLS OF THE GOOD LORD BIRD

    Big: One of the Colt Dragoons or Walker type .44 revolvers, maybe? Purportedly one of John Brown's Sharps rifles: https://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=636 In addition to the Christian Sharps rifles--aka. "Beecher's Bibles" shipped to Kansas, there were...
  12. DaveC

    Pillow Ticking

    Thanks for the thread! Uh-oh, a thread on threads in patching.... My patch and ball combo has been way too tight on my .32, and I've also not found any appropriate thickness patching. Appreciate it!
  13. DaveC

    What's a good deer rifle for a small statue woman?

    Lyman Deerstalker .50
  14. DaveC

    Gourd canteen

    I had a couple bottle gourds from an in-law's garden that were not cured properly. The first one broke when I was rattling around small stones to try to get at the dried pulp/ innards. Too brittle. The second one I just swirled the interior with a couple melted bars of beeswax and poured out...
  15. DaveC

    Flint maintenance

    Huh. My lock does that "automatically" albeit without the parallel edge or "refreshing" the edge, unfortunately! :doh::oops:;)
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