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    Military Heritage India-made Fusil de Chasse

    For what it's worth I have several friends who like myself are M/L shooters as well as reenactors, while I've been fortunate enough to have obtained all of my custom flintlock rifles and smoothbores at reasonable cost over my many years in the M/L life. However many of my friends a fellow...
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    .62 smoothbore as an all around gun?

    While I don't know what your budget limits are I can tell you that a 20ga. trade gun, fowler, musket, Fusil, call it what you will in a flint lock model will serve you very well as an all around long gun. I've been at this muzzle loading game for 60 some odd years, I've owned, shot, competed...
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    .62 smoothbore as an all around gun?

    But your post still doesn't answer Troy's question, he's not looking for a rifle and probably doesn't care how well your rifles shoot, and another thing, flintlocks are not harder to shoot, by their design they are much less problematic than percussion guns, plus, caps are not aways readily...
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    Which Revolver?

    Here's my 2 cents worth, I'm a long time cowboy action shooter, about half of my CAS shooting has been with cap & ball revolvers and BP cartridge rifles, I've owned 1858 Remington's, 1851 and 1860 open top Colts, my S/A Colt cartridge revolvers are Uberti made. I had an 1851 second gen. Colt...
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    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    I like 3-F in most of my rifles and revolvers, and I like it in moderation in my Fusils, but I don't think I'd go up to 100 gr. of 3-f in my smoothbore. In my above post I mentioned 100 gr. of 2-F under 2 ounces of #5 shot, this load patterns well in both my smoothbores, the 2-F burns slower...
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    Fusil ,,tulle,,fowler

    There were allot of muskets that were made at the Tulle and St. Etienne Armories in France, the most prolific being the Charleville Musket, and the series of light Fusils such as the Fusil de Chasse, Les Fusil de Taite, Fusil Marine Ordinaire, and the Grenadier, also there were the Fusil Fin and...
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    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    I guess we can agree on your points, we just see it differently, I my case I sold the skeet gun to a guy who it fit much better, for me to get a replacement stock made would have cost about a thousand plus dollars and it it would have taken away from the gun original value. Also most period...
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    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    Miroku is well known for making fine guns of all types, it's also been noted that when Miroku copies a period piece they copy it in every detail, in one post on this forum a member stated that he purchased a Miroku reproduction of a period muzzle loader that had a flat spot on the trigger guard...
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    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    Well, since you asked, while it is possible that a gun could be built with some sort of imperfection, I'm reminded of a used Skeet gun that I purchased once, it was so beautiful that I jumped on it before examining it a closely as I should have. My first time out on the Skeet field with it told...
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    French Trade Musket pix - SOON!!!

    Still waiting.
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    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    Actually, for the best accuracy and best hunting velocity in a smoothbore you have to maintain a minimum load pressure if you expect to have consistency in your loads. I have used small powder charges for small game hunting or when I'm woods bumming and just stump shooting and they are ok when...
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    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    In my experience, "face slapping" "cheek bruising" no matter what it's called by individual shooters is a problem for many shooters, usually it's blamed on the gun or the shape of the stock, but it's not usually the gun's fault. There are several reasons why a gun's stock can hurt some ones face...
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    Fusil de chasse a cheek slapper?

    Well mostly they do, but sometimes they get twisted and even the word police screw up, the proper English for the word is Fusee, in French it's Fusil, the word is a corruption of the Italian word Fucile, which doesn't mean "gun", the word (Fusil/Fusee/ or Fucile actually means Flint. In general...
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    Is it possible to achieve a 100m(109yd) accuracy of 24 MOA with the 1842 Springfield musket without patched ball?

    Yes, anything is possible if one has enough time, ammo, and allot of luck.
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    Squirrel load

    Why the corn meal ? I've used corn meal and cream of wheat as fillers when loading BP cartridges with reduced loads to fill the cartridge, I've been at this M/L game for 60 years, but I'm curious as to why one would use cornmeal or any filler in a smoothbore fowler, I usually load using over...
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