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    SOLD Relisted, .45 Hatfield with flint & Perc locks

    can it be switched to flint my just unscrewing the drum?
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    Rifle to Smoothie

    I got a Traditions 50 "hawken" from a pawn shop for $50, had a ball stuck 2/3 down barrel, pulled ball big rust spot, put 50grit sand paper on a rod and sanded it down. very faint lands left, will shoot PRB still well, but it is a cotton tail killing machine with #6 and 40gr 3f.
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    New England Rifle from a Traditions kit

    I would like to see a pic of the junction on the fore end where the 2 piece stock come together. Is there not a brass shim in there usually? I have a chance to get an old version of that rifle and want the brass out of there too.
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    Premade shot cups/cartridges, how to.

    Can we get a picture of the double chamber thing please that is just what I am looking for
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    WANTED flintlock long gun, project

    looking for a flintlock long gun, rifle or smooth bore. mostly functional and most of the parts there, going to refinish the barrel, lock and stock, bore shootable please but will look at a trashed bore to make it a smooth bore. no safe queen. I have done this to 2 percussion rifles one stayed a...
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    Flint, Steel & Tinderbox.

    I see "high Carbon "steel for strikers will 1084 work?
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    Anyone ever use a modern barrel for a smoothbore?

    I was just looking at a single shot 20ga i have and thought of the sleeve thing, a portion of barrel is a good thought.
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    54 smoothbore final bore size?

    Ok I am thinking of doing the same thing, where are you getting a reamer, and a long shaft to get all the way to the bottom? is this a hand reamer job or can I use a variable speed drill. Oh I am very excited about this project.
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    Actual trade guns in settler's hands?

    I have somewhere in a box an American Rifleman, with a small article on an english style fowler in the Smithsonian that is documented to have been on the bridge at Concord. that still gives me goose bumps. :thumbsup:
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    Your muzzleloader activity in 2006 ??

    Stripped the modern blue and varnish off my T/C Hawkin and browned the barrel, hand rubbed linseed oil into the stock, looking for a new rear sight now. Built a new knife dug out the 62 cal fowler I started two years ago and got back to work on it.
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    Cooking Coffee

    I worked for a mule packer outfit in the Sierra. and did it two ways. boil the coffee in the pot, when ready (can a fork standup in it) then dump a cup of cold water in that will drive the grounds to the bottom. You can also drop an egg in the pot that will consolidate the grounds/ No matter...
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    anyone in southwest MO

    I will look into that vidio/
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    anyone in southwest MO

    springfield/ozark are you close? What kind of guns have you built? So far all I have done is refinish my T/C Hawkins, I browned the barrel and striped and refinished the stock. Came out nice! I have a Track of the Wolf fowler kit and am about to get started on putting it together. Looks like...
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    anyone in southwest MO

    anyone in southwest MO that can guide me in the building of a flint fowler?
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