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  1. Freedom

    Wobbeling Hammer

    I tried all the fixes mentioned here and only one works. Use a steel feeler gauge, and with scissors cut some shims that are long enough so that you can push the cock down over them, then trim them off flush. Making them long will give a shoe-horn effect to the shims. If you try to peen the...
  2. Freedom

    Accuracy standard

    https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/april-postal-match-target-celebrates-national-kite-month.178585/ Some more of you folks should attend our monthly shoot, right here on the forum.
  3. Freedom

    March Postal Match Target Ready to Shoot

    Cloudy and wind, this fine day. My hands were getting cold shooting... think I'm about ready for summer. Tried some 2f Diamondback. 55grs burned super dirty. And shot terrible. Upped to 100 grains and it cleaned right up, and seems to shoot just fine. This was a great Target, it appeared as a...
  4. Freedom

    Leading in a smoothbore

    Birchwood Casey Lead Remover Cloth... it works so easy, just a few strokes and lead comes right out.
  5. Freedom

    How much black powder is too much?

    Seems silly that we still debate/parrot the "unburnt powder" nonsense after all the years of testing. I have a 5inch 12bore Derringer. 50gr 3ff gives 550fps...150gr 3f will clear 1000fps..in 5 inches(!). Too much powder for the rifle is when the stock breaks. Too much powder for the shooter is...
  6. Freedom

    Flintlock flinching

    When you are able to see exactly where the front sight is when your rifle fires...you will just feel it, and know where the ball went before the smoke clears. Anytime I can't "call the shot" I know it's because I had both eyes shut and my head out of the way. Flinching seems to run in cycles...
  7. Freedom

    Loading down for a .62 flinter

    I would have no hesitations about shooting 35 grs (or less) in your 62 caliber. Sure you're going to hit low at 100yrds, but for targets and Woods-walks, you might find it does just fine out to 50yards. If your shoulder seems okay with it,....just keep adding powder.
  8. Freedom

    Kibler Rear Sight

    The closer the sights are to the barrel, the faster mirage will begin to distort your sight picture as the barrel heats up. So on a multiple shot woodswalk match, a taller sight will usually give you an "edge". Unless you're trying to split horizontal playing cards. You'll want be as close to...
  9. Freedom

    What's the consensus on Kibler rifles Steel finish?

    I like a deep brown Kibler...polished fire bluing optional.
  10. Freedom

    Ya' never know what's up there.

    We have no deer, so the lions live on elk. (Lion killed right near my cabin, but not by me.) Hard to imagine the carnage left behind After a Lion plays with an elk like a mouse... for hours! Kinnikinnick grows wild near one kill sight. Interesting that the lions ate most of the large...
  11. Freedom

    Fixing buttplate gap

    Your picture shows the plate is low. And maybe needs a little hammer bump to lesson the angle.
  12. Freedom

    Flinching?

    It can make a differences what side the sun is on. We tend to see one side of the sight better than the other if you're not shooting from shade. The other side of the sight being in the shadow makes you crowd windage way or the other. I've also seen Barrel Mirage bend the front sight after a...
  13. Freedom

    “Waterproofing” your lock

    A cows knee won't stop water from running along the barrel channel, and right into the pan.
  14. Freedom

    Starting to look for a flintlock

    Long barrels give good velocity in a 58 Cal. 100gr. 2ffg Eynsford .570rb Kibler Colonial And 110gr will chronograph 1850fps... I've never chronographed really big loads.
  15. Freedom

    “Waterproofing” your lock

    Just use lube... you can just about swim with your rifle rigged this way.
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