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    Old Caps-Are these corrosive?

    Back in the late 70s Dixie had Italian made number 11 caps in their catalog at a very low price (this was before HAZMAT fees). I remember the catalog saying they were corrosive but so was black powder. I bought quite a few and still have a couple of tins, although the tins are plastic. They...
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    Battlefield Pickup Flint

    Here are some photos of my flint that my father found almost fifty years ago.
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    Battlefield Pickup Flint

    My father found a flint while weeding in our yard in Bergen County NJ back in the sixties. Since I was into rock collecting at the time he gave it to me and I still have it. It's a small pistol size light color French flint. I will try to dig it out and take a picture. The New York metro area...
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    Building percussion lock 12 gauge

    Back in 1983 Muzzle Blasts had a several part series about this very subject with quite a bit of detail. If you are a NMLRA member every back issue is available online after you log in as a member on their website.
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    Small and light percussion styles

    My idea of the perfect light Rifle would look something like this, although it is at the maximum weight. The rifle is a New England style target rifle by N.G Whitmore and the photo is from Phil Sharp's book The Rifle in America published in about 1940.
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    Small and light percussion styles

    The best recent example of a light and stylish muzzle loader were the TC Seneca and Cherokee rifles which seem to be loved by those who own them. I have owned and shot a Cherokee for 39 years now and I wouldn't trade it for any other rifle. Strangle though despite the devotion from their...
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    When I got home I completely disassembled the gun for cleaning and thought to take a picture of the collected parts.
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    I again went to range with my Buggy Rifle. Here are 12 shots at fifty yards shooting a 65 grain .350 ball with 20 grains GEOX 3f and a flannel patch. The three shots to the right were the first three. After a slight adjustment to the right the rest were more centered.
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    I took my Buggy Rifle out to my rifle range again today. This time however I had the correct .350 round ball. Shooting with a light patch and 15 grains of powder. My first shots were about 18 inches low at 50 yards. Since the homemade front sight was purposely made too high, I also brought a...
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    I took my little Buggy Rifle out to the range for the first time even though I need to get the correct ball mold. I thought that the 100 grain round nose bullets I cast for the 380 ACP might work. Numrich .36 cal muzzle loader barrels are tight and my guess is that except for the slow twist they...
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    The stock was made from 1/4 cold rolled rod. It was shaped by heating to a red hot heat and hammered into forms made from hardwood scrap from old pallets. The reinforcing center piece makes the stock remarkably rigid despite having been made from 1/4" rod. It too was brazed. The idea for the...
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    My design was derived but not copied from one that was shown in the Wolfe publications book Gunsmithing Tips and Projects. The frame is a composite made from a section of barrel, a 3/8 flat steel plate and several steel bits and pieces that are bolted, pinned and brazed together.
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    I was originally going to use a pin or screw to hold it in, but there is enough of a taper that it stays on by itself. Removing it just takes a wack with the rubber handle of a screwdriver. Making the wire stock was easier than I thought. Filing a rectangular hole through the solid frame took...
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    Underhammer Buggy Rifle

    Here are some photos of an unfinished Buggy Rifle that Have been working on way too long. The barrel started as a .36 cal piece of barrel from Numrich. Other than the nipple and a few screws, everything else was hacksawed and filed from pieces of scrap I had .
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