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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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 .