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    Is This A Rifle--Or A Smooth Bore?

    Thanks for reply, Mike. Seems you have much more experience with these barrels than I have! All I could do was quote the late W Keith Neal. Are the Getz barrels light as well?...say as light as his other birding-piece barrels? If so, might make an interesting build!....
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    Blue Jean patchin' had holes blown in it.

    Frank, If you still have problems with holes in patches,try dipping patches in melted deer tallow. Even with heavy charges, won't burn through. Use nothing else myself. Also found Sam Fadala's trick of using a little wad of wasps nest below patched ball works in anything! This I always use in...
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    Is This A Rifle--Or A Smooth Bore?

    These straight -rifled fowling pieces were quite popular in the last half of the 18th century, so it seems. Believe W.Kieth Neal had one, A Griffin I think, otherwise it may have been a Twigg. He said (in 'Great British Gunmakers, 1740 - 1790') That they had a brief period of popularity, but as...
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    Petronel

    Thank you for info! Quite a few books repeat the same thing, That a petronel was braced against the chest for firing. I do remember one auther challenging this, a sentiment I share, on the point of not been able to use the peep/tunnel sights when gun is held this way. seems to be a bit of...
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    .62cal final hunting load

    Hi Roundball. Am thrilled you're getting such good groups with your smooth-bore! .....Cheaper too than using piles of 2F! I must try some 3F in my matchlock,.........and my "Griffin 16-bore when I get it finished. Though both have longer, light fowling-piece type barrels, so prolly wo'nt group...
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    new to flinting

    Right on Musketman, V. sound advice. I wondered what it'd be like hunting with a flintlock, so used one for about 9 years straight. Found 'em to be totally reliable in all weather, from wet, foggy and cold, (30-odd below) to hot & dry. Nothing wrong with a flint-gun, But it took Me a bit of...
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    gun building videos

    I'm sure you'd get a mighty kick out of Hershel House building a southern rifle!!!! It's available from American Pioneer Videos. (vol 1 & 2) Peter Alexander is very thorough, measuring everything so precisely, where Hershel just grabs his hachsaw and lets rip! ...Doesn't measure hardly...
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    Petronel

    Re. the 'point and shoot' way of firing a prtronel, Quite a lot if not all had quite good sights, usually a tube rear and blade or bead front. the only time I can see any use for the shape of the butt-stock,is if a person were riding a horse, with the flat of the stock on the thigh, with barrel...
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    Matchlock Lock Drawing

    Souds like things are 'Falling' into place!!! look forward to your project updates! Pukka.
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    Do patches freeze to balls and affect accuracy?

    Only time I've had patch glue to the ball, was when I dipped my patches in melted deer tallow, squeesed 'em out, and whilst still warm and damp, put them and balls into loading block. They stuck like glue, and gun shot wild. Found some wads right at my 50 yd target. as long as lubed patches have...
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    Andrias Albecht rifle completed

    Now that looks a very fine rifle!!! ...Very 'handleable',...the sort that you must pick up! looks like it must be very comfortable to shoot. Congrats!! Pukka.
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    olde tyme smoothe bore accuracy

    I have read of native Indians spending quite a bit of time and ammo, getting the trade-guns to shoot where they were looking, carefully bending the barrels between forked tree branches. Once they were shooting to centre, I suppose they were set, and that was it. I suppose this type of...
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    basic match Questions

    The rest went out when lighter 'calivers' again took over from the big, heavy, (up to 20-odd pounds) musket.....rests not issued with the lighter arms. Read somewhere that small tins of tinder were carried lit and smoulering, with which to light the match. In the English civil war, the...
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    Leather vs Lead Flint Wraps & Warranty

    Plus the fact that Col. P. Hawker who probably fired more sporting shots through his flintlocks than any of us has had hot dinners, always reccomended leather, as he stated; "Lead strains the jaws of the cock...." also, when The gun collection of Wm Constable (1721-1791) came on the...
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    Dark enough for ya?

    A Lovely Gun!! You appear to have put a lot of thought into the architecture,.......sort of a subtle "drawing out" of the German lines, into the beginning of the Longrifle. Wood colour looks fine to me! Congratulations on such fine work!! PB.
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