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Help Support Muzzle Loading Forum:
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What do you hunt with your traditional muzzleloader?
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Update. I just found out using buckshot is no longer legal in Pa save for two state park drawing type hunts. So my buckshot idea is now...
Yesterday at 3:17 PM
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1st build, Pedersoli Pennsylvania
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I'm with Phil. Sideplates are easy to make. Buy a piece of sheet brass from the hardware store. A piece that's 1/16 thick, and about 3...
Yesterday at 3:13 PM
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Storing flintlocks
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I always do as above, frizzen open, cock all the way forward.
Thursday at 3:31 PM
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How do you cock your lock?
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Interesting question. When at the range, I use my cupped hand and pull back on the cock screw with the hook of my pinky finger. When...
Thursday at 3:29 PM
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How do you cock your lock?
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I do which ever the situation requires…sometimes I even use my off (left) hand.. Hope this helps……..🥴👀🤣
Thursday at 3:28 PM
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India-made flintlocks
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Italian made guns are orders of magnitude farther up the quality ladder than anything coming out of India. There is no comparison here...
Thursday at 3:25 PM
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How did you get hooked?
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I used to see guys at the range I went to, shooting muzzleloaders from time to time. I just decided one day I wanted to try it. I did...
Wednesday at 4:49 PM
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Frizzen Hardening?
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When I bought my flintlock pistol I could not get it to fire consistently due to poor sparking. The first 50 shots were close to half...
Wednesday at 4:41 PM
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Middlesex Village Trading - Any good?
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Hi, I am so sorry folks that you have to debate over the benefits of such crap. I hope Jim Kibler does make a Bess kit and you guys...
Tuesday at 11:32 AM
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Frizzen Hardening?
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Tuesday at 11:28 AM
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Frizzen Hardening?
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I bought this stuff called Cherry Red and tried it on a frizzen from a kit I tried to build. I went by several videos of how to harden...
Tuesday at 11:27 AM
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Tools for my first build
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A good quality Exacto type knife, not some cheap Walmart junk. Nothing makes fine cuts easier than a sharp thin 🔪
Jun 20, 2022
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Middlesex Village Trading - Any good?
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Possibly, but how many of us would truly want to own a firearm made using the techniques and metallurgy of 200 years ago.? Regardless...
Jun 20, 2022
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What do you hunt with your traditional muzzleloader?
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Mainly hunt deer with my flintlocks. Have killed 3 so far with my TVM Lancaster .54 caliber. When I built my .62 caliber smoothbore, I...
Jun 19, 2022
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Middlesex Village Trading - Any good?
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The Made in India stamp would cause me to say hell no. Ever watch one of those videos on YouTube that show these India shops? Not just...
Jun 19, 2022
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