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    New from Mississippi

    Welcome from Tupelo.
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    How to "slug" a barrel for an P-1837 Brunswick Rifle ?

    I modified a Lee 12Ga. slug mold for mine. It seems to do OK. I remade the hollow base part so there is no key slot, thus making it produce something akin to a Pritchet bullet or a Foster slug. I then cut two slots in the sides 180 deg. apart for the rifling grooves. The Russians and...
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    Greetings and Salutations from Mississippi

    PM me and we'll get together sometime.
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    Greetings and Salutations from Mississippi

    Welcome from North Mississippi. If you live near Tupelo, we can get together and shoot some.
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    kings mountain rifles

    There would have been no Ferguson rifles at King's Mountain. They had all been retired by then. All of the 100 or so British Loyalist with rifles at the battle would have been issued P1776 rifles, if they didn't provide their own. Ref: DeWitt Baily "British Military Flintlock Rifles"
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    2f vs 3f

    Historicly, at the time of the AWI it worked like this: There was basically two powders coarse (1F) and fine (2f). The coarse was used for cannons and the finer grain for muskets. When rifles began to be used more by the military, experiments showed that a more finely ground powder worked...
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