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  1. tenngun

    I want one

    Listen to audible books in my car. Having an old Dirk Pitt novel. Pitts a marine engineer who in every novel makes an outstanding Discovery, saves the world, kills the bad guys and gets the girl. An American James Bond with Indian Jones thrown in. In this novel he gets information from a...
  2. tenngun

    Hawken

    What’s a gun makers time worth? How close is it to an original? I can’t answer that. Guys that are Hawken guys can see details I can’t. Things are worth the price they bring, But I sure couldn’t justify spending that much on it. But would sure oh and ah over it if someone was showing it off
  3. tenngun

    ADDING SOLDER TO LEAD FOR ROUND BALL CASTING

    If you load a round ball in patch in a rifle then pull it out a look close at the ball you can see faint impressions of the cloth in the ball itself. You want soft as possible to hold the ball and rifeling together. Hard ball often won’t shoot as well and on cooling can be a tad bigger, so you...
  4. tenngun

    How Deadly is a Flintlock Rifle…

    True, historically, but myth plays apart of our lives. Doing events we run in to all sorts of ignorance about everything eighteenth century Not long ago I saw a you tube video that described cap and ball revolver as almost harmless shooting just a lead pea that could bounce off thick clothing
  5. tenngun

    Help - What is this French Percussion Shotgun?

    I don’t know much about French arms but they were master shotgun builders, as that was most of their civilian guns. If you google fusils today you will get French shotgun firms The NRA museum at Bass Pro in Springfield Mo has or had Napoleons shotgun
  6. tenngun

    Doglock questions

    I shot a string of fifteen cartridges in my dog lock. It took me five min and twenty one seconds, about twenty two sencond a load However that dog made me feel a whole lot safer dropping charges down a primed gun
  7. tenngun

    Question About Lighting

    Two light sources on opposite angles Big window near where I’m working too.
  8. tenngun

    Favorite caliber to shoot

    They are all fun, but my favorite is my TFC
  9. tenngun

    Short Barrel Rifles verses Long Barrel Rifles test. Details Below...

    I really have fun watching your vids Mark Like always this is a good one I like long barrels, but the few FPS you pick up with the extra inches just won’t make any differnce down range for round ball
  10. tenngun

    Proofing charges of original Matchlock barrels

    I’m not going to try it. Howsomever I would wonder that as the powder began to burning expanding gas wouldn’t push most out before ignition Just as a matter of thinking. I plug my touch hole on my .62 and it holds near a cup of water. My .76 holds about two cups. Two cups of water is a pint, per...
  11. tenngun

    Olde thyme photos

    Some ner’do wells in Houston Tavern Arrowrock mo
  12. tenngun

    browning

    I never used a sweat box. My first cold brown took almost three weeks in a dry environment
  13. tenngun

    Making a hunting sword from a machete

    Don’t know anything about metal work. But I have a couple of El Cheapo Pakistani and Indian made knifes from Crazy Crow. Easty to sharpen but hold an edge well and work as ‘better’ American made knifes in similar styles
  14. tenngun

    Blackfoot Warrior Photo

    It’s a reed stemmed pipe, you just don’t see the bowl well
  15. tenngun

    Red Mapel

    Read an article back in the 70s about kit building. One could get a kit, that all one had to do was sand and finish. To kits that one had to do final fitting. And at last kits for the experienced builder, twenty pounds of pig iron and maple seeds
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