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    Wood Maggots

    It kind of favors the tight grain of persimmon like what is used in choice golf club wood heads. Or possibly sapele, a first cousin to mahogany.
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    Need to bend my barrel.........

    When I first shot my M1795 it shot eight inches low consistantly. The stock had been replaced with an M1812 stock so I wondered if it had been used as a club at some engagement. When I was alone at the range I walked over to the bulletin board and found a spot where I could place the barrel in...
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    Yay..........or Nay?

    I'd rather see a real white flint arrow head inlaid half-way into the stock and pointing to the front.
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    Great Website For Supplies

    No Kiddin' - Love the hackles !
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    Patch lubes

    BIL and I were the first in Atlanta in the '60's to use fuel injection in gokart racing and we used Bakers brand food grade castor oil (purchased by the gallon can) for lubricant and yes, there was still clean oil in the exhaust after hours of screaming rpm's burning alcohol/nitro methane mix.
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    Homemade cleaner recipes

    These two negate each other. Alkaline (soap) is what kills the acidic etching residue brom BP. I like the Windex idea specially if it's the Windex with ammonia (high alkalinity). But NEVER mix ammonia with Clorox or it makes phosgene gas and will kill your lungs and you instantly. Water with...
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    TVM Early Lancaster - first firing

    Surely there must be SOMETHING wrong with it that you can tinker on ! Perfect is so boring. Maybe test it to see if the grouping is better with your mouth open or closed - paint the front sight with camo vs black - loosen the butt plate screws and re-tighten to seat them in properly. Damn...
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    Pyrodex RS ?'s

    Note to the chemically impaired like me: Soaps are alkaline and negate the acid in the bore. I use an extra squirt of dish soap in a quart bottle of warm water and shake it good before pouring down the barrel. Water alone may wash out the salts but it won't neutralize them like soap will.
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    Mystery pistol

    I'm suspicious of the arc welded front sight blade. Can't be THAT old..........
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    Zeroing in . . .

    It keeps me off the streets ! I need to sell a guitar or fiddle to finance a 28 ga. kit for my next project. I was going to buy a flint lock for the old M1795 and bring it more toward original but Tinslade's last page in his fowler book said to leave it in it's current stage of progression as...
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    Zeroing in . . .

    61 degrees today so buzzed up to the range with my M1795 to work up a good target load with the new .678 shot. I wanted to try shooting patchless first so I started out with 40gn Goex FF, OP card, .678 ball and just a thick card over the ball. All shots at 35 yards and offhand. One load of one...
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    Supplies needed?

    And don't forget the extra six or eight cabins on site for the rest of us. Get busy. Call when you're ready to send the jet around to pick us up.
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    Historical Sights Question

    ....unless your barrel was manufactured in 1795 or 1832. There's a bunch of authentic traditionals. Some posted here every week.
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    My butt gets wet

    How 'bout a couple of large nitrite gloves ?
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    Historical Sights Question

    How many times have we watched the old timers in the movies lick their thumb and then wipe off the front sight before they take that long shot ? Could it be that the shiny effect was what they were looking for ?
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