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  1. M

    Pedersoli Bess breech plug removal

    Not to sure i would, as it won't line up well after you tighten it again. It will tend to want to go past where it is now. I would make a breech face scraper first and make sure the breech face is really clean. The way I make these is to use a TC worm, that is broken, and saw out the wire that...
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    frizzen spring adjustment...?

    Well, I sure have no problems with paulvallandigham's methods, other than he and I have no idea of the expertise of the owner. A great deal of these workings call for a certain amount of Judgement. That comes from time and working with these devices. For sure someone into the modern idea of...
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    Suing The Turkeys At TOTW

    This post is to ALL. I don't know how to reply to ALL. I read this whole thread useless trash as it is, it sure is funny :haha: One point, in quenching you only need the face of the striker that hot, so you could hold the steel with tongs and just quench the face and sides a bit for that...
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    Got Myself A Cannon Pattern!

    My Brown Bess Clone from Japan 76' vintage shoots a 0.735 round ball which Lyman makes a twin mold for. I use 0.012 patching. I have a bigger gun that looks like yours but bigger 1700 pattern common to Europe probably Spanish used by the French, more wedding bands though, and it's bore IS NOT 1...
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    frizzen spring adjustment...?

    If this is a new gun, just oil the frizzen screw and move the frizzen open and closed 500 times. Unless you are good at putting metal back on don't take any off. If you are good, you can file and polish the feather spring 'evenly' on the top where the frizzen rides and also narrow the side of...
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    Gap between lock and barrel

    I am not sure what you mean. The boiled linseed oil is good for the wood near the lock mortice, and pretty much adhears to the wood, so it is possible to pull the barrel pins and the barrel and leave the gasket intact. In the past years since I have shot flintlocks, like since 1972, no gasket...
  7. M

    Made my first knife

    Most impressive, and very nice lines, which comes from a critcal eye. I am new here so I can say nearly anything too! I can't wait to see a next one. Mac
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    What Do You Think?

    Runnball. I mis-spoke. I was thnking with a copper head 'soldering iron' that if i were to do this job my self, and used a forge to heat the copper headed iron I would want the powder keg at some distance from the forge. So maybe in bright day light I might heat the copper 'iron' to a dull red...
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    Gap between lock and barrel

    I agree make sure nothing is in the way, ie ,, wood slivers, old finish, loose screw, or something. Then with boiled inseed oil in hand, cut a section of brown paper bag and soak it good with oil. Set a piece too wide and too long in the barrel mortice, from the breech block mortice to past the...
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    What Do You Think?

    to ALL: Interesting topic. I have no idea how you would solder a lead barrel like container with POWDER in it, but it might have been done just the same. More or less in the day the soldering was done with a forge heated soldering iron made of a copper head sometimes weighing over 5 pounds. A...
  11. M

    Baker rifle ramrod thread pitch

    What is 7/32" BSF? I know what 7/32 is, but BSF? Not British Standard F???? is it? Some how I just know when the answer comes I am going to really feel stupid..LOL mac
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    Brown Bess

    I agree with Va.Manuf.06 , that this is a 1st model long land pattern lock, and not the early type, not banana shape. I have never seen one of these with the ram rod as shown. I would guess that came at a later date. I see the thimble has come away from the wood as you have shown it. My best...
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    Brown Bess

    fallaloosa, That may be, but I have never seen one that didn't have a wooden rod that had been seen by myself, and more importantly others who know better than me. Still thought of as original. Most any 1st long land patterns, appear to have suffered the ravages of time, and so have been...
  14. M

    Brown Bess

    So far as I know steel ram rods first came with the 2nd model, but who is to say if that one is the original. The furniture holding it might indicate this, if the the ferruls appear to be a bit too big. The wooden rods were bigger in diameter. The thing with these guns is that they were...
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    Brown Bess

    Many Klatch, is correct. The lock maybe from the date it says, but the gun maybe from a later date by far. If this hasn't been cut down it would be very long, a 1st model long land pattern. It 'might' still have a wooden rammer if it hasn't been altered.. There might be other tell tale signs to...
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    Shooting Indian Imports

    colmoultrie , Try a bigger target made of card board so large as you can find, and move into 25 yards. Use a marker to make a X. Shoot learning to 'see' the sight picture. My "English Naval Officer's Pistol" has no sights. To shoot it 25 and 35 yards is a matter of knowing the gun, and...
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    If you could only have one

    I shoot lefty, and have a Nor West Gun, and a Brown Bess, both right handed guns. Both smoothbore, the first is 0.62 and the Bess eats .735 rb. These can shoot shot, single ball, or Buck n' Ball, which gets interesting. I also have a Kentucky Rifle; little .40 cal rifle with a Getz barrel, and...
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    Shooting Indian Imports

    Well I am new here, and have no idea what others, as yer ol scruffy self knows. I run a Bess and a Nor West gun and suffered pumping the rod on the top card too, so all I was doing which you took well enough was pointing this out incase you didn't know. I have no need for like minded, would be...
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    Wanted to buy/ trade for

    Warl, I knew it wouldn't be too long before someone took me up on the brownie dish challange. :hmm: In case anyone wants to know where that tail comes from. I made the most wicked and nasty concocction from fish guts, fish hides, scales, bits of sinew, and all sorts of other nasties as i...
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    Shooting Indian Imports

    Runball, Hi I am new here, and read on pg 1 that you pump parts of loads, using wads. That last thing you want is to pump charged breeches. If the ram rod follows your hand up when loading, you can be certain the down stroke is creating compression. Under the correct conditions, compression...
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