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    Curtis & Harvey No. 6 black powder

    Reading over some period testing reports from the British government I notice that Curtis and Harvey No. 6 powder was found to give the best accuracy results. I have heard of English Black Diamond powder being preferred in the western fur trade but don't know anything about the Curtis and Harvey...
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    Swaged .58 projectiles

    Any information on a source for swaged Minies other than the .577 Prichert projectiles offered by Dixie Gun Works? I have been experimenting with 300 and 500 yd shooting with replica rifled muskets and would like to try swaged or "cold pressed" Burton type projectiles.
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    .54/28ga tradegun/fowler

    As I progress through life I find that I cannot handle my.75 Brown Bess Musket as well as I did when I was younger. I am thinking about getting a .54/28ga. tradegun or fowler. When I was more into the smoothbore competition scene in the Midwest, 10 years ago, I noted that the heavy barreled...
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    Euro Arms Enfield

    I bought a 1861 Artillery carbine from a NSSA skirmiser 5 years ago and it has been nothing but joy since I found the right Minie . 500he RCBS. A winner at monthly shoots and two Mule Deer down.
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    Pedersoli Mortimer 12 Gauge

    My old hunting partner had one and it was a very nice accurate rifle/good patterning shotgun in flint. He had both barrels. He did have a problem with breaking main springs on the lock however. At the time we were doing two shoots a month at various clubs and the Mortimer got a lot of use. He...
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    Pacific Primitive Rendezvous

    Anybody else from the Forum going to the Pacific Primitive Rendezvous near Winchester Idaho June 22-30?
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    Correct starting load for a Investarms 50 cal HAWKEN

    90 grains 3f Goex under a Hornady 385 Great Plains Bullet has brought two small(400-500lbs) cow Elk home. For trailwalks mine likes 50 grains of Goex under a.490 roundball patched with .015 denim.
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    Smoothbore Paper Cartidges

    Since everything is dry inside the cartridge I find that the loose powder does not adhere or filter around the ball. When the cartridge is emptied into the barrel I find that all the powder- a measured 80 grains- goes down the barrel. I must note that the cartridge paper is quite a tight or...
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    Smoothbore Paper Cartidges

    Getting onto this thread late, here is my non- traditional Bess cartridge protocol. My load in my Pedersoli Brown Bess for trailwalks, military shoots, whitetail and small Elk is 80 gr of 3f. with a .735 Lyman ball ball in a computer print out paper cartridge-yellow pages paper out of the...
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    Max load for an Italian reproduction enfield

    I have found the service charge of 68.5 gr. 2F with the Parker Hale 566 gr. Lyman bullet to be very effective on Mule Deer and Elk out of my Euroarms Enfield Musketoon.
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    Loading Brown Bess Paper Cartridges

    Getting onto this thread late, here is my non- traditional Bess cartridge protocol. My load in my Pedersoli Brown Bess for trailwalks, military shoots, and whitetail is 80 gr of 3f. with a .735 Lyman ball ball in a computer print out paper cartridge-yellow pages out of the phone book work well...
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    10 gauge side by

    They look like Birmingham "view" and "definitive" proof marks required by the proof act of 1855 for class 4 arms firing small shot. My sources do not give any information on the WS. I guess it is a makers mark.
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    10 gauge side by

    Can you post photos of the undersides of the barrels?
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    Paper cartridges for Brown Bess?

    Getting onto this thread late, here is my non- traditional Bess cartridge protocol. My load in my Pedersoli Brown Bess for trailwalks, military shoots, and whitetail is 80 gr of 3f. with a .735 Lyman ball ball in a computer print out paper cartridge-yellow pages out of the phone book work well...
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    Survival Muzzleloader ! Your Pick ?

    Brown Bess
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    Paper cartridges

    My load in my Pedersoli Brown Bess for trailwalks, military shoots, and whitetail is 80 gr of 3f. with a .735 Lyman ball ball in a computer print out paper cartridge-yellow pages out of the phone book work well also. The computer paper mikes at .0035 and two wraps around the mandrel-cartridge...
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    Fowler vs Trade Gun? help

    Ed, the time period you are interested in would give you a choice of French Fusil, English Trade Gun, or either a French or English style fowler. The Brits took over Michigan in 1763. After having a Northwest English trade gun, a French Partrisan fusil,and a Brown Bess, I would now go with a...
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    Parker Hale Mold 58560-the rest of the story

    On June 17 I posted this on ML forum: " I picked up the top half of a Parker Hale .58 Minie mold at a gun show last month. Not having the bottom plug I tried my bottom plug from a Lyman 575611PH mold. It was too small. I have an old 500 grain RCBS Minie mold from which I tried the bottom plug...
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    Removing "frozen" revolver nipples

    Sometime ago I was given an old replica 1858 Remington New Model Army .44 cylinder. It sat on my desk as paper weight until I happened to have my Pietta 1858 on the desk for some reason. I tried the paper weight cylinder in the the 1858 and it fit! In fact it shoots better than the original...
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    Got a problem here, [sigh]

    I had good sucess shooting T7 3f out of my Enfield Musketoon at a local trailwalk. I had developed a 3f black load of 42 grains for use at trailwalks shooting unsized Lee 500 grain traditional Minies and .575 sized Lyman Parker Hale 566 grain Minies. I loaded up a cartridge box full of both...
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