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  1. Rum River

    The Superstition Of Gifting A Knife, Is It Real?

    Fifty years ago my Grandpa Dutch gifted me my first ever hunting knife. He had made it himself from a blade off the silage chopper on our dairy farm. Ten minutes later he walked over and told me had changed his mind and wanted it back. In shock, I slowly handed it back - after which he smiled...
  2. Rum River

    Grace tools review,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    Like others here, I have the Brownell's set. The first set was the basic from when I went to gunsmith school in the early 80's. The only bits I broke were from prying with them. (Young and dumb.) Over twenty years ago bought the big set. Since then added the thin blade and torx sets. Have kept...
  3. Rum River

    Sows ear CVA Hawken.

    I really like the brass/wood contrast on that.
  4. Rum River

    #11 cap shortage and mag-spark

    In my area of the world haven't seen caps for a "while" - not even the beat-up, half-full, scarred-up tins at a gun show for only $25. Thought briefly about the 209 option but I have a number of unmentionable guns that need those. So, yup. Buffalo Arms has more of my money and a 1000 RWS's are...
  5. Rum River

    Breech plug removal. Jag and cloth stuck in barrel

    First I would try holding the ramrod in a vise and pulling on the rifle. I read somewhere that back in the actual era some shooters would tie a leather thong to the ramrod with the other end anchored to a tree for the same approach. Second I would unscrew the ramrod from the jag and shoot it...
  6. Rum River

    Lyman Rifle Accuracy

    I have two different Lyman 54s, one with the 60 inch twist and one with the 32 inch twist. In both cases .535 projectiles worked better than .530. It sounds like a .535 would never work with an .018 patch in your rifle - but maybe with a .010 or a .015? I'm not saying this would instantly give...
  7. Rum River

    Black powder or Pyrodex

    I coached the local 4-H Shooting Sports blackpowder discipline for about ten years. Our state's 4-H rules said we could only use Pyrodex. The guns were either T/C Hawkens or Lyman Great Plains rifles. Once a week from early June through late August. Cleaned by the shooters with Ballistol at the...
  8. Rum River

    My 1st Ruger Old Army

    I agree with this gentleman. At one time I owned a Ruger unmentionable single action whose bore diameter was .357". I bought it used with it's 6 1/12" barrel very slightly bulged at the halfway point. It was so slight that I did not even realize it until cleaning one day and saw the ring in the...
  9. Rum River

    Uberti 1860 Army front sight

    I agree the best option is to raise the front sight to lower point of impact on a fixed sight percussion revolver. I currently own a couple of specimens on which I need to exactly that. They happen to shoot so high it would be impossible to file a notch deep enough on the hammer. If it were a...
  10. Rum River

    Just returned from the range

    I'm glad for threads like this, starting to get me fired up. The last three-four years some health stuff has really affected my time on our back yard range. This is the year. Things are less sucky now - looking forward to a good season on our range.
  11. Rum River

    Uberti 1860 Army front sight

    Look at it this way: Your line of sight is an absolute. It never changes as this invisible line from your eye extends through the aligned sights and then to the target. When you adjust iron sights you are actually moving the firearm around your line of sight. If the bullet holes are high on...
  12. Rum River

    gun safes and cap and ball stories...

    They did eventually catch the two guys that took our stuff. They had taken the big wood chipper we had and pawned it under their own name at the pawn shop 4 miles away. (I had turned in the serial number.) Couldn't prove they actually stole it so all they got charged with was possession of...
  13. Rum River

    gun safes and cap and ball stories...

    Overall I like my local law enforcement - but................. About ten years ago thieves broke into an outbuilding and stole our four-place sled trailer after loading it up with additional expensive stuff to the tune of $10,000-$15,000 total. The law that responded did a lot of head...
  14. Rum River

    Old pistols and a few questions

    That Whitney is cool. I don't know if you've field stripped it yet - but look for identifying marks/numbers on the bottom flat of the barrel under the rammer. The serial number should be under each of the wooden grip panels as well.
  15. Rum River

    What kind of stuff do you all read?

    Original copyright was 1965, my copy is the fourteenth printing from 1994. Online prices seem to range anywhere from $40-$50 to over $100.
  16. Rum River

    Public Apology

    You're welcome, I hope your shoulder improves and everything works out okay for you.
  17. Rum River

    Public Apology

    Just floating some options..... OP, could you please provide more info on how the barrel is defective?
  18. Rum River

    New to flints

    I have no idea what other shooters here have had to put up with when they tried a production flintlock rifle. I can say that my first flintlock is a Lyman GPR in .50 caliber - that I haven't had a bit of trouble with and shoots consistent three to four inch round ball groups at 100 yards. Over...
  19. Rum River

    Public Apology

    Could you please elaborate? The reason I ask: I once owned an unmentionable Ruger single action whose barrel had a 'ring' midway down it's 6 1/2" barrel. My guess is that a previous owner had a stuck bullet and then fired a second round - 'ringing' the barrel. There was no bulge visible on the...
  20. Rum River

    Scope mount hole fix

    I would never trust this fix. Modern smokeless rifles can develop chamber pressures of around 60,000 psi, or more. In the 1980's I attended two years of gunsmithing school. One day a fellow student came out of the test fire room with a bolt action rifle whose rear sight had ricocheted around the...
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