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    Interesting Find

    Aquired an interesting barrel this week, it's an older barrel 7/8" (or about) at the breech X 3/4" at the muzzle X 41-5/8". It's a smoothbore! Let's say .52 cal...bore has surface rust and I haven't had a chance it clean it out yet, but I swear I see traces of rifling....cleanup of a shot out...
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    Bean Rifles

    Anybody know of a published work, collection of photos, website, etc., on Bean rifles (C., S., or J...doesn't matter). Interested in studying them with an eye toward a build. Beck/Lehman/Hawkin, Dickert, et al, seem to have been done to death. Heck, anytime you can buy a kit from at least three...
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    Making yer own swampped bbl

    I picked up a GM .45 (smoothbore) earlier this year (brand new..was $70 a good price? he-he). It's 1" across the flats x 42" and I'd like to lighten it some. Anybody here ever drawfiled their own swampped or tapered barrels? I have a three week streach of Scout summer camp coming up with nothing...
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    Squirrel Gun Question

    I used my .45 flintlock some last year to lower the local squirrel population. I hunt mostly fence rows on the edges of a family pecan orchard and most of my shots are in the 50 to maybe 70 foot range...these squirrels haven't been heavily hunted and you can get fairly close before taking the...
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    My Latest

    My Latest (Hey! And my first!) scratchbuild. My takeoff of a Southern mountain rifle. .50 cal Green Mountain barrel, old CVA lock, spalted Maple stock. Only the lock and barrel were purchased, all the rest of the iron furniture were forged in my shop. No power tools were used except a drill for...
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