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    .50 CVA hawken

    fangs merry bunch”¦you guys are great first nice day”¦bang bang
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    .50 CVA hawken

    Shawn. I only have 3f”¦I've used it in all my rifles”¦and percussion pistols. Worked great in my wife's highly modified CVA -.50 mountain rifle. My daughter used it in her 3/8inch bore Pennsylvania full stock flinter I built for her and my son used it in the .22 left handed flinter I built a...
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    .50 CVA hawken

    Thanks”¦I'll just do that very thing. It has never been fired. Wish I could remember what I did with the jar that has all the locks in it. I'd love to make it a flintier.
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    .50 CVA hawken

    Been reading about CVA inlines blowing up”¦of course”¦it was AFTER I went to the gun auction”¦I didn't buy an inline”¦but, now I'm scared. Is it safe? Can I shoot 90 grains of 3f? I just bought the thing”¦brand new”¦never been fired”¦not a kit. The same auction had several TC's but they cost...
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    Workshops - let's see 'em!

    Did my ex send you that picture???
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    53 cal uberti hawken info

    You got yerself a great gun...but I'd use .525 balls and pillow ticking. They're the most authentic mass produced reproduction and I wish they still made them!!
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    Flintlock vs. Caplock accuracy

    Here we go again. I'm really attached to the Uberti SantaFe Hawken...but they haven't made it in 20 years...but....just maybe...you can find one where you're at. Sometimes gunsmiths have on tucked away or maybe you can find a boxed kit. Otherwise...I have a .54 GPR...if it just had an angled...
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    Nipple Pick

    there's a group online called "freecycle.org" You can't sell or buy there it's giveaway. Every major town in the us has a chapter. Now and again someone has a wornout piano to give away. Spectacular source of nipplepick wire!!! I found a 1/4 carat diamond under the keyboard along with a...
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    Closed eyes during flash

    Welcome to fffflinters...If you do a lot of range shooting it helps to tell the guy standing next to you that you're shooting a flinter...I like to make sure it's the same guy each shot...then...for the first few shots I speak up right smartly "FLINT!"...after that he's on his own hook. I've...
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    T/C Renegade Range Report

    What I did: Dry Balling a flinter is a trifle tougher to fix than a percussion rifle but...I used a ventpick to worm a few grains of 4f in the chamber of my Dixie Poorboy...primed the pan..and fired it off. Then I waited until I was pretty sure the powder was OUT. Doing this moved the ball...
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    Best Weight/Length Hawk For Throwing

    Get Foxfire book 5...blacksmithing...study it a bit and make your own..(these guys will tell you I'm cheap)...I used old sawmill blades and a bandsaw I built outta an old bicycle...I even used my kid to power it. I built a cheap forge from a coal furnace and cooked my own coke. You build your...
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    New to ML, gun kit choices...

    Yup...you're gonna get a flinter someday...do it now and save yerself a couple of years suffering with one of them modern guns that use them little copper caps. A nice GPR flinter in .54 goes together better. I've pretty much done all the production line kits. Now...If you can find a Santa Fe...
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    Is Traditional Muzzleloading "Elitist"

    it's hunting season here...went to the pawnshop to see what there was in sidehamers and found one...12 pawnshops. But I didn't find any inlines either. The BP season allows an extra deer over and above the cartridge rifles. The elitests (rear loaders) will be bringing their inline front...
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    Finally got my Renegade

    All the TC's I've bought and sold over the years...starting in 1976, had cleanout screws. But I never bought a new gun. I always bought used and pawnshops.
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    A newbie question...maybe 2

    I have hit...in the chest circle...a lifesize steel cut out of a buffalo at 300 yards, uphill, with my Dixie Tennessee PoorBoy. 25 yard gun my a$$. Your bullet maker needs to find something he's good at.
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    Old Rifle Has Arrived, And I Have Questions?? Pics!

    I noticed that nosecap has a dimple on both sides.
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    cutting patches at muzzle?

    Oh gawd...I hate to brag...no I don't. Since I've never taken more than one shot per deer per season and I use a "chew strip" and cut at the muzzle, I'd have to say cut that puppy. I don't know what I'd do if I missed....probably go home.
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    What is this? Any Idea???

    from the pic...I'd say it's not a self hinged patch box.
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    triggers

    Thet there flinter I built fer me daughter has the sweetest pinned single trigger. I never tested the pull on it but it never gave me the chance to flinch.
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    Semantics and Bore Size

    I'ze old..but it was in a history book...might even been a textbook. Just another one of those lodged memories...stuck 'til you shook my tree. I think it was 1985 or 86 when I read it...but it might have been anytime from 1947 on...
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