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    loadin brown bess

    Been shootin my Brown Bess alot. And when we load paper cartidges with a .175 ball. We have to swab the bore and lube it about every two shots or the loads wont go down. I know it is fowlin, but thats only a couple of shots, what a pain. Any advice? When we load it like ashotgun we dont have any...
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    brown bess

    Ive been shooting flintlocks for a long time, usually have no trouble. But this Brown Bess is giving me fits. I love shooting it but no matter what I try, I am havin hangfries and at times it doesnt even burn the powder out of the pan. And it is sparking each time. Ive tried other types of...
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    powderhorn

    just wonderin how to give the horn the polish shine. and if anybody has any info on scrimshawing. thank you dweeble ps i posted this in another forum without thinkin first lol
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    scrimshaw

    I was wondering if anybody can help me on scrimshawing on a powder horn. I have the horn that i have smoothed down myself and now i what to add some scrimshaw to it. i have never done this before. need some advice please. plus i all so what to know if there is some way to give the horn the shine...
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    refinishing a barrell

    I have a Thompson Center .45 cal. flintlock barrell that is currently factory blue. Needs to be refinished. I have always been a fan of barrells that were slow rust browned. How do you do it? Or who can I get to do it? Or do I just need to chemical brown it and forget it? Thanks for any info...
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    brown bess sling

    Here is another question to be answered by all who know the answer for me. as you all know husband has a brown bess. he wants to take it for hunts and to shoot at home. he bought a sling from Dixie Gun Works that was for the bess. but now it is a pain to sling it over your shoulder even when ya...
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    trouble in the flintlock hammer

    This question is from my husband. I have a Pedersoli frontier rifle in flintlock, less than a year old. Love it. Took a deer with it Thursday. But today (Dec.5) while hunting, it started acting up. When you try to cock it to full cock, it wont stay cocked. But if you pull the set trigger, then...
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    brown bess polish or not

    I have a question for somebody to answer for me. My husband has a Brown Bess. It is polished steel, no blue or no brown. It is such a pain to keep it cleaned and keep the rust off of it. What do you do about that if anything. Or do ya just keep takin it out and checkin for rust and clean it...
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    Hello from Illinois

    I just wanted to say hello to everybody.
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