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    dry ball removal with water

    When we got the underhammer dry balled last Monday I tested my thoughts on pumping water into the barrel with a grease gun. My grease gun was mostly empty so I just unscrewed the grease gun loading end and filled it with water. With the zirc fitting installed in the nipple threads we pumped...
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    Removing deep sanding scratches on barrel.

    I am still working on my 75 ERA flint fowler. Just a couple of things to do before pinning it all together. One job is to work over the barrel with finer and finer sand paper to remove the 100 grit scratches left by the barrel builder. These scratches go around the barrel as the barrel must...
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    Non-traditional powder measures

    Or maybe they are traditional as we all probably used an empty brass case to measure powder when we were kids. Well anyway today is a cold indoors kind of day and I needed to work up some measures for shooting my 36 CVA Bobcat for the first time. Pulled out 19 empty cases from my collection...
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    slow match from highway flare

    I made some cotton match by soaking it in water that had disolved the oxygenator (potasium chlorate?) from a highway flare. Used about 6 inches of flare to one pint of water (used filter paper to remove the sludge and sawdust). After soaking the rope in it and drying the match burns nice but...
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    double gun construction

    Haven't seen a flint or cap double gun but wondered how the breech area was designed. I have two shotgun barrels from Gun Parts Corp and wondered how to connect them. How were the barrels attached to each other or were they not connected? With sidelocks I could imagine that the breach area...
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    Ramrod pipes - one pin or two

    I'm finishing up my ERA 11 gauge colonial fowler and have inlet the first ramrod pipe near the muzzle. The pipe is one made of sheet metal bent in a circle with a full length tab. The pipe is long enough to accomodate two pins but I don't know if that would be overkill or just too busy. What...
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    Frizzen resistance?

    I have an L&R lock on an ERA fowler kit and I'm not getting a great shower of sparks. Looking at the frizzen face I can see where the flint strikes the frizzen about half way done the face. The flint seems to scrape along the face for less than 1/4 inch before the frizzen gets kicked out of...
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    Linseed oil as rust preventative

    Was in the shop working on my flinter looking for some oil to rub on a newly polished barrel and all I could find handy was some boiled linseed oil. Made me think that this could be a good long term rust preventer as it doesn't evaporate and actually polymerizes somewhat as it drys. Anyone...
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    http://www.civilwarartillery.com/ great link!

    Just found this link today and see that we have it in our own links section already. This is a great site. It has among other things the "Artillerist's Manual" by Brig.-Gen John Gibbon. 604 pages of period info from gunpowder to theory of fire to taking care of your draft animals. There does...
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    Bridge jack mortar

    I was looking in the trash by the river the other day and found this big chunk of steel. With cannon fever my eyes always stray towards big chunks of iron :) It's a hydraulic bridge jack and stamped on its side was it's rating of 300 tons @ 8,700 psi. The bore is about 9 inches and overall dia...
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    "There is also Salt-peter-man...

    Found this interesting article while meandering around the Eley wire cartridge links provided by David Minshall. Thanks Dave! Go to : http://www.researchpress.co.uk/firearms/gunpowder/saltpetre.htm for the full text. What follows is a taste of it. "The Lord Coke, his Speech and Charge...
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    matchlock parts

    Hi all - Is there a good source for matchlock locks and other parts? Thanks, GC
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    Paper patched balls

    Hi BS - Would you please describe your paper patch process with round balls. Do you make two long rectangular patches and cross them or do you wrap the patch around the ball as you would for a cylindrical bullet? What kind of charges are you using in your rifle? Who made your barrel? I've...
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    golfball mortar today

    Shot the golfball mortar today for the first time. My mentor in this game suggested 55 grains of 1F to get a range of 33 yards. I had 2F. Loaded it with 30 grains just to be conservative. At the shot the ball disappeared. I just hope it stayed on the property... Put in 15 grains and I was...
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    Black powder secrets revealed...

    This add by Google shows up in the bar to the right of the Forum pages. Black powder secrets revealed... "Who Else Wants This FREE Book That Reveals Everything You Need To Know About Shooting Black Powder!" Has anyone requested this "free" pamphlet? Is it worth giving them your address for...
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    New gun not finished

    So the barrel is not finished and neither is the stock. The sights are not perfect but I will sight it in Friday. Going to hunt with it anyway if it shoots worth a bean. How many of you have hunted with a rifle that is not quite finished? Looking forward to next Monday. GC
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    Targets on the web

    I think Stumpy put up the address: http://www.uspalma.com/Targets/targets.htm to download targets. If you haven't been there it's worth the visit. Like being in a candy store and all it costs is the toner and paper to print them out. There are over 50 different target formats to print. Have...
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    Targets on the web

    UBB4-ML-177180-ML-
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    Barrel starter issue

    On some TC barrels there is a short section at the muzzle without rifling. The supposed purpose of this is to make loading easier. I'm not very happy with it as there is a sharp edge that cuts the patch when I load round balls. Has anyone ever polished or reamed the point where the rifling...
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    Went to London to see the Queen...

    Well actually I just visited the Tower of London with family and what a load of guns! Could have spent a lot of time there but I got burned out looking at the wall of muskets that I believe were India pattern. Cannons, mortars, hand gonnes, swords, pikes, spears, Gunpowder Plot, armor, the...
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