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  1. DaveC

    Need parts for Pedersoli Charleville Mle. 1763/66! Help!

    The mainspring on a Pedersoli-mfr. Charleville Model 1763/66 flint lock is broken/ snapped. The lock has had a bad battery/steel/"frizzen" replaced. The cock was replaced with a swan-neck by a previous owner, and it doesn't fit right, and in short, needs a factory replacement. No one seems to...
  2. DaveC

    WANTED Traditions HawkenTM Woodsman STOCK

    Howdy. I've got a .50 cal. percussion Hawken Woodsman rifle with double-set triggers with a broken stock... I'd like to get a replacement stock for it! Does anyone have one they could part with? Thanks! DaveC San Antonio, Texas
  3. DaveC

    Flintlock misadventures... So many!

    Ugh. So I've shot my flintlock .32 and did pretty well with it. Then I decided to replace the flint, and everything went to heck... Maybe my misadventures, or "worst.day.muzzleloading. evar." might inform and educate? 1. The flint was not close enough to the frizzen. Result? It smashed...
  4. DaveC

    Federal smoothbores at Gettysburg, Jul. 1863

    Dean S. Thomas, Ready ... Aim ... Fire! Small Arms ammunition in the Battle of Gettysburg (Thomas Pubns., 2007), pp. 60-67, citing, RG 156 Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, NARA --"Quarterly Summary Statements of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores" 30 June 1863: 88th Pennsylvania...
  5. DaveC

    Replace battery/steel (aka. frizzen)?

    So the second-hand flintlock .69 caliber French-type frankenmusket I got not too long ago that was breaking flints like mad just broke. Turns out the battery/steel was a weird replacement where the original pan cover was cut-off and retained and then had a piece of hardened steel for the...
  6. DaveC

    Breaking flints on used/new-to-me musket

    Just got my first flintlock musket. It was a Pedersoli "Charleville Mle. 1763/66" but was modified to resemble a Mle. 1728/46. Part of that modification involved replacement of the double-throated cock with a serpentine 'goose neck' variant. I adjusted the flint with a bevel down and leather...
  7. DaveC

    .31 cap 'n ball=.32 PRB?

    Hello, I've searched the forum, and I fully expect that this question has been addressed before, but I just can't find it... Please bear with me. I'm getting a .32 cal. squirrel rifle as a gift for my wife, and I'd like to include a small cap and ball revolver to go with [it would be her...
  8. DaveC

    Recurrent barrel rust?

    I used to shoot my .50 Kentucky rifle about once a month. I spend a long time at the range using 20-ga. shotgun patches with Blue Thunder black powder solvent before I head back home after shooting. When I get home, I use hot water and more patches to swab the bore. Because it is a Kentucky...
  9. DaveC

    Looking for Powder

    Hello from a muzzleloading novice down in S. Texas. I'm just getting started, and all I can find for sale retail are black powder substitutes, e.g. 777 for the most part. I'm going to go farther afield, up to the Hill Country and San Antonio in Central Texas, but does anyone know off-hand if...
  10. DaveC

    Howdy from S. Texas

    Howdy everyone. Lurker residing in S. Texas here. I went to gawk and spectate at a black powder muzzleloader match at my local gun club and a friend gave me some instruction and let me shoot the match in a relay with his Lyman Great Plains .50. So now I'm hooked! I've been reading up as much...
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