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  1. M

    why half-stocked relics?

    A great many of the antiques I have seen, even those advertised in catalogues in the 1910s, often have stocks which were cut half length down the forearm. They seem to have been designed with full length stocks in mind, so why would someone do this? Is there some practical purpose to it that...
  2. M

    history of the gun cabinet

    I've just now realized something; no one really has mentioned the topic of historical firearms storage! We know that the armories of Europe stored, and still store, their long arms in standing racks. We know from sources into the 1870s that hanging rifles upon the hall, and behind doors and...
  3. M

    historical measures - or - pfund und zoll

    I was reading up a bit on all of the weird and wacky measuring systems of the old European nations, especially the pre-German unification states. We all know that a bore is a division of the British official pound, being of lead for small arms and iron for cannons (eg. 12 bore is 12 balls of...
  4. M

    fancy corn dodgers

    Here's my crude guide; average it out to 300ml of meal giving your right about 10 dodgers. Put the meal in the cup and add your seasonings. One heaping teaspoon (the eating spoon, not the bakers measuring type - I always confuse them) of salt is necessary, for the flavor and for possible...
  5. M

    fancy corn dodgers

    Today I made my first ever batch of corn dodgers, and learned some lessons along the way. I've no idea about the history of corn dodgers, and my only knowledge of them is a few lines from the bearded guy in "Little House on the Prairie" and from Rooster Cogburn. The first was not totally crisp...
  6. M

    the death of the commercial muzzleloader

    They would be for cutting and shaping steel. Not really models, but kit guns.
  7. M

    the death of the commercial muzzleloader

    Well, this topic isn't actually about the fictional rifle, the Little House bit was a lead-in to the basic topic; common guns of poorer American in the year 1870, and the last commercial muzzleloaders before the tech advances of the 1870s made breechloaders possible for mass market sales. ps -...
  8. M

    the death of the commercial muzzleloader

    I would think so, especially for farm use on rats, snakes and such, but when it comes to hunting, such as for deer, the 22 isn't nearly as good as some other options, even if those options weren't up to the technological snuff of the coming times. This leads me to think that caplock trade...
  9. M

    the death of the commercial muzzleloader

    I was reading a bit of "Little House on the Prairie", and Ms. Wilder wrote of her father keeping a long rifle (we may never know what it looked like) over the chinked fireplace, hung on two green sticks jabbed into the log wall, and how he loaded it afresh each night with round ball and a cap...
  10. M

    How many of you folks can just walk out your door...

    I lived in Dallas, now in the rural south of Sulphur Springs. And in the process of befriending neighbors, we'd shoot up a storm. Now that I actually live out here, I've shot maybe twice in a month. Once was for fun, the other was to rid us of opossums in the garbage.
  11. M

    flint substitute

    so the sparking rocks are proper flint, quartz, agate, jasper, novacaine, chert and that's pretty much it? That's kind of a shame, agate is such a pretty rock to bust up, too. I still think it's worth an experiment to see if glass could produce a spark at all, even if it's not ideal, or even if...
  12. M

    flint substitute

    Jasper, agate and novaculite, eh? I have no experience with rocks outside of stepping on pointy ones and saying bad words thereafter, but I will look up these and check to see if they are local. It's just that I have the mental image of flintlocks being able to run on fumes, that I should be...
  13. M

    Leaning towards a Jaeger ???

    From what I've garnered over time and research, these are some points; - calibers ranged from 62 to 75, with 58s being seen, but not common, after the minie rifles became tech's bleeding edge. - barrels were hand welded, hand filed and hand rifled, with lengths around 26 to 32inches. - sights...
  14. M

    flint substitute

    From what I can garner, flint and chert are both natural glasses, and this brings me to the idea - can glass (like soda bottle glass) be used to shave sparks? As long as it has a micro-edge and is harder than the steel frizzen, would it not be feasible? There is no flint in the area and all...
  15. M

    JaegerBushce regional variations

    We all know of the regional schools of the Pennsylvania long rifles, but there's something I've been wondering about - what about variations with the direct ancestors of the PA, the JaegerBushce (German; hunter rifle). By the existence of multiple nations, and from the fact these guns existed...
  16. M

    how common were composite arms?

    bought? I was under the impression that the global powerhouse of the French monarchy was throwing aid (or instigation) at the anti-loyalists in an effort to content in a proxy war with the little empire that could, all in an effort to secure favor with and eventually dominate the colonies like...
  17. M

    how common were composite arms?

    judging from all the new and old information, seems to me that it boils down to this; Among those who did own guns, which did not constitute the majority of the population, the musket was much more common than the rifle in all aspects of colonial and regency life (sorry Fess Parker fans, ol'...
  18. M

    how common were composite arms?

    I have now saved that PDF, very informative. And I did not know that about the barrel swapping. Long live the jimmying of technology! Outside of a military context, were composite arms common in the hands of civilians, such as for hunting?
  19. M

    how common were composite arms?

    So COS muskets were not composites in the regular sense. But were they common at all, or will we just never know? I can see restocking being necessary, and any competent gunsmith of the time could have made a stock to fit the bits.
  20. M

    how common were composite arms?

    I know that the most common arms in the colonial era were muskets, and toward the revolution, it was the trade musket for all but the military and militias, who had mostly brown bess replicas and french arms. I've read the during the fur trapper period that up to 90% of the arms carried in the...
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