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    SOLD .58 cal early rifle SPF

    SPF.....
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    SOLD .58 cal early rifle SPF

    Thanks, Yes it's a small amount, about 3/8
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    SOLD .58 cal early rifle SPF

    Haven't had time to be on here in quite a while, but I got in a used 58 I made a few years back. It's in very good used shape 37'' round bottom bbl, chambers lock, 13 3/4 pull, set triggers and shoots great paper cartridge or patched. Any questions just ask. I'm selling it for about half what...
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    nitre bluing of screw heads

    If you case harden the screw before bluing, it will last a very long time. 200+ year old guns will attest to this. I do now anyway if I don't blue because it keeps the screw head clean. I use brownells case harden compound and then melted PN for large parts like trigger plates, patch box...
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    Jaeger Rifle question?

    64 out of thousands isn't great odds. That's how easily incomplete information gets spread and there is enough of that in this hobby. The book I mentioned has two early 18th century jaegerbuechse in it and one does have a peep so does that mean 50% of them had them? Obviously not. Even if its...
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    Jaeger Rifle question?

    Muzzleloader Builders supply :hatsoff: This link should work better too http://bdarms.blogspot.com/2014/07/mid-18th-century-rifle.html
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    Help me find my next fowler!

    If you only hunt with shot why not consider a choked bbl .62? I've built several under 7lbs and they are turkey killing at its best. They shoot patterns like a modern shotgun. Colerain makes them in swamped 38'' which is close to what you were after. The only change to loading is the use of...
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    Jaeger Rifle question?

    I have seen quite a few jaeger rifles (flint and wheel lock)with peep sights, Spanish, Turkish and Germanic. Some with vertically strung holes for elevation. You have to remember just because a certain book doesn't have doesn't mean anything. The Lancaster rifle book has one and it's not a...
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    Half-stock Fowlers

    Chambers early Ketland is real quick as is. I use it on a lot of my rifles too. After tuning, case hardening and polishing I don't think there is a better lock of that size.
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    Half-stock Fowlers

    Thanks. The curly ash was interesting to work with to say the least. The Dunlap kit will run closer to 1k with shipping and the parts they don't include, forward pipes, touch hole, keys,sight, etc. I cut 1 1/2 off mine to lighten the front so the 10ga or 12ga is neither here nor there.
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    Half-stock Fowlers

    I just built one of Dunlap's in 12ga stocked in curly ash and it really is one fine pointing gun. I added some of my own touches like the horn cap, thumb piece, silver etc but you cant go wrong in my opinion if you want to start with a kit. I'm not really a fan of kits in general but Dunlap's...
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    Any Vermonsters out there?

    We have a lot of black powder guys at the black river rod and gun club too :thumbsup:
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    Any Vermonsters out there?

    Several around here. I'm less than a hour from you. Stop by Fort William Henry oct 11-12 for th e encampment and trade fair plenty of us will be there....
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    Original makers' production numbers

    That is Benjamin Gill, not James, Dickerts grandson, who he apprenticed with and carried the business name. They had a lot of employees so not exactly one off guns anymore. "Gill pattern" comes up in JJ Henry records and AFco too so you get an idea of their influence. In 1826 JJ Henry sold...
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    Original makers' production numbers

    Christian Oerter made around 16 a year at Christians Spring. I'm sure Dickert may have done more during the rev and certainly more when he paired with Gill. I'm not sure when he got into duplicating stocks but paired with his barrel mill and shop he could have cranked them out.
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    American/Celtic Theme Flat Horn

    Absolutely love the knot. :hatsoff:
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    Flints

    MBS has made in America flint for $1. http://www.muzzleloaderbuilderssupply.com/mbs2cart/agora.cgi?cart_id=2666218.10347&next=25&product=Flints Their English flints I have found also to be more consistent than track.
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    Mid 18th century rifle

    Thanks, They are 3/16 on both. Jeff, That was the quest I was on and when I found euro schools I was hooked. The rut of precarves seems to have everyone thinking jaegers were all short and thick and it just isn't true. Same goes with the Ed Marshall, it seems to be the compromise build now...
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    Mid 18th century rifle

    Its just how the shadow makes it look. I was fighting with sun and clouds so there is a few colors and shadows that really aren't there in person. If you look close you can see the line.
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    Mid 18th century rifle

    I started calling it the paradox gun because of that. Its big but not really heavy at 8.5lbs, short but doesn't look or feel like it, wide but not fat. All characteristics I see in some Bavarian made rifles I admire.
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