• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades
  • Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Search results

the hawken shop
shop deals on amazon
L & R
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. B

    sighting in Pedersoli's Frontier

    Good evening gentlmen (it’s 23:00 here in Poland :) ). Last sunday I wanted finally sighting in my Investarms capslock Hawken and my two flintlock rifles – Pennsylvania and Frontier, both of Pedersoli. All three guns are .50 caliber. I've shot them before several times just for fun, not for...
  2. B

    Minie for Zouave of "Armi Sport" ?

    Hello :hatsoff: I have just bought a Zouave rifle of "Armi Sport". Used, cal..58. The barrel has 3 grooves rifling and the 1/65 twist (1660 mm). The "slow" (1 in 65) twist suggests to use PRB, but somewhere i have read the 3-grooves twist by military rifles just like by my Zouave was...
  3. B

    What caliber of roundball?

    Hello :hatsoff: Just one question: what caliber of roundball should i use if my matchlock musket has .62 cal. barrel ? pozdrawiam (regards) :hatsoff: bartek
  4. B

    Shellack

    Did some one of you use it by finishing the stock ? I want to finish my one with so called "ruby shellack". I will finish presently the stock for my next matchlock musket, made from Acer pseudoplatanus L. (Excuse me please, i dont know Englich name). So i know shellack was popular by european...
  5. B

    What kind of barrel is it?

    I bought this pistol barrel because it was a real bargain (is it correct English word ? :hmm: ). I'd buy some barrel to made a pistol anyway, because i was thinking about it. But I have no idea for what kind of pistol is this barrel correct :redface: So my question is what pistol can i...
  6. B

    double barreled rifle?

    Have You some information about an American double barreled rifles with percussion lock? If they were used in US off course. I seen one specimen of Polish capslock rifle with two barrels. I know in central and eastern Europe they were used for hunting bears, boars and wolfs. best regards...
  7. B

    Jim Chambers locks

    There are many locks to get in TOTW, which are made by Jim Chambers : - Siler large lock - Deluxe Siler lock - Golden Era lock - American Classic lock - American Early Classic - and KITs off course :) Experienced Members of the Forum will be indignant :) , but my question is : what is...
  8. B

    revolving matchlock musket

    It is revolving matchlock musket, whish i found by one of our gunsmiths. It's beauty :bow: Dos someone of You know any example of original specimen of a musket like this (books, articles, museum collections) :hmm: ? :
  9. B

    Monks and cannons

    entry :) : 1655 Swedes attacked Poland and captured almost all country. The last bastion was the monastery in Czestochowa. Swedes tryed to capture the monastery too, but without enthusiasm. It was for them only the next little way-point to total victory. But there was very bitter surprise...
  10. B

    silvering brass

    I found this formula, how to silvering surface of brass: 1.You have to get silver. The best to use for silvering is AgNa3. This is the chemical used by illnesses of skin and eyes and You should get it in Your pharmacy. If not You can use everything, what is made from silver ”“ broken spoon...
  11. B

    ash wood

    I want to build a simple Kentucky rifle, without wood engraving and inletting. It will be first rifle made by me. :) I have no any experience about gun building :) . I did it never befor, so i want to build this rifle to learn all skills in practice. It is my main aim. I have many ash wood...
  12. B

    pressure in barrel

    Can someone tell me, please, what high is the pressure inside the barrel in the moment of powder's explosion? Another words: what pressure (number of atmospheres or bars) has to keep the iron or steel pipe, which is designed as a ML barrel in the future?
  13. B

    Early machinguns

    In museum in Warsaw there are two of this cannons. They were very popular in XVII century in Poland, Russia and Ukraine, where the cavalry was base of army (haevy armoured hussars in Poland, Cossacks in Ukraine and Tsar dragons in Russia). These cannons were also made as the "anti-cavalry"...
  14. B

    My new horn

    I just bought this antique horn (XVIII century). It is a little damaged I think the renovation of this horn will be my favorite hobby for minimum next month :) I never did it befor :p As You can see it's flat. I was looking for some antique powder horne and I note, every one I have...
  15. B

    cuirassiers

    These are french cuirassiers in the beginning of IWW. France had 12 regiments of them. Note the armour and helmets :).
  16. B

    early rockets

    I have found a few information about using rockets as a weapon in middle ages and later :) The polish monk and annalist Jan Dlugosz (1415-1480) wrote about battle of Legnica against Mongols in 1231: "When the big part of noble Mongols was killed Poles were very close to the fool victory. But...
  17. B

    Whiskey recipes

    I have a question, but if it is a problem You really don't have to answer me. I collect old recipes of alcohols and make them at home :) In Poland it is legal. I have 15 - 19th centuries recipes of vodkas, herbal wines, beers and meads. Can You give me a recipe for early american PC whiskey? ::
  18. B

    The Myth of the Hawken ?

    Just finished "The Hawken Rifle. Its Place in History" by Charles E. Hanson Jr. This gentleman strongly persuade, Hawken was NOT so typical and popular weapon in his period. Hawken was, as he says, only one of many small manufacturer making one of many typs of rifles. His arguments are between...
  19. B

    haw to make a horn soft?

    What chemicals should i use to make a cow horn soft? Maybe someone knows some another medthods (boiling?)?
  20. B

    "Kentucky Rifle" of John Dillion

    I will have the book "The Kentucky Rifle" of cpt. J. Dillion. In almost all opinions of editors and booksellers You can read the sentence : "A well known book". And what is Your opinion ? Can You tell me too, who was cpt. John Dillon?
Back
Top