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    Making paper cartridges

    Flash paper burns amazingly clean and I have never had a misfire with it. I get my flash paper from H & C Collection and the quality is great.
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    Making paper cartridges

    The last couple of years I have experimented a lot with paper cartridges for cap & ball revolvers. I just wrote an article on how to make these paper cartridges that some of you might have interest in: Making Paper Cartridges for Percussion Revolvers. I've also written a piece on the original...
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    P-H Whitworth question

    This picture shows a new unfired steel nipple to the left and to the right one that has been fired fourteen times in my Whitworth.
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    P-H Whitworth question

    I shoot a Birmingham-made Parker-Hale Whitworth both in the MLAIC 50 offhand and 100m prone matches. While it cannot compete with the Pedersoli Gibbs and other custom rifles at 100m and Bristlen and similar rifles at 50m, I scored 93 points in the 100m competiton in the 2012 MLAIC World...
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    White Lightning touch hole liner & fouling

    As previously mentioned you can swab after the powder or ball is loaded. After having experienced some misfires in a rifle of mine with a White Lightning I use the following methods depending on loading procedure: 1. Load the powder, short start the ball, place a damp patch over the muzzle and...
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    Gas sealing with PRBs in rifled barrels

    Here are two more that shows gas before the ball exits: yQv8Oy_NPVs EYjyxAVYMZA It looks like the same things happen in modern guns as well: otpFNL3yem4
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    Gas sealing with PRBs in rifled barrels

    This video of a patched roundball exiting a flintlock rifle is pretty slow at 15,000 frames per second (when you get to around 0:30 the video hasn't stopped, it's actually that slow): oHF6BXhUzcA I found the video at Larry Pletcher's excellent site...
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    Confederate Hall Receiver

    The Hall chamber was used as an inspiration for the Norwegian chamber-loading rifle that was adopted in 1842. Norway was the first army in the world to equip all its soldiers with breech-loading rifles. One of the main success factors of this rifle was that it solved the gas leakage problems of...
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    peep or tang sight on armi richmond rifle

    What you can do is to make a new rear sight of an angle iron, such as shown in this article. Drill aperture holes in the leafs. You will then need a higher front sight. Perhaps this sight will suit your needs?
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    Shooting the Baker rifle

    Yes, De Witt Bailey's book is a great source of information on the Baker. The contemporary publications on the rifle provide an interesting read as well. Ezekiel Baker's small publication Twenty-three years practice and observations with rifle guns is available online from Google books, as is...
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    Shooting the Baker rifle

    Baker rifles are fascinating, and an often overlooked firearm outside the UK it seems. How does it shoot with that slow 1 in 120" twist? A few pictures would be nice. :)
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    Pedersoli Quality

    To clarify about the MLAIC targets: Rifle, pistol and revolver utilise the UIT 50 metre Pistol Target. 10 ring = 50 mm (1.97") diameter, black centre out to 7 ring, measuring 200mm (7.87"), white out to 1 ring, measuring 500mm (19.69"). Revolver and pistol (best hand) is shot at 25 metres...
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    any quallity minie ball rifles out there with...

    To my knowledge the only Minié rifle with options for windage adjustment is the Pedersoli replica of the German Model 1857 Würtembergischen vereinsgewehr. Although never issued during the American Civil War and only available in .54 caliber, this rifle is the preferred Minié rifle among...
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    Muzzleloading World Championships 2012

    Is anyone going to the MLAIC Muzzleloading World Championships in Germany next week? 399 shooters from 23 countries are participating, of which 24 are from the US. I'm participating for the Norwegian team, and will be shooting flintlock rifle at 50 and 100 meters, rifle-musket at 50 and 100...
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    When to set trigger?

    The trigger of my flintlock longrifle needs to be set before it can be half cocked (or cocked). Not many rifles are made that way today as far as I know.
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    minie out of 50 cal flinter

    You don't mention what Minié you plan to use, and in which gun. Flintlock rifles usually have roundball rifling with deep groovs that doesn't favour Minié balls. As far as I know, the only commercially available .50 calibre Minié balls are the ones Lee makes. I have tried the Lee Improved...
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    Aperture sights on American longrifles - again

    The eight edition of Flayderman’s Guide to Antique Firearms shows several heavy barreled Kentucky match rifles with aperture sights on page 551. "Made solely for rifle match competition these very heavy barreled rifles generally conform stylistically to the plainer grades of Kentucky rifles but...
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    Jaegars Revisited: Military Style

    The question is how you define a jaeger rifle. Jaeger rifles are more than an "American jaegers" you know. ;) The jaeger rifles used by Danish and Norwegian light infantry in the 17 and 1800s as seen on elverumske.no originated from present day Germany, Russia and Denmark. The first jaeger...
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    Aperture sights on American longrifles - again

    I would have been interesting to know where the Dillin collection ended up when he died. I'm sure they are in a collection somewhere. Whether the sights are 18th or 19th century doesn't matter to me, as the MLAIC rules say: "Aperture sights (including modern made replica sights) are permitted...
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    Flint type Lock with no Half Cock Poistion?

    I have a Tennessee rifle made by Steve Bookout of Toad Hall Rifleshop that requires the triggers to be set before the lock can be cocked. Can you explain how that lock is dangerous? There is no way I can get that rifle to go off when half-cocked. To fix it, I can probably bend the sear arm up...
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