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    straight razor shaving

    I attended Barber School and learned to sharpen, strop with both kinds of strop, and shave with a straight razor. The stones that we used were a very smooth stone, almost like glass with a couple of drops of a good thin machine oil spreed over it. You pulled the razor towards you slowly when...
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    This Is A New Record\Flintlock ID Help

    Russ Hamm maslin?
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    Back Action Percussion Rifle

    If it were an original flintlock or even early percussion I would say don't touch it. But seeing that it is a back action (later period) percussion lock and probably a factory made gun rather than a hand made one it would have limited value so. Cleaning it up and repairing it may have lowered...
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    Safe(r) Use of Matchlocks

    I think that Petardo has the idea that the pan is primed with the match still in the gun. All the answers should have convinced him otherwise by now.
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    28 smoothie

    I hunt squirrels with a 28 gauge breech loader and it doesn't tear them up any worse than a 12 gauge muzzleloader. So I would say that with the proper loads it should do OK.
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    Green Mountain barrel question

    Have someone make you a sight with a bigger base and then polish out the vice marks and refinish the barrel. Or sell it and buy what you want.
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    Grinding Pyrodex for nipple primer?

    Since it is a percussion gun you probably could. However if you go to a rifle match and ask, someone will sell you or probably give you enough black powder to fill your nipple primer. Then you can take it home and grind 1/2 spoon full at a time as a safety consideration..
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    Challenge Can you ID this smoothbore?

    A gun made from various extra parts?
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    Short 28ga fowler

    Nice looking gun, like your hunting buddy too.
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    pedersoli sxs 12 ga questions

    If you will look at the top of the page you will se that this is a SMOOTHBORE forum.
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    Beginner questions

    Just to be on the safe side, pull your ramrod and drop it down the barrel if you hear a metalic "clink" then you are good to go but if you hear a slight "thud" then you have something down the bore. Also with the ram rod down the bore look to see how much if any is sticking out the muzzle. If...
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    Lyman Great Plains Hunter goes "crunch" not "bang"

    Chuck the nipple in an electric drill of drillpress start it spinning and lightly touch it with a file. Problem solved!
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    .36 or .40 ?

    Were I to start over I would go with a .32 then go to a .40 then a .50 and ether a .58 or .60. There just isn't enough difference in a 32 and a 36 or a 36 and a 40 to get excited about. What I did was a .36 then a .45 with a few .50 and .54 thrown in but ultimately it's your choice. For what...
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    Traditions Flintlock?

    Here's a link to it on Traditions web site: https://www.traditionsfirearms.com/category/Pennsylvania-Rif... Twisted_1in66 That is one ugly rifle stock.
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    How to remove traditions breech plug

    763-633-2500 this is the phone # for Track Of The Wolf. Call them before 12:00 noon central time tomorrow and tell them what is wrong and that you need the tools to pull a ball. You need a stainless steal range rod, get a long one then if you get a long rifle later, "42" barrel" you already...
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    brown bess flint

    I much rather use thin leather, for me it seems to grip the flint better. If installed correctly you shouldn't have to do anything to the flint after instillation other than knapping it until you need to replace it. Having to tighten the jaws constantly is not normal.
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    another newbie smoothie questio

    Take a good caliper and measure the thickness of the barrel as far down as you can in the barrel in two or three places and tell us how thick the metal is. Also measure the thickness of a modern gun barrel and compare the measurements. You may find that it looks a lot thinner than it is as the...
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    handgonne hunting

    For small game #4 buckshot would certainly do it but you wouldn't you have to have the barrel half full to have enough shot to make a pattern tight enough to hit a squirrel?
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    Removing nickel or chrome plating

    I recently answered my own question about this. I still don't know if the finish was nickel or chrome but I took the lockplate and hammer and put them in a pint jar, and covered with vinegar. Over the next couple of days I would pick up the jar and swirl the vinegar around a few times. On the...
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    RamRod/rangerod accessories manure

    The online search is very good. Next time stop and think about the situation,(1) you have a load of powder down the barrel (2) your brush is no good anymore anyway (3) nothing is lost if you shoot it out. May work or may not but at least you have the load of powder out of the way so it won't...
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