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    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    For some odd reason that jogged a memory about the so called doctor in the movie “a million ways to die in the west”. Anyway the doctor is ready to amputate anything from getting bruised or scratched to being shot. But way back then bathing was maybe a yearly thing so even a scratch could be...
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    The far left state

    Welcome to the forum from Texas.
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    This guy really, really wanted a hand gonne

    I had thought seriously about making one myself. But I wound up getting a decent deal and bought one at the time. That was an impressive amount of work to make one. It turned out well too. I would have threaded the breechplug though. But otherwise it has that handmade approach that was...
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    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    One thought about a bit of a pet peeve of mine. It is how in many movies the good guy or bad guy for that matter gets shot in the shoulder area. Generally getting shot in the shoulder or stabbed or with an arrow etc is a fatal wound. There is a major artery and vein that goes through there. Plus...
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    Vintage tool for working leather?

    I can agree in that it is a leather pricking punch. It is interesting that it was made so wide too. I cannot think of anything else it could be either. Maybe they made it for big items like briefcases, large purses, etc.
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    That’ll stick!!!!!

    That is some nice throwing. But I have a hunch it is like getting a hole in one on the golf course.
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    Plastic wads/shot cups

    I use 16 ga shot cups with my .69 musket and my .69 pistol too. I had to buy a case of 500 though. But the price was pretty good at the time. I used the musket for five hunting to good effect. The shot cups really do work too. I like the idea of paper shot cups too. I wonder if they can make...
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    Now THIS wheellock would hurt a LH'd shooter!

    There’s a pretty amazing piece. I expect that they never really expected anyone to actually shoot it. But back then everyone was wearing heavy clothing and heavy jackets or coats so it probably wasn’t a problem to shoot it. But as you noted there is a lot of stuff in the way to shoot it left...
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    Dixie gun works rifle ID

    I have the left hand version. I have shot it quite a few times myself too. Mine was made in Japan by a well known company that made good guns. This was back in the 1970s. But DGW did have guns made in Italy, Spain and Belgium even
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    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    I happened upon the horror flick “Waxworks” and later in the movie the hero confronts Marquis de Sade with a trapdoor conversion pistol that looks like a flintlock. They actually showed the gun fairly well too. I was thinking that I wouldn’t mind actually owning a functional trapdoor pistol...
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    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    I happened in on the old Waxworks movie from 1988. In a Marquis de Sade confrontation scene the hero had a 45-70 trapdoor conversion pistol that looked like a flintlock. Hollywood special effects houses converted hundreds of old 45-70 trapdoors to look like flintlocks or percussion guns many...
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    Double checking the arbor end fit on my 2022 Pietta 51

    I would try pulling the wedge and any screws holding the barrel on, then heat the barrel around the arbor to expand it slightly, then try using the reload press bar to see if it might come loose then. Or use the brass or wood dowel down the barrel to wack it loose with a wood or leather mallet...
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    FOR SALE Wasp nest

    We have them here in the DFW area. But the nests are typically smaller with us as We try to keep them under control with wasp spray. But once they fooled me and there was three bigger ones crammed into our kitchen stove vent. I guess the queen didn’t survive the winter or something preyed on...
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    Can you use a 17mm punch to make 16ga wads?

    Sounds good to me. Punch some out and have a go at it.
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    Goex. Is it still being made in 2024

    Well they have been shipping black powder out to the distributors in 2023. They say they are continuing to fill orders in 2024 too...
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    Cleaning jag getting stuck

    One other thought that some rifles have a stepped chamber down near the breech. This is smaller than the bore itself. You have to watch out for it or you would get the jag stuck there too,
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    .36 Colt Navy that powerful??????

    And one of Stalin’s Russian KGB assassins used two or three .25acp handguns to murder more than 7,000 Polish officers and elites in WWII too. Granted he was shooting them all at point blank in the back of the head. This was the Katyn massacre in WWII when the Russians systematically murdered...
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    .36 Colt Navy that powerful??????

    The .36 cap and ball guns were a lot more effective than people today give them credit for. Way back then it was considered adequate for people stopping. Medicine was very primitive and getting shot with anything usually meant a slow death no matter. The little .22 short revolvers and derringers...
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    Who's got the best lube?

    There is no single best lube. Everyone has a different concoction they like to use. All of the different lubes have pros and cons.
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    Fears Deadly Deer Disease Could Infect Humans

    As I remember it, there have been a couple three highly suspicious cases of someone getting CJD like disease from consuming CWD infected deer. The establishment of course bad talked it and the media like usual censored it pretty fast too. So it leaves me to think that yes it could be transmitted...
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