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    A Bowling Ball Cannon! God This Looks Like Fun

    I think it's Fort McCoy in Kansas??? US Army School of Arty?? They've a great website with original pieces.. the Army pay reenactors to serve the guns to show Off'r Cadets...what a joy! There's a great shot of an original bowling ball mortar firing..the angle is such that you can just see the...
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    Conical choices for a 1-48 54cal. Hawken

    HI, As another chap endorsed... can't beat the maxiballs...same principle as artillery shells...the driving band... you engrave the rifling as you load it and my TC Hawken is as accurate as all get out with them...I reckon they're only marginally slower to load than minies but 10x more...
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    DGW Tennessee Flinter...HELP????

    Not trying for groups at 250 yds...I was recalling the Brit General shot at quite some distance (250yds?) during the Rev War? I'd hate to be facing lines of Redcoats armed with Besses... eventually they'd get to within 50yds of me!!! "Time for Mrs. McCoy's little boy to do a bunk!" See ya, Al
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    DGW Tennessee Flinter...HELP????

    HI Tom, 70gr 3f 015 patch with a 490 ball Patches are ok...burnt ring as expected... not torn thru... I do find I have to clean it every 2 -3 shots...or else loading gets a tad stiff. Rifling is fine and crisp at muzzle... no rough spots... no coning of muzzle either ...maybe I'm just a manure...
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    DGW Tennessee Flinter...HELP????

    Greetings, I have one of these in my livery and she's a beaut. I have found how to make her deadly at not much more than 25 yards. I'm using a .490 ball, 0.15 patch... 45:45:10 Beeswax: Crisco: Olive Oil lube...fouling is no big deal. At 50 yds... she'd scare the first line of British...
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    ml coating

    I agree with stumpkiller... I happened upon this by accident as I wiped a good amount of beezwax into the gaps between the wood and metal, around the breach end of the barrel..I figured any fouling would not pass under the barrel and rust... I hate pulling guns apart too often... I coated the...
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    netflix movies

    Donkey's years ago in the early 90'?...I was flying soemwhere and watched... I think Liberty?? with Al Pacino or Dustin Hoffman? It was ok... worth staying awaek for on the flight. The crossing I found disappointing... not enough shooting I recall? Apart from The Patriot... I reckon the US movie...
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    CW-era Military Repro Recommendations

    HI, Parker Hale Enfields were rather inexpensive when I started into the sport... I confess that the nicest Springfield 1860-something I ever saw for $300...was a Japanese one.. beautiful timber, flawless lock and barrel..made by Miroku..same as my DGW Tenn Flinter(fantastic rifle for the $)...
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    home bullet lube and lyman maxi-ball

    I use a recipe from my town's local guru... I made a HUGE batch so I have plenty and would have to look up the exact percentages accurately...but ? beeswax 50%, Crisco 45%[When I found the Aussie equivalent], Olive Oil 5% and about 10 drops of Oil of Wintergreen...so it smells like a very...
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    RiffleShoppe Hand Gonnes

    Safety Fuse!! Good call! That's a great idea.. If I flinch with my flinter...I wonder about a handgonne??? Fizzle spiz (matchcord).......FIZZLE spiz...fuse ignites... fizzle fizzle fizzle spiz............................................................................................KABOOM...
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    G'Day !!!

    I know what you mean about not being able to understand Aussies... I was upon your shores for only a month touring the South and rang home... it was amazing!!! I had developed an accent sort of...trying to be understood?? 97 was long time ago... due for another historical pilgrimage I reckon...
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    G'Day !!!

    Yep! An underhammer in Australia is more commonly known as an overhammer...to Blashphemers who have cast aside their flints in favour of Beezlebub's wee caps...it's a passing fad... See ya, Al
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    RiffleShoppe Hand Gonnes

    I have long admired the Handgonne from the Rifle shoppe.com ..the one with the serpentine match holder... bgs the question?? How do you prime the touch hole?... with a smouldering matchcord so close??? I have seen suggestions of making a copper sleeve to pull over the end of the cord...looks...
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    NEW KABOOM!

    I once tried making matchcord using a saturated saltpetre solution...fizzled and popped and burnt like what I imagine matchcord is meant to... not as a fuse like we expect!! I have read that feather quills can be filled with 3 - 4F and used as fuse...never tried. What about the caplock cannon...
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    mortar loads

    HI, I was at a cw re enactment and a bloke there had one... he was using a good 200gr and full tins of beans or spaghetti. Boy, the cans must have gone 300ft up in the air? Because it's a loose fit.. I'd suggest you could up the charge considerably...just like an unpatched smoothbore. Another...
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    G'Day !!!

    This looks to be about the kickingest forum I have ever seen! I am looking forward to reading and posting. My main interest in US history (have done the Civil War to death)has developed from buying some 34 years worth of bound Muzzleblasts and M'Loader mags...then I joined the MLNRA... I just...
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