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  1. Jock Ellis

    Field Cannon replica

    What’s the expected service life? My machining instructor told me the service life of US Civil War canon was 900 shots while that of ferrous metal canon was between one and 75. In 1844, one designed by Capt. Robert Stockton USN exploded on its first shot, killing a member of the Cabinet.
  2. Jock Ellis

    prices then and now

    This is an awesome thread. In 1963, I got some late 1933 Popular Science magazines from my late great grandfather’s home and on the front page was a Dodge ad touting 30,000 miles between valve jobs. Young people today - unless they are gearheads - have never heard of valve jobs. Also in 1963...
  3. Jock Ellis

    Lead?!

    A fab shop-owning friend who makes lead-filled x-ray machine holders for the medical industry tells me he is very worried about the future because he can’t get pure lead.
  4. Jock Ellis

    Field Cannon replica

    I asked my machine tools technology instructor at Atlanta Technical College why Civil War cannon were made of brass and he said that in the 5,000 years since the beginning of the Bronze Age, metal workers had learned how to get the elements to mix thoroughly. He said brass cannon of that age had...
  5. Jock Ellis

    molds

    I might have suggested a mold of about .342 or so. A greased pillow ticked ball of .357 goes down my .375 bore rather tightly.
  6. Jock Ellis

    Wheat bread.

    Do you use Jameson instead of water? Like your Buzzy icon I used to go to Tech on fall Saturday afternoons in the ‘60. I had an aunt, Margie Bennett, who was Bobby Dodd’s Secretary. In the ‘70s and ‘80s I owned a South Georgia weekly newspaper near Brunswick. We went to St. Simons for dinner...
  7. Jock Ellis

    Wheat bread.

    When I started mixing ingredients for the first and last loaf of bread I ever made I didn’t think the little packets of yeast could possibly hold an ounce. So I tore open five or six and happily poured them in the mix. This was 28 years ago and I don’t remember anything of the instructions but...
  8. Jock Ellis

    What distance should I zero a 32 cal squirrel rifle?

    I have a muzzle velocity chart from about 35 years ago and it states that a .375 cal., 37” barrelled rifle with 3f BP has a muzzle velocity of 2,000 FPS. I’m guessing that more modern MV charted are more accurate and specific. Before my rifle was shortened by two inches, rebored and rifling...
  9. Jock Ellis

    Fredericksburg/Rappahanock Forge Muskets

    Five rounds a minute would seem to require a minimum of precision in loading and, therefore, a degradation of accuracy. I can see some truth in what I read because no one wants to get skewered so after a few volleys the Brits could start their charge facing frightened and/or wounded enemies...
  10. Jock Ellis

    Fredericksburg/Rappahanock Forge Muskets

    Hello, new guy here. May I ask a question about the Brown Bess on this thread? In one of the 17 books on George Washington I’ve read the author stated that the British only correctly loaded their muskets for the initial volley. After that the purpose of firing was to create a smoke screen which...
  11. Jock Ellis

    Your first muzzleloader?

    In the summer of ‘63 my father took me to an auction in downtown Atlanta and let me bid on what the auctioneer and the late lawyer/gunsmith/outdoor writer, Schley Howard, of Decatur who rebored it to .375 from .36 and re-rifled it called a Kentucky squirrel rifle. It has a half stock of curly...
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