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    Playing around in the Shop

    I had a little time today to duck down into the shop and play around scratching an itch. Ended up making a patch holder for my shooting kit. The caps are some black walnut scrap 3/8 inches thick cut with a hole saw and the body of the holder is made out of some reclaimed 100 year old copper...
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    Percussion pistol build question

    I'm building a .50 caliber smooth bore percussion pistol and have a question about the nipple drum. Should it be supported on the bottom by the lock plate? I'm asking because all of the factory fire arms I've seen have a small gap between the bottom of the nipple drum and top of the lock plate...
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    Some of the Collection

    During all the down time I thought it might be fun to share a picture of my cap lock collection with everybody. They are nothing special, a CVA Mountain rifle, a CVA Hawken, a CVA Frontier and a Traditions Kentucky pistol all in .50 caliber with brown barrels. Picked most of them up with small...
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    Well I had to Bring it Home

    I was over at the Alifia Rendezvous last week and found this on a blanket. It was missing the butt plate, ram rod and had a bore plugged up with a bunch of crud and what looked like oily powder and a patch. For a hundred dollars I had to bring it home. I have already scrubbed the crud out...
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    Strong Firearms Parrot Cannon

    I picked this .50 caliber bronze Parrot cannon up about two years ago at a flea market. Took a while to track down who made it, I ended up finding that it dates from the 1860's and was made by the Strong Firearms company. They marketed it in their catalog as a safe alternative instead of using...
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    BP Substitute Questions

    I was given 8 one pound jugs of Pyrodex along with another six cans of black powder and am interested in using the Pyrodex in my .50 caliber Hawken cap lock for fun shooting. Been shooting black powder for a while and am curious as to what load I should start with using the substitute. I would...
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