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    Rookie with first questions

    Thanks for the tips, guys. I'll bring the barrel back to get the vent liner just ahead of the breech plug and centered on the pan. Good idea on the notch vs hole in the bolster, Rich. :hatsoff:
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    Rookie with first questions

    I'm working on a York kit from Chambers (RK-2). I've chopped out the rounded corners at the breech end of the barrel inletting and brought the barrel as far back as the kit's original inletting will allow. That seems to leave it too far forward for two reasons: - it leaves about 3/16" of space...
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    Lyman .54

    FORS -- front opposite, rear same. If you want to move the bullet's impact to the left you can either move the front sight to the right or the rear sight to the left. Just tap the sight to move it in the dovetail in the desired direction. Use a brass drift if you have it, or get a wooden dowel...
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    New T/C flinter

    How does the flint itself look? Have you tried replacing it yet? Get it adjusted properly by putting the flint parallel to and in contact with the closed frizzen while the cock (hammer) is all the way down, move the frizzen out of the way and nudge the flint ever so slightly forward. Put the new...
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    Getting Started

    And too bad there are no makers of after-market drop in replacement barrels for them, so you could get those options along with a smooth 28 ga or even a 20 ga.... but the fat lady is not singing yet, so there is still a chance it could happen.
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    Getting Started

    Thanks for that OldFord ... I'll add that the posted price on the .54 flint version I have listed includes shipping to the lower 48.
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    Half-cock is not a safety

    LOL! Here we go again. :grin: My Dear Paul, if you read the first post carefully you will see where I wrote that "I still get the half-cock function." Yep, right there in the first post. Surprised you missed that. If you are referring to the "rough bit of metal along its edge," if that act had...
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    conicals in slow twist

    It's the Greenhill Formula. As BountyHunter says, it's the length of the projectile rather than the weight (though they are related). Scroll down to the bottom of this page: http://members.aye.net/~bspen/math.html .
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    Sight Adjustment

    Thanks :thumbsup:
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    Sight Adjustment

    Way back when, Zonie gave the math on figuring out how much front sight to remove to raise the point of impact by a specified amount. I don't see it in the "how to" articles and I'm rolling critical failures in my attempts to find it with a search. Anyone have a link to where it is? Or, failing...
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    Half-cock is not a safety

    I had to google La Paz to see where it was -- *way* over there by Yuma! If you end up on the east end of the state, down there where Old Mexico, New Mexico, and Arizona come together, drop me a line :thumbsup:
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    Half-cock is not a safety

    LOL! What an understatement. :grin: I gotta tell ya' guys, when I came back to the forum after some time away it didn't take me long to see that some things never change. There's both good and bad in that :grin: I was happy to see some of the old names still around, and took note that others...
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    Half-cock is not a safety

    I had my flintlock all loaded up, primed, and ready to fire when the range officer called for a cease fire. I got his attention and let him know I was hot and asked for the go-ahead to fire the shot. With his nod of approval, I pulled the set trigger and then the main. Nothing happened. So I...
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    My first Flintlock arrived!!!

    Doc, it's too bad you can't muster up a little enthusiasm :grin: Congratulations on your new rifle!
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    hand made powder horn ?

    Track of the Wolf, the Gun Shoppe, and other vendors carry hand made horns... but you'll pay for them. If you're going to pay good money for one, I like the recommendations of the posts (above) that had them made to order to get one custom fit to you. But I suggest you give making your own a...
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    SIGHT SHADER

    I've faced a similar problem with a more modern design gun and used electrical tape to build an expedient shade for the front sight. The black tape doesn't look quite so bad but the recoil and blast from the first shot pretty much turned the tape into a wad of plastic. At the same match I saw...
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    Chambers' Silver / Virgina Rifle Kit

    I'm thinking of taking the plunge and doing my first kit build. Chambers's kits come highly recommended but at least one of his kits had some problems: Read About it Here Now, if a body knows what he is doing he can overcome these kinds of things, but I'm not sure I want to wrestle with them...
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    tip curtiss kit

    Karwelis, does the stock come with the patchbox already inlet into the stock and the dovetails cut on the stock and box lid?
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    New to Flintlocks

    I'll take this opportunity to shamelessly plug the NEW & UNFIRED .54 flintlock GPR I have posted for sale in the classifieds. If you decide a GPR is for you, take a look at that one.
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    Lyman Great Plains rifle

    BrownBear, maybe I'm lost but I can't track down the metric Hot Shot nipples. Are they made by TC? Or are these the Knight Red Hot nipples?
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