• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades
  • Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Search results

muzzle loading side side shotguns
L & R
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. M

    Conical bullets in a cap and ball revolver

    Eras Gone Although the store is closed until March 2nd.
  2. M

    Haggis Day

    Neeps aren't turnips, they are swede
  3. M

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Took the Colt Walker to the range today, but at 100 yards. Forgot to take my filler so just loaded 55gn Swiss 2f and a .457 ball. Sights were pretty much bang on so cracked on and rang steel from rest then had a go off hand. 4 out of 6 hit so I called it a day before we moved back to 200 and...
  4. M

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Royal Mail delivered a new toy today 😁
  5. M

    Where to buy flints in UK?

    Where do you find the local knappers? I am only a couple of miles from you.
  6. M

    New to black powder shooting

    Welcome from the UK. My personal recommendation for starting out in the dark arts would be a percussion gun. Flintlocks will be a much steeper learning curve, maybe steep enough to put you off for and we don't want that!
  7. M

    Smith Carbine percussion nipple dimensions

    The rifle hasn't been delivered yet. I am just trying to get ahead of the game.
  8. M

    Smith Carbine percussion nipple dimensions

    Quite possibly, however, knowing the dimensions will make life much easier, hence the question. Plus I am not sure I want to pay the premium for hewn from solid billet unobtanium with unicorn horn tools from Dyson's.
  9. M

    Smith Carbine percussion nipple dimensions

    Unfortunately not.
  10. M

    Smith Carbine percussion nipple dimensions

    Hi, Does anyone know the nipple thread size for the original Smith Carbine. I want to buy a new nipple but I don't know the dimensions. I do see some on the US websites but none of them want to ship to the UK for some reason. Thanks, Matthew
  11. M

    Hello from Suffolk, UK

    I don't believe we have met, but I am only 5 miles away so we should meet up sometime.
  12. M

    WANTED Smith Carbine - But in the UK

    I am trying to find out if anyone has a Smith Carbine for sale in the UK. I am in the process of getting a .50 Rifle variation so original preferred but replica would be considered. I see some for sale in the US but getting it shipped to the UK would be prohibitively expensive I believe. PM...
  13. M

    Hello from Suffolk, UK

    Welcome from another UK resident and proponent of the dark side.
  14. M

    James Dixon powder flask spring

    Thanks for the offer, however, I managed to find a YouTube video and ended up making my own spring. It's not perfect, but it does work.
  15. M

    Increased Prices of Replica Percussion Revolvers

    I would love to insist that for every new gun law that they propose the politicians must demonstrate how the existing laws, if applied properly, failed to cover the issue. Is shooting someone illegal? Yep. Did the perpetrator ignore that law? Yep. Ok, so what are you proposing that would have...
  16. M

    Haggis Day

    Then you need to try a different one. Every haggis recipe is different just like every sausage recipe is different.
  17. M

    Haggis Day

    Mmmm, haggis 😋 (and a wee dram)
  18. M

    ...and another 1847 Walker question

    For target work I load my Walker with 20gn Swiss 3F then fill the rest of the chamber with semolina or similar, then top with a.457 cast ball or occasionally Johnson and Dow bullet. I seem to remember that cylinders have a slight taper so unless you backfill with something the ball will be more...
  19. M

    To unload or not?

    Just a quick question for anyone who has been on a driven shoot with a muzzle loader. At the end of each drive do you just remove the caps and leave the shotgun loaded or fire off the loaded barrels? Never having been on a shoot with a muzzle loader I don't know what the normal practice is. I...
  20. M

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Thems the rules. I imagine that it is because should anything happen there is nobody to phone for help. Makes sense, however, it was somewhat annoying.
Back
Top