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  1. K

    Burned by USPS

    USPS Publication 52 has been brought up a few times in this thread as USPS justification for not shipping muzzleloaders or antiques. However, pgs 99 through 101 make it clear. Handguns are only the issue. See especially paragraphs 432.1 and 432.2. Handguns have the extra catch that even if...
  2. K

    Help IDing an old American longrifle

    How would you try and go about removing whatever's there? Worm puller?
  3. K

    Help IDing an old American longrifle

    Found this on the web....mine looks exactly like it except for the patchbox. And the initials match! https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/lot-106884.aspx
  4. K

    Help IDing an old American longrifle

    That would be an extremely tight fitting ramrod. Is that likely? It seems to be almost the entire inner diameter of the barrel itself.
  5. K

    Help IDing an old American longrifle

    Bob, thanks again. I took your instructions and used the ramrod to measure the length down the inside/outside of the barrel. I also used an endoscope on my cellphone app to peek inside. It looks like there's......something there. Not round like a ball, more like something wedged in. You can see...
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    Help IDing an old American longrifle

    Thank you all for the information so far. As I'm mostly a military arms collector, can you provide any good books or online starting points to begin learning about American longrifles? Mostly on the history and manufacturers side of things, less so on how they're made.
  7. K

    Help IDing an old American longrifle

    more photos....
  8. K

    Help IDing an old American longrifle

    Hi all, I just joined this forum because I'm trying to identify an old American longrifle. I don't know anything about it and I'm not well versed in this family of arms. It's about 48 cal at the muzzle, I assume converted from flintlock (?). It's long and aside from the two script initials...
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