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    Fearnaught

    Welcome from Pa.
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    Hello from Suffolk, UK

    Welcome from Pa.. USA
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    Large Siler Lock Jaws to Frizzen Alignment

    Back to straightening a cast steel flint hammer. I am not a believer of bashing stuff w/hammers , and or using heat which can ruined the tensile structure of cast metal. I break more stuff w/hammers than I fix. (laughing)....I've had huge success tweeking flint and percussion hammers...
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    can I flame blue lock?

    If you're dead set on doing the bluing , polish up the parts , and while doing the polishing , wear a pair of those cheap cotton gloves to eliminate skin oil from touching w/fingers. Get some Brownell's OXPHO Blue liquid. Just wipe it on a time or two. More times it's applied , the bluer it...
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    Got to shoot my .36 today.

    You have done well.
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    How Deadly is a Flintlock Rifle…

    YUP !.................Ok ,........I admit , I didn't watch the movie , and just tried to answer the question. My apologies to anyone offended.
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    I have this barrel.🤔

    Ok........here's another opinion for the can. Since I've played with cobbled up pistols before , I would make one cobbled up rifle out of it. I have a Jukar barrel in my shop just now from a sort of long rifle that looks like it was perhaps never cleaned by the owner's son that has ADD , or...
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    Last of the Mohicans Rifle

    Last of the Mohican rifle......Just now I'm jammed up with health issues , and with a sick Wife. Ever since Covid came , and it's aftermathe of problems , my wants , and desires are on hold. The Mohican rifle project and a smooth long rifle project , sit waiting by my workbench. All I can...
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    Large Siler Lock Jaws to Frizzen Alignment

    Don't think I remember any scratch built gun , that didn't need parts "tuning". Is what it is. Simple fit and finish. Git-er-done !
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    How Deadly is a Flintlock Rifle…

    The effectiveness of Flintlock guns in the hands of those that won the rights to live in North America is pretty much self explainitory. You don't have to look too far in American history to see how effective the weapons of the day were. Read about the F and I war actions of Brit. Gen. Edw...
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    How do you stabilise your rifle for load testing/sighting in?

    Before mechanical rests , I used to be the transporter of the sand bags to Dad's shooting bench. In the 1950's , sand bags were the stabilizes of the day. We hunted groundhogs in summer at long distance w/ special rifles , and the sand bags would work on fence post tops , and car fender alike.
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    .45 Round Ball Water Test

    Good test , solid result. Bullet placement will enhance the result , as always.
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    Odd results; bench vs. offhand shooting

    Before shooting from a bench , test the bench to check it's stability. Got fooled once at a local range. Found what looked like a solid bench , but pushed on the bench top w/one finger repeatedly , and the bench had a front to back oscillation , that was almost undetectable. Cost me 5...
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    Gun safety

    I kept myself out of trouble by using accepted ways of loading and shooting. I even cheated , and used modern plastic wads , some times with excellent success. One suggestion is , use the thinest over shot wads , as thicker wads tend to make holes in the shot cloud as a thick wad will...
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    Fusil De Chasse Style Rifle

    What a fine rifle you built. ........... Couple years ago , I built a .58 long rifle for a fellow to use in the Pa. late season flint deer hunt. Put a modified Johnson tang peep sight on it 'fer him , as he requested. Sighted it in at the range , and was very impressed how it grouped beyond...
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    Gun safety

    Also , any time you fire one barrel , uncap the unfired one , and run the ramrod down on the remaining loaded barrel to make sure the load is still where you left it , when you last loaded it. This is a safety check many forget. If one barrel is fired repeatedly , the unfired one's load...
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    Hello

    Welcome from Pa.
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    New Member from Wisconsin

    Welcome from Pa.
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    New Member, Old Fan

    Welcome from Pa.
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    Maintaining stock with carving ?

    Meby 50 yrs. ago , I quit using white residue wax on everything. Ya wax your rifle , go to a shoot on a warm day , and the white wax begins to ooz and dry out of any orafice it's been put into. Soooo......Found Minwax "Special Dark" finishing wax. Lowes has it , and some hdw, stores , too...
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