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    RWS #11 In stock

    A local LGS has plenty of RWS #11 in stock for $50 for a tin of 250 caps, high but not at scalper prices I've seen.
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    New Uberti 1861 Navy from Midway. Buyer Beware!

    I should think that for the premium price Taylor's is charging over Midway that they would be doing "dealer prep" and either fixing boo boo's or more often sending the rejects back to U or P. They would learn not to send marginal or returned pistols to Taylor's. Midway makes no representation...
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    New Uberti 1861 Navy from Midway. Buyer Beware!

    I've purchased five C&B revolvers from Midway in the last seven years with identical results. Boxes, both Pietta and Uberti, are not up to standards we are used to, i.e. Smith & Wesson blue boxes with metal reinforced corners. Foreign packagers and shippers do not enjoy the same high standard...
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    What do I have here?

    Amazing pieces! If Walther or Hammerli made ML Olympic competition pistols they would look like this! Bomar rear sights, heel rests, trigger stops and flintlocks. Artistic stylists might call them steampunk.
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    .36 Colt Navy that powerful??????

    We all extoll the virtues of our favorite smoke pole, ignoring numbers. That's OK. We shoot for fun. Back in the days when Dirty Harry's "most powerful handgun in the world" was touted as adequate to dispatch anything, a realist observed that it was ballistically inferior to the humble...
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    How many years Muzzleloading experience?

    48 years Heavily diluted and interrupted by unmentionables, golf, motorcycles, airplanes, boats and the big distraction....kids and grandkids, but all good.
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    Gun from Civil War found in trash can at Gettysburg Walmart

    "Journalists" fathom very little. News stories only report the general, sensationalist nature of happenings. After a career in energy related engineering I claim a better than average understanding of its issues. I am appalled at the ignorance and disinformation spewed about. Aviation...
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    Hello from Arkansas.

    Welcome from a transplanted Razorback in Texas, born in Fayetteville, grew up in Russellville. Visit Ark often, but at my age I don't recognize the place. It used to be truly remote and rural. No more. Too many people and WalMart. Still pretty nice.
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    SOLD Flintlock for Sale

    First, let me say that I'm not interested in buying the rifle, but am interested in knowing about the wood. EcoRover's rifle has exquisitely straight grained wood, could be anything, but the OP's has figured wood ahead of the lock area. The lock area, wrist and buttstock are pretty straight...
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    Western Arms Corp. 1860 Army

    Imagine what the pawnbroker paid the owner, probably half or less what you paid, a sad reality of pawn shop commerce. Pawnbrokers also know that specialty stuff will age a long time in the display case while plastic black stuff flies out the door.
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    TC Hawken Single Trigger Kit

    I worked my own single trigger "conversion" by smoothing out the single trigger pull. The basic problem is the coiled sear spring inside a channel cast into the lockplate. It works, but is a mess to smooth out. The coils scrape and bind on the investment cast surface in the hole and T/C put...
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    closed Frizzen

    Easy way to diagnose a rebounding frizzen is to simply position your thumb near the end of its travel to see if it is struck by a full arc swing. It might sting a bit but you only need do it a couple of times to determine full opening. If the frizzen still ends up resting against the flint...
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    sprue up or down

    Shadowgraph photos of supersonic projectiles reveal that every discontinuity on the leading edge generates a shock wave which causes no harm as long as it's spinning symmetrical about the bore centerline. A spinning sprue on the front would make a rotating shock wave. A spruce on the back side...
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    Greetings from Ozark, Arkansas

    Hello from Texas. Grew up near you in Russellville. Get back as often as I can. Nice country!
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    An interesting 32 caliber deer hunt

    Not remotely close to 30-30 WCF. 1,000 fps faster with a 170 gr vs 110 gr bullet. That said a high speed (300 fps) razor blade (archery broadhead) will bring down a deer.....eventually as they bleed out. I have eviscerated deer with unmentionables only to watch them run away to fall over at a...
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    Loose barrel wedge

    Work like a machinist, aware of what a wedge is called to do. First fit barrel to stock and eyeball the alignment of slots. Ford and aft alignment doesn’t matter as the tang holds the barrel longitudinally. You only need big enough longitudinal slots so that the wedge is free axially leaving...
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    Rain

    The straight cut machine threads on a nipple are not water proof, unlike taper sealed pipe threads. That said, a petroleum carrier based anti seize compound should inhibit dripping non-pressurized water a bit. The carrier is a light grade emulsified grease. All my percussion caps have very...
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    New Member from Arkansas

    Welcome from a NWA native transplanted to Texas.
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    L&r lock on tc

    After all the fore and aft adjustments, are you happy with the vertical position of the touch hole, i.e. is it in a good "sunset" position adjacent to the pan? The other question I have is trigger pull. I have a dead stock T/C FL Hawken that I have worked over a lot to improve the non-set...
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    Cylinder gap

    Most of my Italian colt replicas have 0.000 in. gap as the spring loaded hand never releases forward tension until the hammer falls, allowing varying gaps. I would call it spring loaded slop instead of gap. That said, they all work just as Samuel Colt intended
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