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    Spring clamp

    I saw this on that auction site and had to have it. Works like a charm and is marked O :)
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    Powder fouling

    At a clay shoot on Sunday and my percussion gun started to misfire on the right. I had to pull the nipple and trickle some powder down behind the load to make it light. This happened twice before I gave up. When I got it home I dropped a camera down before and after cleaning... Maybe I got...
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    TRS Wall gun

    My wall gun is all original apart from a rubbish pintle swivel. I just got the Rifle Shoppe version which I believe to be a copy of the swivel on de Witt Bailey's gun. It doesn't fit, it looks like it has been trodden on by a large ungainly horse. I just gave it to a local blacksmith to be...
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    New spanner

    Wheel lock project moves on another tiny step, I now have a spanner to wind it with :thumbsup:
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    Pistols by Sykes of Oxford

    New toys c1804, 45 calibre and hardly been used, springs and things are all firm and tight I don't usually buy pairs because they tend to be expensive, but I was born and raised in Oxford so they caught my eye... :thumbsup:
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    Blunderbusses

    I can't stop buying blunderbusses. It's like Bleeding Gums Murphy and his Faberge Egg addiction. Wonder how many Feltwad has :hmm: :grin:
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    Santa's lists

    Santa definitely had me on his "Extra-good" list this year :thumbsup:
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    Spanners

    I need a wheel lock spanner and they seem hard to find. The Rifle Shoppe lists them but no pictures and I would like a fancy one :confused: Does anyone know what they look like? Is there anywhere else than might ship a bit sooner?
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    George Wallis of Hull 1731-1803

    Hadn't been to the Sporting Clay Shoot for a couple of months but Sunday morning I find myself in a percussion competition and first shot of the day counts. Managed 21/25 so not in the prizes, but it there is still the flintlock shoot nxt month. Driving home I realised I needed a 12 gauge...
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    Baker rifle lock

    I haven't been buying much lately so when my permanent e-bay Baker search came up with a spare lock and it having the alternative cock... I checked my wife was not standing behind me and pressed Buy-It-Now :idunno: It doesn't fit but who cares, it is 200 years old :rotf:
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    Help, brain fade

    The metal skate, chained to the field carriage which you can pop under the wheel and slide down hill. Stops the cannon over running the horses without wearing out the wheel rim. I said it was called a drug bat, but apparently web searching has proven me wrong. After a couple of TIA's I am quite...
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    First loser

    I went to our ML clayshoot yesterday and discovered I was in a shoot off for the annual percussion competition I did back in September. I had fluked a 22/25 and Rick must have been having a bad day when he shot it last month because Rick always wins and he had only managed to equal me. I could...
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    Sawn off wheely

    Estimated 2-3 thousand sterling, bit much for a fixer upper :thumbsup: LOT NO. 502 Rare late seventeenth century North German wheel lock sporting rifle, by Nicolaus Coers, Braunswerg, circa 1680, with octagonal sighted shortened barrel rifled with seven grooves - stamped over...
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    New purchase, Blunderbus

    Poor old TB1943 got slated when he bought one. I phoned in a reserve bid of £1100 for this yesterday and it went for £900 so I guess it's probably mine... You may now tell me what is wrong with it. Garden ornament? Made in Turkmenistan? :surrender:
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    Oops! no trigger finger

    Accidentally sliced the tip of my trigger finger a couple of weeks ago. Well on the way to mended, all stitched back together and still pink, but I faced my monthly ML clayshoot all bandaged up. My auxilliary trigger finger performed well until we got to the fast, left to right, crossing bird...
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    Cheating didn't work

    Flintlock ignition was superb, weather was fine but I couldn't hit a barn in the butt at 10 paces. I scored a miserable 5/25 which is probably 5 better than I deserved :rotf: Either the gun doesn't fit or it isn't shooting where I think it's shooting. I need some help here :confused: Just...
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    Cheating at ML clays

    I always forget when it's ML clay competition time, five stands, five shots on each stand. You get two tries on consecutive months, once with flint and once with caplock. I'm currently second in percussion and have yet to shoot the flint. Rick always beats me. He cheats using a "fill the sky...
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    Original Baker rifle balls

    Got me some leather wrapped Baker balls from the Percy Tenantry stash :thumbsup: He has more for sale if anyone wants a piece of history rattling around in their Baker patch box. They cost GBP30 each plus shipping. I don't usually buy lead at over a million pounds a ton, but these are a bit...
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    Jacqueline shoots clays

    My wife's sister came ML clayshooting this morning and I am under strict instructions to take her again next month. If you can download a 2.7Mb movie you will see why :hatsoff: She got the safety lecture and when an ounce and a quarter over 50 nearly knocks her over the gun stays safe. Well...
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    The Hall rifle

    Got me a Harpers Ferry Hall in original 1826 flint Everyone who photographs a Hall goes straight for the pop up breeching, so I thought I'd be different :thumbsup: :rotf:
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