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    Hawken Facts

    I'm thinkin that during their heyday they bought just about all of it and were more assemblers than builders.
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    hunting loads and blown patches

    Don't matter now. I swapped out the .50 for a .54 round ball barrel. I think the nipple I had on the .50 was a hot shot nipple. It had a small hole near the top anyway.
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    The "Myth" of Cylinder Swapping?

    Different times, different mindset. Remember after a battle there would be plenty more to choose from. Just go pick'em up. No fees, no paperwork, no taxes, no waiting period. :grin:
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    The "Myth" of Cylinder Swapping?

    Maybe but I've read accounts of where they did. I know if I was in a running battle I'd want the next pistol as fast as I can get it. I don't think I'd want to try to re holster in a hurry while on a galloping horse. I'd drop it and try to find it later. Guns would be there for the taking by the...
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    From MS

    Always good to see another Ms. boy. Whereabouts in southern Ms.?
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    The "Myth" of Cylinder Swapping?

    OK, lets look at this a different way. As far as the C.W. is concerned the main ones carrying and actually using revolvers were cavalrymen. Now I dunno how many of you ride but I can't see me riding a horse and trying to swap out cylinders. I can see me firing a pistol until it's empty, dropping...
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    Getting Rid of Stamping

    I used a dremel with a small grinding wheel on my CVA barrel to soften up the stampings and then filed. I still widened the flat just a tad and there's a light depression where the stampings were(they were really deep)You can't see the depression but you can feel it. You can see the widened flat...
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    Hawken Facts

    I'd like to see some pics of Tryon trade rifles.
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    hunting loads and blown patches

    That's funny right there. :rotf: I used the same nipple for over 20 years and never fired a round ball out of it. Yeah, it needed changing out when I swapped barrels to a .54 but it blew the hammer to half cock when it was new so I kept my charges to 100 grs. or less.
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    hunting loads and blown patches

    I used 90 grs. in my .50 Investarms with conicals. Have used 100. 110 blows the hammer back to half cock.
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    61 navy

    The grip frames do interchange. They even interchange with the 73 SAA which uses the same frame as the navy. Grips are finished on the frame so if you buy grips separately they will have to be fitted no matter who makes them.
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    Short starter ideas????

    You've never tried to start a .530 ball with a .020 patch have you? Can't do it with the ramrod, not in my rifle anyway.
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    BP cartridge in ML season

    The H&R Handi Rifle is a better seller with cartridges like the 45-70, 450 Marlin and 35 Whelen. Also it's now legal to hunt a baited field as long as you can't actually see the bait. :shake: :shake: :shake: Only good thing about it is sales of cheatlines are waaay down.
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    1860 Army problems.

    If you use Loctite get the blue not the red unless you never want to disassemble it again.
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    Full stock rifle suggestion

    Dang that sure is purdy Zonie. Only thing wrong with it is it ain't mine. :grin:
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    what to buy?.......

    It's a kit but you won't find a better price...
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    will this barrel work

    Excam is just the importer. The prof. has it right. You will have to widen the slot under the snail considerably. I have a TC breechplug in my Investarms mated to a CVA barrel with the Investarms tang. The slot under the snail is twice as wide as the Investarms. The hook may be a little loose in...
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    Quality Bowie

    Crazy Crow has knives and kits. :thumbsup:
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    to ladel or not?

    And how do you know what Zonie smells like in a pup tent? Inquiring minds want to know. :grin:
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    reccomend melter and mould

    Using stick on wheel weights my .530 balls mic at .529 out of a Lee double mold. :thumbsup:
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