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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    A few pictures from my visit about 2012 I really tried to get photos that showed how deep the parts were. Most photos are square from the side.
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    Bolek is running a course on building wheellocks.

    I signed up. The cost is reasonable I think. He supplies a newly-created digital set of plans and a private Facebook forum for participants. To work from Polish to English, his son is translating. The plans are designed to help understand the works and scale dimensions from proportion...
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    Operating model cannon - can we use old gunners' techniques?

    My club shoot small cannons as part of our muzzleloading competition. Some are competitive, some less so. Forum member heelerau will recognise these characters! I don't have a tube yet. But I would like to add something besides shooting scores on 25m targets. I want to understand the practice...
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    Wild inaccuracy with CVA .50

    I have been very annoyed to find I cant hit a bull in the bum with my CVA, since the old ticking I used for patches ran out. I am talking six to ten inch groups at 50m benchrest, with flyers! Yet I had some years ago got six of thirteen into five inches at 100m! I use too many rifles, so have...
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    New lock for Pedersoli Charles Moore 45

    I had a few problems with my Pedersoli Charles Moore 45 Percussion/ switch barrel and lock to 44 flint. I had just got the set trigger working, after using it for a few years as plain trigger, when the main set trigger spring broke. It was rusted. Then I bought a spare and while I was at it a...
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    Nipple vent size

    I love my Uberti 1858 Rem, but people nearby are getting a facefull of powder spit from the gun when I shoot it. I also was developing quite a callous in the hairy side of my trigger finger which I later realised came from that spit. I am using RWS no 1075 (like No 11) caps, 21gn PPP Wano...
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    Single set trigger - how early?

    The Gunsmith of Grenville County has a nice discussion of single set triggers and making them, but says only one or two he was aware of were used on American long rifles. Over on the FB Matchlock and Wheellock group, someone is asking when the first single set triggers were used. His friend, a...
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    German cheek stock plan?

    A while back someone had a plan with cross-sections for a German cheek type stock. Anyone remember where to find that? I have been watching Bolek post his work and think a cheek stock and wheellock with supplementary matchlock would be a great use for my Mortimer shotgun barrel, while the .54...
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    Thirty Years War cannon, Ceske Krumlov

    Eisenhammer asked for photos of cannon from this period, and I photographed some at Ceske Krumlov. These three bronze guns had two visible dates, two were the same at 1608 and the other 1644. You can see on the older two a five-petalled rose which is Rosenberg, the owners of the castle and town...
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    Artillery in the Styrian Armoury (16th-17thC)

    As requested by Eisenhammer, the guns and mortars I photographed in the Styrian Armoury in Graz, Austria. This armoury is brilliantly preserved with racks of all kinds of arms of the period, with accessories. However many of the cannon were transported to another distant city when invasion...
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    Pre-flintlock heaven

    You know where I just went... Pole arms Gonnes Matchlock muskets Large job lots of wheellocks Racked Puffers No, SERIOUSLY racked Puffers This was a lesson, folks. I took a couple hundred pictures, emphasising the depth views so that we have that thickness view that the...
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    Matchlocks in action at Australian M/L Championships

    These Japanese type snap-matchlock pistols shot very good scores in the Australian Nationals. Some camera club members came and took photos which got the firelocks between sparks and discharge. Photos by David Sargeant - I grabbed this photo on my phone of a matchlock in the racks. I...
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    Animal glue for authenticity?

    As people saw, I glued filler blocks into my CVA stock to fix an inletting problem. Checking the rules for the competitions I shoot, if I turn up at the world champs this repair would render me ineligible if I did not use animal glue or other old traditional method. Is there a source of...
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    CVA negligent discharges from inletting

    I was irritated when I bought my CVA Frontier rifle to find the hammer would not retain on full cock unless the trigger was already set. In my first competition I also had a negligent discharge as I raised the rifle after capping. This created an embarrassing hole in the roof over the shooting...
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    Convert Target revolver to fixed sights?

    I have a Uberti Remington 1858 with target sights. To compete properly in competition I need fixed sights, but its too much of a hassle to trade due to licensing inefficiency in our Police ($75 plus three months waiting). I learned a lesson - 'buying mood' is not the way to go gun shopping! I...
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    Are powder throwers safe with BP?

    Range rules at our muzzleloading club require to pre-measure charges. I have been using a Lee powder thrower, bought new, and did the EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BEFORE FIRST USE putting graphite powder in and working it through the container and measure. Recently I saw a reference to powder...
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    Are rifle barrel twists OK in handguns?

    I am thinking of building a flint pistol around a Green Mountain .54 rifle barrel I have. I have heard that pistol twists are quicker, but dont know if that has much effect. It would be for patch ball in target matches. One experienced shooter told me that their smoothbore flint pistols shoot...
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    CVA tumbler notch broken out: new part, recut or new lock?

    Yesterday my CVA .50 Hawken refused to stay on full cock. I pulled out the lock, cleaned and after a bit of testing, used a hand lens to see the tumbler full-cock notch has its edge broken away so it cannot retain the sear nose. Whats the go - new part, upgrade the lock or disassemble and re-cut?
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    Abused Colt 1860

    As I mentioned in someone else's thread, I was about ready to relegate my Colt 1860 to decorator status. But its become obvious people here know how to get them working better! I would appreciate your advice, because its a lovely piece of work with most of its original finish and deserves me...
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    Banning muzzloader hunting on cruelty grounds?

    Here in the fair state of Western Australia, the Police have for 18 months refused to issue muzzleloader licences for anything except target shooting. Their stated reason is that slow loading and bad sights make it unfit for purpose. I believe I was the last person to get an 'open' licence...
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