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    attaching shot charger to shot pouch

    I recently bought a Irish style shot charger without the bag, just the charger. I want to make my own bag but am not sure how the bag attaches to the charger. Any help>
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    rear sight for lyman great plains rifle

    I want to replace the adjustable rear sight on my great plains rifle with a fixed sight. I would like to find a sight with minimal work required. Does anyone make one that will tap in easily?
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    need Paterson spring

    Any know where I can get a mainspring for a uberti colt Paterson? Hard to find
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    nipples for numrich rifle

    I am looking for some new nipples for my old numrich arms swival breech rifle. Anyone know where i can get them.
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    cylinder base pin lube

    What is a good grease or lube to put on cylinder base pins.
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    repeating rifle 1848-51?

    While looking through the 1848 to 1851 inventories of Fort Union trading post I noticed that each year they list a repeating rifle. The 1849 inventory say" 1 repeating rifle (16 shot)". What do you think they are refering to?
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    source for point blankets

    A museum has asked me to locate historically accurate point blankets for a display. Since english mills have closed down, has anyone picked up the slack to make point blankets.
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    Hiding in buffalo carcass?

    There is a story of a man who hid from Indians in a buffalo carcass. I cannot remember where or when I first heard that. Is that from a work of fiction, movie or some primary source material. Anybody know?
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    chain fire

    Today we use special wads of\r grease to keep our percussion revolvers from chain firing. How did they prevent that when perc. revolvers were the latest tech. I doubt they would grease them especially on the southern plains were they would soon have a greasey mess at the bottom of holsters on...
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    aging wood

    Just made a new sawbuck pack saddle and want to make the wood look like its been around for a while. Any ideas on how to give the wood an aged appearance.
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    loose front sight

    On my full stock flintlock hawken, the front site is loose. The whole thing slides back and forth in the barrels dovetail. What is the best way to tighten. Do I use a punch on the lip of the dovetail and tap it a bit or do I do something to the piece the site is attached to. The site won't...
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    Leman trade guns

    I am looking for someone that makes a top notch reproduction of a Leman trade gun, in flintlock. I looked at TVMs but they seem to be a bit generic and not a real copy of an old piece.
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    Walker colts

    In Susan Magoffins journal of her trip west in 1846, she describes the small arsenal in her tent while in new Mexico. She mentions double barrel shotgun, belt pistols, holster pistols and colts new six barreled pistol. I don't believe a walker would have been available yet. Her husband was a...
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    remington trigger pull

    I replaced the stiff mainspring in my rem. revolver and it is much easier to cock, but now I find the trigger pull seems much to light. Takes very little pressure to set it off. Can the trigger pull be adjusted or is it directly related to the main spring pressure on the trigger.
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    charge for a 1/2 pounder

    What would be a good powder charge for a 1/2 pounder cannon? I am refering to a good blank charge with enough boom and smoke to impress.
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    point blankets

    Now that Witney mills are no longer making point blankets, does anyone know of a source for good quality, 100% wool, historicaly accurate point blankets?
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    galvanized barrel bands

    Is there any way to treat these bands, other than painting, to give them a more authentic look.
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    shattered caps causing jams

    I like to shoot my Uberti Colt Walker and Paterson but have a problem with the shattered percussion caps wedging between the cylinder and frame. Any suggestions? How do those percussion cowboy action shooters keep this from happening?
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    alcohol and beeswax

    Anyone know of a reason to not put alcoholic beverages in a beeswax lined gourd. Other than the taste of the beeswax, I can't think of any adverse health effects.
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    loading from the horn

    I have been shooting muzzleloaders for almost 30 years and know the danger of loading from the horn. I always use a powder measure. I understand the reason for this but I have never seen or heard of a powder charge igniting from a spark or smoldering ember in the barrel. Have any of you?
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