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  1. J

    Gloss or satin ?

    I'm trying to make up my mind here. So far I have this great looking railroad spike hawk head and a fancy curly Maple handle that I have stained with Minwax Wood Preserver in the Golden Oak color. I married the handle to the head with epoxy, but it will be completely covered by the hafting. I...
  2. J

    Carving patterns

    I can carve wood. I'm no Leonardo di Vinci, but I can generally carve pretty well. My problem is that I can't draw. Heck, the only thing that I can draw is flies. So, are there any patterns or pattern books out there that can help out a someone like me that just can't draw? I am looking...
  3. J

    What to use on buckskins to re-soften them?

    Well I finally got the stains on the front of my buckskins to where they aren't very noticable, but mow the leather (yes, it's real buckskin) is stiffer than it was before. I suspect that taking the stains out and recoloring the leather has washed out the oils in them, so what can I safely use...
  4. J

    Help with recoloring buckskin

    Here is the deal.... I have a buckskin shirt and pants that are in perfect condition except that I got a stain on the front of the shirt. In trying to clean the stain off I washed the color out of a large spot on the front. Well, the stain is gone, but it looks worse than it did with the stain...
  5. J

    Help with recoloring buckskin

    Oops sorry about the double post.
  6. J

    Why right hand rifling?

    Is there a reason that rifles all seem to have right hand rifling? Is it just convention or is there a reason for it? Are there any rifles out there with left hand rifling? I know that there are some centerfire pisols with left hand rifling, but every BP gun that I have seen has had right hand...
  7. J

    Cabellas .54 cal Hawken

    I bought a Cabellas .54 cal Traditional Hawken from the classifieds here and to tell you the truth I was pretty much disappointed with the condition of it. It was not advertised as a kit gun, which it obviously is and not done very well at all. The metal is nearly naked, the finish looks like it...
  8. J

    Trial Balloon going up!

    Here is my trial baloon. I have a book here "The American West" by Dee Brown that I really like a lot and that I want to share with you. Just let me know who is interested in reading this book and we will make up a list of say the first ten people to sign in on this. I'll send it to the first...
  9. J

    Homemade dye

    I have a little discoloration on my good (Sunday-go-to meetin') buckskins that I tried to scrub out. Now that I have the black mark to where it isn't noticable anymore I now have a light spot around the area that used to have the dark spot. Well, I though that I'd make up some dye using Pecan...
  10. J

    The Alamo Society 2007 Symposium

    Wow! That's all that I can say is Wow! What a great weekend, and I still have Sunday to rest up from it! I was invited on Friday to an informal shoot by a forum member, John L. Hinnant, at a private range where he is a member. The shoot was a prelude to this weekends activities that centered...
  11. J

    African waterhole

    I'm not real sure where I got this link, but I don't believe that it was from this forum. It is a camera permanently focused on a waterhole in Africa. Everyonce in a while an animal will show up and I like to visit now and then. It is pretty slow most of the time and you wont see herds and herds...
  12. J

    Kadooty, and such like items

    Please bear with a newbie here. There is a thread in another forum on this web site that got me to wondering. The thread had to do with someone looking for a spring loaded device for putting the exact same pressure on a shot/powder charge. It sems to me that this would work perfectly on the...
  13. J

    Your Basic Rookie Mistake

    I'm new at this front loading business and I order a powder horn. I'll need a powder horn right? O.K. I go through the web sites and find one that advertises an "economy model". Hey! Now that's just my cup of tea. I'm not only compulsive, but I'm cheap too. This will fit me to a "Tee". It come...
  14. J

    Now That's a Cannon!

    You say you like em big? Try this one on for size. It is the Tsar Puska, or Tsar Cannon. It's bore is 890 mm and is about 5.3 meters long. It is smooth bore and designed to shoot grapeshot. Built in the 16th century to protect the Kremlin from invading Mongols, it has never been fired according...
  15. J

    Fouling shots

    I'm new at this so please excuse me if I sound ignorant. It's because I am. I have a question about "fouling shots". When you go hunting, do you just plan on missing the first shot, shoot one off into the woods before you leave camp or does it maske that much difference at all?
  16. J

    New guy with questions

    Is it correct to say that the bore of a pistol is measured from groove to grove, as opposed to from land to groove or land to land? Is the correct ball size for a pistol the land to land measurement? Is the proper patch thickness for a pistol the size that fills the diference between the bore...
  17. J

    Another question from the new guy

    How do you orient the flint? I tried using juswt plain common sense, but I guess that common sense doesn't work too well with flintlocks. I am beginning to think that the flint is too long for this pistol. Firstly, I cannot put the frizen down and lower the hammer to half-cock. The flint rides...
  18. J

    Can anyone give me any information on this pistol?

    I posted this same message over on the pistol forum, but I thought that I'd give you folks a try as well. Any information at all would help. Even the fellow at the gunshop where I bought it was baffled, and he seems like a pretty knowledgable fellow. It's a 12 mm smoothbore flintlock. The...
  19. J

    Information on this pistol, anyone???

    It's a 12 mm smoothbore flintlock. The lockplate on the hammer side and barrel are heavily engraved and there is a little bit of engraving on the trigger guard and off side lock plate. All of the engraving is nicely done. The stock appears to be walnut. The stock, at the handle is checkered with...
  20. J

    O.K., What now Coach?

    I bit the bullet (although not all that hard) and am in the process of buying a flinlock. Now what will I need to get in order to make smoke and lead fly out of the end of the barrel? I'm sure that there are things that are absolutely necessary (powder, shot, patches, etc.) and other things that...
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