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    Hello the Fire!!

    Somebody musta left an opening in the Job-Johnnie circle. Welcome. Another one who shoots that dirty and unreliable black powder. When ya gonna git your carcass back up this way?
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    Poorboy style Flintlock

    Donny, If having a butt plate on a rifle all that important? I built several Schimmels. My personal one has no butt plate. Built it 20 years ago. It shoulders nicely and the butt wood has held up well. Several years ago a buddy from Florida spent some time up here. I took him to the range...
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    Poorboy style Flintlock

    Mike, One of the earliest settlements in the Carolina mountains was what is now Winston-Salem. Founded by Moravians. There is a book on The Bethlehem Oil Mill. I picked up a copy some years back when we went through the old oil mill. The book describes how workers/craftsman were shuttled...
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    Pioneer arms mule ear lock

    Bowfish, I have one of Bernie's mule ear locks on my GPR that was originally a flinter. If you want a neater looking installation buy a steel flash cup for it. I used a Dremel tool to cut the steel flash cup to match the lock.
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    Poorboy style Flintlock

    Stumpkiller, >When you think about it, the time and material to make a barrel and lock <snip>< By the time of the Revolution few gunsmiths were hand forging their own barrels. There is an area of Berks County, PA along the Wyomissing Creek that began production of barrels in numbers between...
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    Were barrels "freshened" in pre-colonial times?

    Lodgekiller, Records on the Hopewell Furnace in Berks County PA show that a gunsmith from the city of Reading would periodically visit the "iron plantation" and repair any guns that required repairs. This gunsmith visited other villages and iron furnaces on what might be viewed as working...
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    GOEX-PINNACLE POWDER?

    Woody, It still kinda Winter up here. It will be 3 or 4 weeks before I get to the range with it and the chronograph.
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    GOEX-PINNACLE POWDER?

    Rebel, I had the .45 TVM flinter out in the yard this morning with the Pinnacle Powder. Temperature at 30 degrees. Used crushed Pinnacle as a prime in the lock. Had about 40 grains of Pinnacle 3F in the bore with a folded cloth cleaning patch as a wad. Here in the city they don't like me...
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    GOEX-PINNACLE POWDER?

    Bob, Both are based on ascorbic acid with potassium nitrate. I want to see if there is any difference in velocity between the two that would make the Black Mag 3 more desireable even at it's higher price. Cabellas, at their Hamburg, PA store gets $29.99 for a pound of Black Mag 3. I have no...
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    GOEX-PINNACLE POWDER?

    Bob, You may not get a response to your e-mail to Goex right away. They are off to a shoot. Two weeks ago the big brown truck dropped off a box direct from Minden. Inside was several pounds of the Pinnacle Powder and a few cans of some experiments with black powder. The Pinnacle does indeed...
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    How do u scrape?

    Zoni, For rolling the little edge on a hard steel scraper nothing beats a wrist pin from an automobile engine. If you find one of those wrist pins grab it. I should also point out that if one uses a scraper on a curly maple stock take care on the fore end portion of the stock. Angle the...
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    Chrome-lined bore?

    Zonie, When that barrel was handed to me and I had looked at it under the microscope I hauled on up to the corporate research library. Dug up a book on electroplating that went into hydrogen embrittlement. Then found a tech paper published by the Canadiamn military on chrome plating of...
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    Chrome-lined bore?

    rb, The rifle in question came from New Jersey. The shooter who blew it stated that he was using Pyrodex in it. I have shot Pyrodex in testing in my side-hammer rifle and in the mule ear lock rifle. How easily/quickly the Pyrodex ignites depends on how it has been stored. As Pyrodex goes...
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    Chrome-lined bore?

    Rat, Chrome lined ml barrels showed up in the early 1980's. Sile imported some half-stocks with chromed bores. The idea was that by chrome plating the bores the shooter would not have to worry about cleaning the rifle soon after shooting it. Trouble was that the patent breech plugs were not...
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    Aqua Fortis Recipe

    rootnuke, I looked at this in the lab some years back. When I stored certain batches of ferric nitrate solution they would form a yellow "crud" in the bottom of the bottles. Which I would discard knowing full well my cheap "Dutch" ancestors threw nothing away. Turned out that the yellow...
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    Aqua Fortis Recipe

    rootnuke, I have been working with ferric nitrate (nitrate of iron) for close to 25 years now. In 1984 I wrote an article for the Black Powder Report on stock staining with nitrate of iron. Commercial ferric nitrate crystals will not give the same color effect that you get with ferric nitrate...
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    209 Shotshell adapter for caplock ML's?

    Cayugad, I bought two of those 209 shot shell primer adaptors several years ago. Tried them on a Lyman Trade Rifle, percussion ignition. Some bp subs gave me ignition problems in this rifle. I thought the 209 primers might be the answer, especially when I played with the then new 777 powder...
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    Flints and frizzens

    Chet, Don't mess with the friizen. With my GPR locks the flint strikes the face of the frizzen about 5/8 of an inch above the bottom of the frizzen. The factory vent hole in the Lyman rifles is a bit small. I drill mine out a little larger. If the flint is striking low on the frizzen it...
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    Remington Caps

    Bob, The claim that the Remington caps are 33% hotter is correct. CCI advertises that their Magnum caps are 20% hotter than a standard percussion cap. Then Remington advertises their Black Powder cap is 33% hotter than a standard cap. What we see in these is simply an increase in the amount...
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    mule ear muzzleloader

    Old40Rod, The new mule ear lock just about dropped right into the GPR lock cavity. I had to remove just a bit of wood from a few spots to get it in just right. You unscrew the Lyman vent liner. The new nipple screws into the hole that previously held the vent liner. Bernie gives you a brass...
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