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    another hand gonne question

    Why was a big ring on some models of Hand Gonnes? It is such a simple device I can't figure out the ring!
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    Handgonne timeline

    What would be a ball park time for the development of the handgonne?
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    Skirmish Powder

    The only local place around me who sells black powder only sells one brand of powder each year. This year they have Skirmish Powder. Has any body used this powder for shooting lead balls? It is all I can get local now.
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    Cleaning my Brown Bess

    I was at an educational event last week where I shot twenty stout blank loads for the student each day. I tried a new way to clean my Bess at the end of the day. I tapped a tooth pick in the touch hole and I poured water from my canteen in the barrel, I stopped up the muzzle with a finger. I...
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    Ferguson Rifle demo at King's Mountain National Park!

    On Saturday after 11 AM, I will be doing my Ferguson Rifle demonstration at the National Park. I agreed to do this for the local Sons of the American Revolution. I do not need much of an excuse to go to King's Mountain! Ricky Roberts
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    Spout tip for new plastic cans

    Flintlock Inc has solved the problem. Drill a 3/8ths hole in the plastic lid and screw in their tip.
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    I need some cannon help!

    First off I am not a cannon owner but a good friend of mine has aged out of the cannon business and he has a couple pieces. So I am asking all you cannon folks for your sage advice. He has an original Lyle Gun. Steel barrel made by Hawley Smith Machinery Co, Croton Falls, NY serial number 145...
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    More smoothboring today

    Before June Friendship the groups from my #1 smoothbore my North Star west Light Dragoon Carbine started to spread out. I knew it was time to re shim the barrel. My first attempt at a new type shim job produced tight groups 18 inches low. back to the drawing board. My second attempt at a new...
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    My best ever 25 yard target with my Bess

    This was at Fall Friendship. Jethro, Jesse and myself had just finished the Widowmaker Big Honking Flintlock Musket match. After 17 shots in the woodswalk we walked up the hill to behind the Block House to shoot some smoothbore paper targets. At the June shoot Jethro shot the winning score on...
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    King's Mountain national battlefield

    Earlier this week I would have announced my Ferguson Rifle demonstrations at King's Mountain this coming weekend during the battle's anniversary. However as King's Mountain is a national park it is closed.
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    Cornwallis invades North Carolina!

    I do not look at horoscopes if I did I am sure Saturday's would have told me not to go out of the house or handle any Flintlocks! I was at Latta Plantation for a reenactment of the battle of Charlotte in 1780, Lord Cornwallis short invasion of North Carolina. I had a Ferguson Rifle demonstration...
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    I shot my Light Dragoon Carbine at 50 yards

    I warned you all this one would not be pretty! For my first three shots I aimed dead center using my 25 yard sight picture. This is the group at 7 o'clock in the white. If I was a liar I would say the two shots in the black were my next two shots. This was not the case It took me five shots off...
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    Shot my Light Dragoon Carbine today

    This morning I took my North Star West Light Dragoon Carbine to the range. I did not shoot this much before spring Friendship and I did not shoot it much while I was there. So I wanted to wring this musket out at 25 yards on paper. I wanted to nail down my 25 yard sight picture. To this end I...
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    I had to puch the extreme BS button on the last mountain men show

    I dang near Elvised my TV! They showed the new mountain man living all alone by himself in a Tipi.Back when muzzle loading was all mountain man I spent several years in an 18 foot Cheyenne lodge. When they pointed the camera at his tipi you could plainly see the inside of the smoke flaps were...
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    Ferguson rifle stuff

    This is the only picture of me loading my Fergie in the prone position. It was taken last weekend. As it is a Flintlock Rifle I think it will be safe to post this here.
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    Gun talk on Swamp people

    On this show they call a Thompson Center type of caplock rifle a musket and tonight they called a .270 bolt action rifle a Sniper Rifle. Who writes this stuff?
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    My first rifle target in 10 months

    Do to a bad shoulder I have not shot a rifle in a long time. Back in July a got a store bought shoulder, last week I was given permission to shoot my lightest rifle gun. Today I hit the range with my Squirrel gun. I shot at a few gongs and then put up this target. My first shot was high and I...
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    smoothbores on a TV show

    Last week I was watching Into The West, at the start of the show they opened up a crate of brand new Brown Bess saddle ring carbines to trade to the Indians. I can't recall much else about the program except that crate full of brand new Bess Carbines!
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    Friendship pictures

    For some reason I can't post a bunch of pictures on the same post. Here is a picture of primitive camp from the first weekend. You can actually see two tipis in this photo this shows the changes in the primitive camps over the last thirty years. Back then Mountain Man was the rage of muzzle...
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    Diamondback Powder for Flintlocks

    Has anybody tried this powder in Flintlocks? Prime included.
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