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    Dental X-ray Lead

    I stopped by my former dentist office and asked them about it. They have already converted to digital x-rays and don't use lead.
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    Fredericksburg/Rappahanock Forge Muskets

    Ditto on the lock. In one of the photographs it does appear that one of the guns front trigger guard has an acorn final, same as the Bess. Both guns have been used extensively and one gun has a huge touch hole.
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    Continental Army musket

    So, you live in Fredericksburg, Va. The Brown Bess would be more accurate for a foot soldier either as militia or Continental line. An English fowling piece would be ok. Rifles were mostly a Mountain county weapon of the militia. I have a Pedersoli Brown Bess and now a Chamber's Virginia Rifle...
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    Volley gun

    I'm missing something here. How does the charge in the pan set off all the barrels?
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    Broken Sear Spring

    My sear spring arrived from VTI parts a supplier of Pedersoli parts. It took all of 5 minutes to reassemble the lock using the method described above. It took two hours of frustration and breaking the spring by the old method. Thanks!!!
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    Broken Sear Spring

    I took my Pedersoli Brown Bess lock apart for the first time tonight to polish all the inside surfaces. It was as expected never polished well. Everything was going well until I was trying to reassemble the parts. When I tried to reassemble the sear pivot screw it of course would not go in...
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    does any one shoot 150 200 yrds

    Can anyone cite a confirmed kill past 250 yards during the American Revolution? I do believe General Washington was very good at Propaganda and Intelligence. I say those so called reports are false or at best one lucky shot. Of course if you are on a hill top and shoot down into a town at a...
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    blank load detonation

    The previous post raises a Question I have had. If the touch hole is drilled so that it is close to center of say a 110Gr charge, how would it burn? All at once? In two directions at the same time? Or only from the center to the front? Did the touch hole allow a release of pressure as it...
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    Breech Plug

    Did you build the gun? The reason I ask is, because if you built the gun like some of us have, you instantly become that qualified gunsmith. As I told a friend of mine when I was having problems with my sights, I said, "I just happen to know the gunsmith who built this gun." I had problems...
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    Firing shot in a rifled barrel?

    I have done this with my modern day fowler, the Remington 870 with a slug barrel on it. To my suprise, I did not hit the target with a single pellet at 25 yards. Put the smooth barrel on and it was a tight pattern in the center. Here is my understanding of what is happening. The shot and the...
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    cleaning longrifles

    I just came back from the Dewitt-Wallace museum in Willamsburg, Virginia. They have an extremely good collection of orginal firearms currently on display including Pocket pistols, pistols, rifles, blunderbusses, muskets etc.. What is interesting is that they have about 10 Brown Besses and about...
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    Tom Fuller flints

    So now you understand one cause of the American Revolution. Brittish America was forced to export all its goods to England and then Brittish Americans were forced to import the goods they wanted from England.
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    Dixie's English Flints

    My last order from TOW a few months ago looked like the lot you have. They were supposed to Tom Fuller flints. Now I am not sure.
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    Shooting in The Wind

    Thanks Guys. As it turned out, the weather was better than forecasted( These meteorologists and Al Gore are the guys who are sure of Global Warming but they can't get the weather right two days out). Anyway, it was a little windy and I shot mostly off-hand for the first time and hit a bulls-eye...
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    Shooting in The Wind

    Now that Fall is finally here in the East, so is the wind. What is your wind limit where you will not shoot if it is too windy? I was going to go out this weekend but they are calling for 10-15 mph winds, some gusts higher. Will I just be burning good powder and ball?
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    Powder charge in Rice barrel

    Here is an update to the suggestions given. I did a little of all. I raised the rear sight a little and tried different powder charges. Yesterday, despite a 5-7mph wind I went shooting. The target blew over at one point. I set the target at the same 62 yards away as it was the last time. The...
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    How many coats of Tru-Oil?

    I put on 5 coats of LMF sealer and then 3 coats of LMF Finish. Then I sanded it down and put another coat of finish on. It came out smooth as glass. It's a different product, but I think the LMF Sealer cuts down on the 10+ coats of finish. Goo Gone works the best for me for removing the finish...
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    Powder charge in Rice barrel

    Thanks for all the responses! I will try some of the advice given.
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    Powder charge in Rice barrel

    The barrel is the standard swamped barrel that comes with the Jim Chambers Mark Silver Virginia Rifle. 42' inch .62 caliber. I used calipers on it and it is .62. My main purpose is to hunt with it. My front sight is made of coin silver and I have filed it down while in the field, but I think...
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    Powder charge in Rice barrel

    I just started shooting my newly finished Jim Chambers Virginia rifle. It is a .62 caliber. I was shooting a .600 PRB with Pillow ticking and 75 Gr. FFFG. The instructions in the kit said that not to use more powder than the caliber of the ball. Is this just a suggestion or is their limitations...
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