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    How to Checker a Hammer Spur?

    Anyone with any experience on how to checker a hammer spur? The top of the hammer spur on my L&R flintlock is smooth and can be a bit slippery, especially when decocking. I have a bit of experience checkering wood, but have never checkered metal. Any thoughts about lines per inch, diamond or...
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    Colorado Muzzleloader Projectile Conundrum

    Several years ago Colorado changed when one can use a roundball or conical for big game hunting. 40-50 caliber roundballs in the past were acceptable for deer and Pronghorn. My sidehammer caplock shoots a .433 roundball weighing about 120 grs. Worked perfectly on a forkhorn Muley buck 6 years or...
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    Renovating a Lost & Found Hawken

    A brief story first. During the 2016 Muzzle Loading big game season here in Colorado, one of my sons leaned his TC Hawken up against a tree during a rest break while hunting by himself and walked away from it. By the time he realized what he had done, he only had a general idea where it was...
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    Bore Out TC Breech Plug?

    I recently bought a .54 TC Hawken at a garage sale. It had been left loaded with a full charge for a number of years. I pulled the ball and powder, and surprisingly the powder still looked dry, and I was tempted to just flush out the barrel and call it good. However, curious minds wanted to know...
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    Re-locate Flint Touch Hole?

    I was given a flintlock rifle kit recently. It came from an estate - the grown children of the late owner are not gun people and they just wanted to find a good home for the rifle, and someone like me that would finish the kit. The late owner never did any work on it except for some preliminary...
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    Storing Black Powder

    Does anyone here know the BATF rules on storing black powder for a business? I work part time in a gunshop and am trying to get the owner to consider stocking the real stuff in addition to the substitutes. I went to the BATF website and could not navigate the site successfully. Thanks for any help.
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    Some New Guy Questions For Loading a 10 Gauge

    I just bought a used 10 gauge percussion SxS Cabelas (Pedersoli) from a friend. The chokes are improved cylinder and open. I intend to use it primarily for grouse and turkey hunting, but might end up using it on waterfowl, too. I have about 30 years experience shooting ML rifles, but very little...
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    New Colorado Elk ML Application Rules

    Up until this year, when one applied for a general ML draw license, one could apply for either a statewide cow or bull tag, good for most hunting units. That meant one could hunt in several different units while looking for elk, or statewide for that matter, except for some trophy management...
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    New Shooters

    We got this picture on the front page of our local paper: http://steamboatpilot.com/news/2009/oct/05/fun_shoot_introduces_people_lorna_lou_farrows_pass/ Several local blackpowder shooters, including myself, ran a blackpowder shooting booth at this fun shoot. We brought out about a dozen...
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    Need Some Trigger Advice

    I have an Early Model Hawken flint rifle that I built from a Track of the Wolf kit about 6 years ago. It is outfitted with a L&R Model 1300 doubleset trigger and a 900D lock. They work very well, but the pull on the front trigger when not set is very stiff, so much that accurate shooting while...
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    Making a Roundball Mold?

    How did the old time mold makers (Around the Revolutionary War or so) make round ball molds? Just curious, as calibers were not "standardized" then, and it seems it must have been a fairly common skill then for a gunsmith as many of different bore sizes there were then.
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    What Do I Do Now?

    I have come into the custodianship of a 1/2 scale Napolean cannon for a few months, probably longer. It is very similar in size and weight to the 1/2 Napolean in Dixie's web catalog, only the bore is smaller at 1 5/8" instead of 2 1/4". My friends and I have used it for blank salutes (1f powder...
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    First Deer for Ultra-Hi

    I've had this Ultra-Hi .45 cal percussion rifle for 25 years or so, and have not hunted anything but rabbits with it and used it for some informal competitions. Since I drew a buck tag, but no elk tag this year, I decided to carry the .45 and leave the .54 home. It's about 4 pounds lighter, and...
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    Max. Load for Miroku Ultra-Hi .45 Long Rifle?

    I picked up this rifle(used)at a pawn shop many years ago. I've only used it for rabbit hunting w/light loads (30-40 grs. 3f), but am thinking about using it for deer hunting this year with patched roundball, and want to know what a likely maximum load might be not to exceed. The barrel measures...
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    No Electronic ML Ignitions in CO

    The Colorado DOW was originally going to allow electronic ignitions in muzzleloading rifles for the 2008 Muzzleloading Season, but has changed it's mind. No problem for me, I use the older kind of sparker. Here's a link: http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/BigGame/
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    Lee Minie Ball Molds

    My sons and I have been using CVA Powerbelt bullets for the past 4-5 years for hunting because we like the speed with which we can reload a fouled barrel.They also perform pretty good on elk and mule deer. Other conicals we have used are too hard to push down a fouled barrel quickly for a follow...
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    Hello from NW Colorado

    Hi,I live in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. I just discovered this forum several weeks ago, and must say I enjoyed finding a traditional BP site. I bought my first muzzleloader 28 years ago, and have been shooting BP ever since. No inlines, just traditional style percussion and flintlock rifles...
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