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    Force required to load.

    Nothing to lose by trying a looser combo, you may well find that if you use enough powder the ball will obturate enough to still give you good accuracy. Personally I've never liked all the hard loading that some guys put up with, seating with my thumb and ramming down the ball with only...
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    Mountion Man Knife

    I've found that if I want a fast etch, and I do mean fast, all I do is cold blue the blade then set it in bleach. If you try it, keep a close eye on things or you'll end up with more etch than blade.
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    Tiny pistol

    Thanks guys, all I needed to know about my new "Hee-man Mangle'em Vest Pocket Pistol." :haha: Ten grains it is. I'll report back with what kind of groups I get at a hundred yards. :grin:
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    Tiny pistol

    Hey Boys, I've got two quick questions about a very small pistol I got recently. It is of a type generally called a "muff pistol", London proofs, 5.25" long, engraved, with a silver butt cap and grip shield, @.32 calibre, percussion, with a centrally hung hammer. 1) Were these types of guns...
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    Anyone just skip the water

    I often use a solvent I make up of 99% rubbing alcohol with a dash of Murphy's oil soap. This works extremely well but I still do the hot water thing every few outings just to get all the gunk out of the flash channel etc.
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    Need for Overpowder Card?

    I use only the over shot cards and the circle fly lubed wads. One over the powder, wad, shot, one over shot card. I've never found any benefit to using the thick, hard over powder cards. Just one more thing to carry and keep straight.
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    My first custom rifle

    Really nice work. :thumbsup:
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    Why so few high end "percs"?

    Beautiful guns Herb. As to fancy, I am about as ignorant as you can get about the Eastern doin's but sure looks like you can get as fancy as you want with percussions just fewer of them because the system came so late in the ML era. But lest I leave the wrong impression, I wasn't originally...
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    Newest Horn

    As good as it gets, ya ask me. :thumbsup:
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    Why so few high end "percs"?

    Wow guys, a lot of good, well reasoned, thoughtful and informed comments plus some really dandy rifle pics to boot. I think I can also read between the lines to some extent here. The percussion board mostly discusses production, mostly Italian guns while the flintlock section is mostly the...
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    Trade or Not?

    Beautiful guns and a great picture. And, if I may ask, where did you buy your clay pipe?
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    Why so few high end "percs"?

    Hey Gents and Ladies, back many years ago when I got into this game, most of the guns I had, saw or heard about were percussion rifles with an emphasis on the RMFT. I live out West, so that explains things to some extent, but nonetheless, I'm sure we've all noticed that over the last number of...
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    15/16" .54 barrels

    Zonie, on the pin holes in the stock, there's something I've been thinking on doing, haven't yet, but would be interested in your take. And that is, how about just very slightly coning the wood at the mouth of the holes to better preclude the possibility of splitting out a sliver when removing...
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    Late season mallards

    Makeum, that's just plain good Karma that you shoot better with the ML. :grin:
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    Trade or Not?

    Ya done good. :thumbsup:
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    Speaking of rear sights....

    CJ, I REALLY like the looks of that sight. If we lived in the same neighborhood I'd hire you to make me one for my gun.
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    Show me your deer rifles

    Very cool to see you hunting in your period regalia. That's the way it should be done, imho. It always seems so incongruous to see fellers hunting with great looking old time ML's but dressed all in camo and/or blaze orange.
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    My first ever Buck!

    Hey Rob, forgot to mention yesterday that your gun and mine must be related. My .58 Hawken is called "Thumper," he's named after both Bambi's lil friend and because his kick is a tad ferocious.
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    Meriwether Lewis murdered?

    :v
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    Buckhorn sights??

    Like a lot of things, the usefulness of buckhorns lies in knowing how to use them properly and having the discipline and experience to do so in any given situation. :hatsoff:
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