Help, I am in desperate need of ' context'

[longcruise]

What those touch holes measure now may not be the same as what the maker started them out as.

 

[excess650]

What those touch holes measure now may not be the same as what the maker started them out as.

They didn't get smaller with usage, and that is the point.

 

[Celticstoneman]

"Sticky," may have been the wrong term here, different forums.s call them different things. Think of a sticky/post it note.
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See how there are several posts at the top of this subforum that show a pin and a lock to the right.
They are pinned to this place so they are easy to find and refer back to. They are locked so that people don't continue to post on the topic diluting the information that made the topic valuable.

The Audubon quote and the letter from Christian Oerter would be nice to have so conveniently placed.
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Brokennock,
By golly that is handy! Thanks.
John

 

[tenngun]

For a test, I used my 0.715" ball as the test and in my flat palm poured 2fg black powder to more or less cover the ball. The powder was then weighed and came to 90 grains. I did the same test 5 times and the charges ranged from 85 grains to 110 grains depending on how flat I held my palm. Slightly cupped was less, flat was more. The variation was much greater than when I use a volume measure, but of little adverse effect on target. Of course, with my smooth bore shooting skill, that's not saying much.

I did that too with similar results. Then in Carry the Wind, a novel, Ol’Scratch just cupped his hand. I could eye ball that to about ten to fifteen grains in my cupped hand.

 

[tenngun]

My first build was a full stock Hawken .54 with an L and R lock. Young and stupid I had a 1/16 touch hole. If I closed the frizzen, and rammed home the ball it self primed, filling the pan compleatly. I was shooting GO 3f

 

[longcruise]

They didn't get smaller with usage, and that is the point.

Yeah, that was my point.

If it wasn't made to be self priming, If it became that way with use, then it speaks to priming it with either the main or secondary horn.

 

[shorthair]

I did that too with similar results. Then in Carry the Wind, a novel, Ol’Scratch just cupped his hand. I could eye ball that to about ten to fifteen grains in my cupped hand.

Good series of books.