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Toss-up between the Stallard and the Hi-Point.

Plus a High Standard, a Harrington & Richardson, an Iver Johnson, and a Kel-Tec.

With or without an "ammo shortage", it's still easier to find .45ACP ammo, or even .40S&W, than to find 10mm.

Apparently the same 480-grain paper-patched bullet used in the .577-.450 Martini-Henry rifles.

I think I've got about the whole set, except for the smaller Little Snick. I've got the Balmung, the Snickersnee, and the Durendal carving knives in boxed sets, with the Siegfried and the Ron carving forks, and the Gerber Miming Steak Knives. Very fine steel, which really holds an edge, but...

In a pocket that doesn't advertise that I'm carrying a knife. I only use a clip on a folder in an inside jacket pocket, so I don't have to dig for it.

Winchester #11 caps were hanging on the rack at Wal-Mart yesterday, right next to the Pyrodex and other muzzleloading supplies.

The Pietta Remington .44 is a great buy for $229. It's the same price with either the 8" barrel or 5.5" barrel. It also takes the conversion cylinder (not available from Cabella) that enables it to shoot regular .45 Colt cartridges with Cowboy loads.

I got a whole pack of 25 small plastic test tubes and snap-on sealing caps from a lab supply place for about $5. They are big enough to hold a 110 gr. charge of 2F BP.

Of course, the Howdah pistol was made to discourage a tiger from climbing into your howdah with you, at a range of 1 meter, or less. :)

I understand using cornmeal as a filler in BP cartridges, so the charge gets propper compression, but what is the purpose of using cornmeal in a non-cartridge muzzle loader, where the ball is seated directly on top of the powder charge?

That hook below the trigger guard is where the off hand is supposed to grip. Even with cartridge conversions, having your hand or wrist over the cylinder gap is not a good idea.

I believe the heavy pilum was designed to pentrate enemy shields at fairly close range and stick there, dragging down the shield and maybe wounding the shield arm, in order to open the enemy up to being stabbed with the gladius when they closed. The bending after impact also kept the enemy from...

On the low-budget end, I've got an Iver Johnson TP-22 (Walther PPK lookalike), a Harrington & Richardson "Sidekick" revolver, a High Standard "Sentinel Deluxe" 9-shot revolver, and a Heritage "Rough Rider" 6-shot single-action .22LR/.22Magnum convertible revolver. And Advantage Arms .22...

I remember the Discovery Channel atlatl show. As I recall, the distance record with an atlatl dart is about 285 yards, which is a pretty far piece, for a hand-thrown weapon.

That's what military muskets were loaded with for over 100 years, before rifling and conical bullets became the standard.

Muskets and rifles can use tougher paper than the nitrated papers used for making revolver loads. In Colonial Williamsburgh, the blanks they shoot in the Brown Bess muskets appear to be made out of brown Kraft paper, like that in brown-paper lunch bags.

Do they still make Poly-Chokes? I haven't seen one offered on a newly made shotgun in years, though the one I have on my old Mossberg 20 ga. pump works fine. Only advantage I see to it is that it saves having to keep track of separate choke tubes and that little tube wrench.

In the old days, they used whatever paper was available, including pages from books and newspaper.

There's a Sticky thread for requesting S&W mfg. date info in the Revolvers Forum here, I believe.