Search results for query: *

I have an old Stevens model 75 pump .22 rifle on which I'd like (actually it would be more correct to say need) to mount a tang sight. The mounting holes in the tang are 1 1/8 inches apart. An old Lyman catalog lists the correct sight base for the rifle as the one marked SM. A Lyman 1A or 2A...

I bought a .577 Snider at the estate sale of a good friend of mine. I know relatively little about Sniders but had always thought them to be either military conversions of muzzle loading Enfields or later new manufacture of the Snider system in military pattern rifles. This one isn't a...

I finally brought a Sharps ( Armi Sport, Taylor's) 45/70 home from a gun show Saturday. Now I have to re-learn loading black powder cartridges for it. I had a SILE Sharps several years ago and had poor luck with BP in it, but I didn't know about black powder lube, then. Saturday...

I bought a Euroarms Remington .44 replica at a gun show today which shows a slight chamber to barrel misalignment an all six chambers. It is very minimal and is on the right side as you look down the muzzle, which means the cylinder has over-rotated slightly. The bolt fits precisely into the...

...when the relative humidity is below 30 percent. That is asserted, along with some other interesting data, like what percent of a charge remains in the bore as fouling, in this article I ran across. It's worth reading. http://www.thunder-ridge-muzzleloading.com/Bill%20Knight.htm Steve

I loaded my Pietta 1858 Remington just before deer season and didn't wind up shooting it until yesterday. It was loaded with 32 grains of Swiss 3F, a card wad, lube pill and .451 ball with Remington caps on the nipples. All chambers went off normally. The only thing I did was to ensure the...

What's the best way you have found to clean your fired cases of the black powder residue before reloading them? I have done them one.......by........one........ and found that method less than desirable. Steve

A veteran of world war II who I've known for several years recently passed away. His estate sale is coming up and, among other items, is listed a Japanese sword. I know the sword came back with him so there's no doubt about it's authenticity, but what should I know about before the auctioneer...

I have been interested in the Whitworth rifle for some time but when I actually got around to buying, I selected a .451 Volunteer instead. I am still amazed at the way these rifles work. You load a bullet that is under bore size and the power generated when the powder blows "bumps up" the bullet...

I found this Katana style sword in a pawn shop recently. It has a damascus blade which is inscribed on both sides, the inscription extending beneath the brass whatchamacallit. The inscription on the other side is in some different language than the one shown but my camera shot craps on me in the...

While shooting the Remington yesterday, I fired three chambers doing a penetration test in some pine lumber with all the powder the chamber would hold and still allow the ball to be seated. I wanted to also see how that loading would group, so I stuffed the three empty chambers back full and...

Here's a target I shot today, 25 shots at 75 yards. The bullets were improved .58 caliber minies from a Lee mould, lubed with beeswax/olive oil ahead of 67 grains of Goex FFG. I forgot my cleaning rod, left it home, so I fired this target without any cleaning of any kind. I had already shot 8...

I can't seem to be able to get any consistency in my cast minies. I have tried everything I know of. I have had my electric lead pot all the way up, have had the moulds hot enough that the bullets are frosted, have tried every different way to introduce the lead into the mould that I can think...

I'm going to just have to eventually buy a Whitworth rifle. Dixie Gun Works sells two different ones, one made by Euro Arms and one by Parker Hale/ Gibbs. The tore-betweens I'm having is the Parker Hale costs half again as much as the Euro Arms! I'm looking for opinions about whether Parker...

My Pietta 1858 Remington is going to require a new hammer, I'm afraid. I noticed last night that the "ball bearing" feel my gun had possessed had, as they say across the pond, "gone missing" The first 1/2 inch of travel when the hammer was cocked was draggy and gritty. I took it down and found...