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There is a compound called acid resist, you paint the metal with it, scribe your design in the paint, put it in a glass casserole dish, pour in acid to cover, give it a couple days, rinse, dry, acetone to clean off, done.

2F works for about everything. 3F works for most things. 1F works in big bores and cartidges and so does 2F. Priming charges and methods of priming affect performance, as will humidity, powder condition and quality. Granule size is related to burn rate. Stock 2F and 3F and you can do...

Conicals - if sized correctly - seal better and have more contact with the bore than RB. Heavy charges can really mean the revolver load was packed more firmly. I have some repro Navy guns in .44 and when I use a filler over 15-18 grains of FFF, RB, and pack very firm, I get cleaner burn, less...

Forty-Four / Forty-Five had been designated Army handgun calibers and Thirty-Six a Naval caliber. None of these calibers had recoil issues. The 1860 and some others had been designed to shoot higher than point of aim.

Recoil was not a problem in the BP handguns. We did not really see many written references to small arms recoil control until after the Civil War. We saw some references to it on the trapdoor cavalry carbine ammo matter.

Mid to Late 60s box. Nice. Was buying and shooting paper right up through late 70s. Paper occasionally still available. Roll-crimp on paper factory loads seemed to have faded out for the star shaped crimp. Plastic had its advantages, I really liked paper. First time I pulled a trigger was...

I think it has many possibilities to be sure.

The only problem shooting slugs through full choke is if the muzzle is thin-walled, eventually it moves, distorts. IC or MOD or CB seems to work fine with fosters and brenneke slugs. SXS - depending on how made and when and by who - can be sensitive to slug damage especially when its not CB...

In reading here, thinking it over, for me, a good single-shot 20ga with a variety of choke tubes and a 3" chamber is probably going to be the better option for what I like to do, or a light-weight 20ga double barrell with 3" chambers.

I have guns with screw-in chokes and some without. I have 12s and 20s. One 20 I have is full choke 28" with 3" chamber and with a 3" shell it acts alot like my 12ga guns with 6,7,8 shot size. I seldom use 3" in any of my 20ga guns. The 2.75" shells in my 20s have dropped doves, rabbits...

Yeah, I like the idea, for sure. Ive got alot of guns, doubles, pumps, auto, etc. But I always go back to my old single barrels, they are light to carry, easy to clean, easy to manage and I really like 20ga.

I want to shoot slug, buck, and shot out of the same 20ga, and want an ok pattern for shot. Slug and buck are best in cylinder bore. 20 is already a smaller bore, we choke down a 12 to get a smaller muzzle for pattern density, 20 is already small. Had questions, go figure.

Cylinder bore shoots any type of shot, ball or slug. Pattern density is usually achieved by choking. As the 20 is already smaller bore than 12ga, would it be correct to say the shot is already leaving a smaller muzzle and therefore already "choked" down anyway? I want to stay cylinder bore if...

Preferred revolvers may have been dependent on which trooper was asked. Forrest preferred double barrelled short shotguns. Stewart liked Lemat 9-shooter with its central shotgun barrell. Many units got nothing but a carbine. TX rangers seemed to like 1847 Walkers carried in 4 saddle holsters...

I was working long guns not revolvers. Im not wrapping balls. Heavy brown-bag-paper patches alone over buffered loads shoot fine. In cases of undersized roundballs, paper patches combined with fabric allow for adjusting thickness, works just fine. Additionally, it raises a question about...

SXS stamped Newcastle, looking for parts. Recent acquisition, never heard of newcastle before. Anyone on here familiar with thesr guns?

Was thinking about easing the cleaning later.

I am very glad to learn this from you. I did not know

If I had a .464 rifle barrell to drop in my TC Hawken, I could shoot patched .454 Ball, which I use in my revolvers. Would anyone know where to get a barrell made like this?

Cornmeal buffers the patch, reduces burning of the patch, helps gas seal, knocks foul loose for easy clean later. Many things are used ranging from wasp nest to sawdust to rolled oats, chaff, plug of chaw, etc etc. Cornmeal os cheap, handy, works very well