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I recently came across a Lyman-imported 1860 Army clone with quite a bit of wear, but priced to reflect that, so I decided to take it on as a bit of a project. After looking it over, doing some research, and asking around, I've found that Lyman did have their 1860 replicas produced by Armi San...

I purchased a cheap Endoscope from Amazon a while back and used it to inspect the barrel and nipple (Musket size) on my 20 year old Traditions Hawken Caplock. The .50 Caliber Hawken failed to ignite on my last attempted shot. I was surprised how dirty the nipple remained after routine...

I have been asked to repair an old - '70's? - CVA .54 caliber mountain rifle that is missing the drum, nipple and cleanout screw. The nipple and cleanout screw are not a problem but I've come up empty on the drum. Dixie Gun Works lists it as unavailable and it is in Track-of-the-Wolf's catalog...

This article is excerpted from the book, The Muzzle Loading Cap Lock Rifle by Ned H. Roberts. The entire book can be accessed here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000799864f;view=1up;seq=7;size=175 Early in the 1880's in their efforts to improve the long range accuracy of...

I was reading an article in which it was mentioned that the standard hole diameter in new nipples is .028 inches. A drill size chart shows this to be the diameter of a #70 drill, but other than that .028 does not seem to be any particular fractional or metric size. A Google search seems to...