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Forgot to mention; when I say the L&R replacement lock "dropped in" I mean the plate and bolster dropped in. Otherwise the replacement required a LOT of extra inletting, for the flat mainspring (my...

Sorry if this sounds smug, but the L&R replacement lock that I installed dropped right in. I had actually hoped that it would fit tighter than the original so as I could improve the fit compared to...

And by the way; thanks for posting!

Good heavens.

A case full of fast-burning pistol powder (around 25 grains) will blow even a 223 Remington to bits and pieces. I've seen it. It blew the receiver (upper and lower) apart, blew the...

Looks to me like you may be over-thinking it. Replacing a mainspring is not the way to improve the trigger. Improving the trigger is the way to improve the trigger. That or installing a set...

Hmm, yeah; with a powder drum, which should always be supported by the lock bolster, that's once case where I'd probably lean toward a second screw. Still, with a tightly inletted lockplate, a...

What's this talk of "flanges"? I know of no such part. The lock plate has a bolster into which the main lock screw is threaded and which sits against the barrel. The rest of the lock plate sits...

And just as an aside; I can tell just by looking at photographs that a lot of the so-called "repros" are substantially different from the originals. I've spent hours and hours modifying loading...

Not sure what you're asking. I have both the new Uberti and Pietta, and the cylinders are definitely not interchangeable. Some people have modified their Uberti Remingtons to accept Piette...

The gain twist is a pretty good indicator. I've seen older Colts in far better condition, going for six figures at auction, and so the mere fact that it's as good as it is doesn't tell you anything...

Well, you were truant during your high school basic physics classes then. Everyone should know that solubility and temperature are directly related (more of whatever can be dissolved if the...

Neat! That's how you make rock candy too, with sugar instead of potassium nitrate of course.

I've been through the nitrating thing, and gave it up. Understand that you're talking with someone...

Yeah, I'm with tomme boy on this one. The mild pressures in such a moderate black powder (or substitute) load do not "lead" the bore, that is, not in the way smokeless loads do. The powder fouling...

I have the Lyman 57 on a Lyman/Investarm Deerstalker rifle and I like it. It seems to hold zero just fine after years of removing the barrel. So long as your barrel installs reasonably tight and...

I had to look it up, being as this is a muzzleloading forum and 45;45;10 is a bullet lube used in smokeless loads. It consists of Johnson's paste wax, Lee liquid Alox, and 10% mineral spirits used...

The fifty caliber round ball from a rifle can easily reach a thousand foot pounds muzzle energy. If you're not killing a deer efficiently with it, it's you, not the load.

Several of our...

This subject comes up several times per year, or so it seems to me, on the ML forums. All I can say is that my son and I have killed well over a dozen deer with 50 cal, pure lead RB, using heavy...

Also a coil mainspring takes up less room, and thus it requires less inletting than a flat mainspring. That leaves more wood in the weakest part of the rifle; the area around the lock mortise and...

You get used to the cold very quickly, so long as you're not standing around whining to yourself about it. My nephew and I went out a couple weekends ago and it was 17*F with a breeze. We were...

Recipes, anyone? In order to duplicate your excellent results, we would need;

Mold # (OK, we got a few of those)
Alloy used
Air cooled or quenched, etc., (or actual hardness if measured)
Lube...

Actually I remembered it wrong. The OP has it correct. I'd that the ivories, or "tusks" were farther back on the skull. I thought wrong. Here's the Moscow Hide & Fur web site, showing a white...

I've seen deer and elk ivory before (you can buy them at Moscow Hide and Fur in Moscow, ID, about two miles from where I sit), and that's nothing like it.

Let's not over-think it.

First there was the flintlock, with a flash hole drilled directly into the side of the barrel, just forward of the breech plug. The breech plug was flat faced, with short...

It depends on what you intend to do with it/how you want to use it. SOme very good, standard black powder lubes are Gatofeo #1 (GF1) and SPG. They both use a significant amount of bee's wax. You...

There are several people on this forum and/or on the 1858 Remington forum who use a 45 caliber Lee REAL bullet in their 44 percussion revolvers. I know you said "ball" but that one is a direct...