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Nice. Steve Earle makes scope and sight blocks. I’ve used them to mount period correct Redfield sights, both front and rear. Sometimes you can find them on ebay, Gunbroker or others. Williams...

You did well. Check Gunbroker on this but I bet you could get 8 or 9 hundred for it at auction. Maybe more. I’d also advise shooting it for a while. As a cap gun. They are wonderful revolvers.

Wow! What a find!!

I would beg borrow or steal a copy of The Muzzleloading Caplock Rifle written by Ned H. Roberts. I believe your rifle would take a .357” bullet including the patch. Yes, it...

If you haven’t already, you might look into Lee Shavers method for smoothing barrels. I’ve used it on a few Hoyt barrels and lately every barrel I get.

“Lee Shaver’s Break-in Procedure

Having...

Not sure it’s pointless. All though I can see how some might think so.�� at any rate one question, how fast can it go go, if answered, leads to the next. How do we make it go where we want it to go?...

The question was how fast. Not how fast with accuracy. Although I’m sure you could engineer a rifle/projectile system that could be accurate at speeds over 2500 fps. I don’t need the headache such a...

I just got the kit for the Hazards Waterproof cartridges. Similar process but he uses Dextrin as the binder before casting the pellet. It’s glued to the bullet and then painted with the thinned...

From the P-Max calculator… https://www.p-max.uk/cgi-bin/black_powder.cgi it shows a possible speed of over 2800 fps with a .360 ball over a charge of 100 grains of 3f in a 48” barrel.
This...

That rifle setup for .58 round ball would be quite a nice shooter. And a heck of a conversation starter!

Bobby will advise you, when I asked him about bullet shooting for my 40 caliber rifle he suggested 1:14 for up to 420 grain bullets and it’s been brilliant. Beware of fouling with the smaller bores....

I have gain twist in my 1860 Colt and also in my Pietta Shooters Model. Both are superbly accurate guns. Bobby Hoyt says they should also provide higher velocity. I have not verified this since I...

You don’t need to ream the cylinder to .465. I would go to .454 and use the .457 ball. It will obdurate easily to fill the grooves and probably give you much better accuracy than the current...

So much misinformation about those second generation colts. Some of the parts were imported from Uberti, others were made right here by Colt.

“This is an excerpt from Dennis Adler's latest book,...

Pietta Shooters Model recommends .464” and its chambers are .456” but I’ve used .457 in them successfully. Most of my revolvers are reamed to .456” and use .457 balls or bullets

“According to the concept, the tragedy of the commons, should a number of people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource such as a pasture, they will tend to over-use it, and may end...

They’re not building anymore of those and I’ve recently seen them sell for 1200 and 1600 on Gunbroker. The deluxe version sold for 2300 new.

The investarms is the same rifle as the Lyman isn’t it?

Pietta 1860’s sorta look like an original 1860 Colt. If you squint at it from 30 feet… Uberti are much closer dimensionally including the critical dimensions of chamber/bore, as well as the fit and...

I’m told that GOEX will be shipped blackpowder soon…

I’ve taken two of these in trades. A 4-5/8” and 5-1/2” . They’re very well made and accurate as you say. I typically load 25 grains of T7 under a lubed Kerr bullet and it’s a snappy loading, good for...

100%..what a waste of plastic all that crap is… if you want to unload your rifle at days end, get a ball discharger and a box of co2 cartridges. Or, uncap, place a scrap of leather over the nipple...

Maybe this would work 310836or this… depending upon how hard you want to swat things…310837

I had both of them made up at accurate molds and cut to drop bullets at .458” I can then size .457 and...

Like many others, I much prefer black powder over substitutes. If that’s what you can get however, it will work just fine in the TC breech as well as the GM, Rice, or other plugs. I’ve been using...

This might be close. Perhaps a bit longer than the PA…

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That will work!