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Timo:
Dane, cleaning is very simple.
one part 91% alcohol
one part perioxide
one part murphys oil soap
Mix it all together.
I just plug my touch hole and pour some down the barrel,let it set for about 15 mins, slosh it back and forth a few times,pour it out. Run a few patches to finish up. make sure it's dry then a light oil patch. nuthin toit!
Always store my rifles barrel down, keeps any access oils from running into the breech area.
huntertrapper:
Awesome stuff guys. Flintlock hunting is my favorite way to go along with longbow, i dont hunt any other way. My dad took a button buck this year with the flintlock i hunt with and i missed two doe but took a fat squirrel, i alos killed a groundhog a few summers ago with it too.
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Dane:
Nice recipe. I'll have to try it.
I never said difficult, only not fun. It is anyway when you are exhasted from a long day shooting. But that is the price of shooting these weapons.
Dane
--- Quote from: Timo on February 07, 2010, 10:58:19 am ---Dane, cleaning is very simple.
one part 91% alcohol
one part perioxide
one part murphys oil soap
Mix it all together.
I just plug my touch hole and pour some down the barrel,let it set for about 15 mins, slosh it back and forth a few times,pour it out. Run a few patches to finish up. make sure it's dry then a light oil patch. nuthin toit!
Always store my rifles barrel down, keeps any access oils from running into the breech area.
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Swamp Bow:
Timo,
How long can you let that cleanig solution soak?
Swamp
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: Grunt on February 07, 2010, 09:44:04 am ---Fine work, you know your stuff. Lewis and Clark carried a 1803 Harpers Ferry 50 cal half stock flintlock. Your build looks like the transition rifle, half stock for horseback, a forerunner of the Hawken.
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I am looking for the documentation, but recently I read that the 1803 Harper's Ferry Rifles were delivered about 4 months after the Corps of Discovery shipped out.
The gun they carried that really gets my interest piqued is the air rifle. They were able to get multiple shots off before pumping up the reservoir. Coooool.
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