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Swamp Bow:
Thanks
huntertrapper:
we use just plain soap water and keep the touch hole end with the breech plug out and run a few patches through. then we take the barrel out and run dry patches through it then dry the whole barrel in and out with an air compressor. then hit the inside and out with gun oil.
stickbender:
J.W. , those air guns got quite a bit of meat for them. It was also the gun that Napoleon feared the most. Some of them had a ball type air reservoir, and some had the reservoir in the stock. One design had it so you just unscrew the stock, and then stick the pointed rod, into a tree, and start pumping. Even though they were air guns, they still had a lock on the side, to make them look like normal guns. They were so superbly made, that some have held air for more than five years, with no appreciable air loss! :o That is precision craftmanship! ;) Wish it was like that today. I have seen some of them at gun shows, and they are marvels of engineering, and craftsmanship. 8)
Wayne
riarcher:
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--- 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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For anything muzzleloading I'd like to recommend here:
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/index.php?
There is tons of info on the smoke poles and it's the equiv. of PA to ML.
No matter what you're looking for, someone will gladly point the way.
A friend of mine that I've lost contact with was really into the L&C thing. Made a few rifles to copy also.
Just be thick skinned when posting there. Not everyone agrees and gets along, but, they don't bite new comers,,,,, too often. :D
Gary
riarcher:
Oh, and for years and years, I used a 50:50 mix of Windex and 409/Fantastic for cleaning and "spit patch".
Some agree, some don't,,, but I never use a petroleum product in the bore.
I use my homemade patch lube. It's a mix of bees wax and olive oil. Mixed so the consistancy is like warm margrine. (better than Borebutter, which is good too. Just not as good. ;))
I seems to help a lot with the "first round flyer". - For hunting, that's important to me.
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