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Mike,
Rigidity (stiffness) is indifferent for octagon, fluted or whatever as the barrel is viewed as a cylinder utilizing the minimum average concentric circular dimensions irrespective of the...

The plastic wads are the problem, not enough friction until the bore gets fouled making it erratic so it'll never pattern worth a hoot. Ditch the plastic, use a couple tight fitting 1/8" or a 1/4"...

Looking good brother!

What's wrong with a SxS flintlock? If you plan on running steel shot use a shot sleeve and load by volume not mass.
Mark

And don't try it in a motel parking lot ... that welding crew shelled out a ton of cash for all the windows (I wasn't involved)

The flint & frizzen hardness must be compatible. If the flint is too hard for the frizzen, the frizzen will see excessive wear or damage. If the frizzen is too hard for the flint it won't produce...

There's no chip on this "dude's" shoulder. I made a tounge-in-cheek comment to which Billy adamantly stated he's not going to pay "that much". I merely explained why the costs are what they are and...

Billy,
There was absolutely no intent for my reply to be insulting - it was just a matter of explaining why an American made gun built with quality American made/sourced materials does not come with...

Interesting ... So let's see here, by your accounts the $800 minus the minimum $650 in materials costs leaves $150 to cover the 90+ man-hours, tooling, shop expenses and taxes ... are you willing to...

Billy,
That's because you haven't tried an underhammer yet. :wink:

Dirt Farmer is very much correct on the shotgun loading, you don't need "heavy" loads and in most cases all heavy loads do is...

Hey Doc, thanks for the kind words, glad you're happy with it! :D

Tom,

TS Debbie brought us much needed rain, 14" of it, most coming on Sun. & Mon., Wed. was the last of it. Had some breezy...

The presence or lack thereof a forestock is not an indication of period anything or not because the extreme versatility of the underhammer was exploited to its full extent long before any of us, or...

I wasn't busting on you about the velocity, just wondering if you came up with some kind of secret mojo :wink:

Reason I asked about pressure signs is because for some reason I was thinking...

Longbow -

Likely it's the free-bore and/or forcing cone length combined with the velocity of the bullet. The amount of pressure required to break the bullet free from the case mouth determines...

Longbow - again, please accept my reply as informational, not a flame or otherwise. It's just a discussion.

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adjective, sta·bler, sta·blest.
1. not likely to fall or...

Harry,

Slight breeze and even the thermal currents caused by the heating of the ground surface by the rising sun can move projo's around in flight, especially round balls. Best time to shoot is...

Something has to mechanically fail to cause "skipping"/"stripping", I can't tell you how many times such was blamed yet the recovered patches were in perfect condition and the patch/ball combo was...

Sorry, didn't mean to be so vague. "More forgiving" in the manner that slower twist will "typically" tolerate wide variations in velocity - not inconsistency in loading or crappy consumables but for...

"Quality". That's the one word to sum it all up. Junk in, junk out, good in, good out ... it's the way of the world. There's several other things going on but I can assure you, if you used crappy...

But do you know why :?:
Or rephase the question ... Can you point to the one factor that is a major player in why?
Mark

People wreck guns and/or hurt themselves every year because they don't load a single projectile or birdshot correctly or they're just not paying attention to what they're doing.

Like I said...

...... and some wonder why they get hurt or hurt someone else .....

Just for starters a 0.440"-0.445" round ball starts out at a diameter larger than most centerfire rifle bullets could even dream...

Good answers already so I'll just add that being a newbie, I'd suggest going with soft lead until you get the hang of things then you can move on to the more involved things. The projo should be a...

In agreement with Pete, if you're wanting to keep any powder from sticking to a not-dry bore, the tube will do that but if you're loading a clean dry bore, the barrel will be its own drop tube.
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I'll give you credit for walking away rather than doing something worse than what the other guy did ... however, you should have at least went info-fishing. Curb your anger/disgust and start some...