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Matchlocks! Opening scene has a SEAL type action as men wade ashore to spike the enemy's guns. With their matches wrapped around their wrists and matchlock held aloft, they stealthily infiltrate the enemy's camp in a surprise attack. There's plenty of snaphaunces, wheel locks, a few...

Here's the relief carving I did this semester. It took over 60 hours. Here's the rest of the stock. Note the half-round, octagon barel. And the hand made brass patchbox

This is a test. I'm still learning to post images. I made this horn during lunch hour when we are not allowed to use any machinery. The horn was carved in the F&I manner and decorated with a more modern fur trade era theme. It has a brass filler plug in the butt and an ebony stopper...

Brank was the Battle of New Orleans rifleman who stood atop of the cotton bale wall and began shooting the British down at about 267 yards. The unveiling will be on May 17, 2014 at 11 a.m. at the Muhlenberg County Courthouse & Veterans Memorial Plaza. The distance may not sound impressive...

For the past two weeks, I've been working on one of those Indian made Brown Bess. The geometry of the sear/tumbler was not right and about half the time the trigger was pressed, the cock would fall on the sear's half cock notch. To solve it, a bead was TIG welded on the sear/tumbler and after...

Anyone got a micrometer and a caliper and an unused musket cap? I'm thinking of making my own Tap O'Cap for muskets. Today I made a set of aluminium 1.100" jaws for my barrel vise. Looking for another machine shop project (after I mill some flats on a barrel I tapered).

The original flintlock used by Fess Parker in Disney's Davy Crockett has surfaced. It was bought for a song (but not "Born on a Mountaintop in Tennessee"). Click on the link for more details and pictures...

There is an interesting article on The Manhattan Conversion for Colt replica cap 'n ball revolvers. The conversion entails brazing/soldering a piece of metal to the frame where the hammer falls that prevent spent caps from jamming between the frame and the hammer. The hammer must be modified by...

A friend has a Cimmaron Arms 44 WCF he wants me to convert to 44 Special. Can it be safely done?

Author Fred Ray sent me this link on using grease for clearing an obstructed ball: http://www.beartoothbullets.com/tips/archive_tips.htm/49

OK, in response to the poor marksmanship displayed during the war, the NRA was created with Union Major-General Ambrose Burnside as its first president. How did the NRA promote rifle marksmanship back in the 1870s? Did they provide range instructions?

Click on this link to view an old print of blackpowder mfg in the 16th Century. Click Here Click here for hornmaking

Since Ruger won't, why don't we? What would it take to convert one? I'm thinking about interchangeability whereas you remove the Blackhawk cylinder and drop in a cap 'n ball cylinder. That way it can be readily reconverted to a cartridge gun. I can see problems with the frame mounted firing...

I'm almost finished with a powder horn I started last semester. It was a lunch time project when I couldn't use a lathe or mill and had time to kill. I scrimshawed the Santa Fe trail on it and some significant (and insignificant) towns on it. It includes Bent's Fort, Fort Union, Santa Fe...

This image is from the Central African Republic. Is this chap wielding a Peabody?

in Alabama. It has been returned to the National Park Service at Saratoga. http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/2013/11/the_mysterious_tale_of_a_revol.html#incart_river_default

I'm going to apply Permalyn Sealer to a cabinet I refinished. I know to apply with a brush but the instructions didn't say anything about cleanup of the brush afterwards. Mineral spirits good enough?

I was trying to teach a classmate about the golden mean as it applies to the sculpting of his horn. Anyway, I couldn't convert the inches to proportions and so I converted everything to metric, made my calculations in metric and then reconverted it back to inches (we only had an inch ruler)...

A neighbor harvested a black bear and gave me the fat. Remembering Ned Roberts' book, The Muzzle Loading Cap Lock Rifle, I started rendering it. Initially I tried the double boiler technique, but that only softened the fat. Then I placed two bricks on the grill and placed the pot atop the...

I was reading Nicolai Linin's book, Free Fall, in which Linin wrote that in the Second Chechen War, his unit captured a gun loaded with mercury filled boolits. Never heard of it. From page 256: I know that we had AP that were painted black. I doubt if anyone here in Estados Unidos makes...