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Well loved Kentucky gunmaker Hershel House passed away on Jan 10. Hershel was largely self taught and studied longrifles of all makes but his favorite was the iron mounted Southern rifle. He took it to another level and added engraving, dual patchboxes and other embellishments (depending on...

1100 to 1200 grains 4F with 3 balls atop and gun set off. Stock breaks, bulge in barrel and tip of muzzle banana out. Don't try this at home. What a public service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StO9a1CYbk

I've been a subscriber for years and more recently a contributor with four articles published. Yesterday I was informed that their parent organization decided to fold them under. So much for my lifetime subscription (excess of 15 years). Does anybody else know of a printed gun magazine that...

Howard Massingill is teaching a lever action rifle tuning class at Trinidad College this summer. Howard was one semester after me and after graduating operated his own gun shop in Pueblo. He's retired now but returns to Trinidad to teach in the summer. It's from June 24-8. There's also a SA...

Been working on a horn for the .32 caliber horn nosed squirrel gun. First two images show the raw horn being worked down. No white so I'm not losing much other than a weight (originally 3/8" thick). Third image shows it after being boiled and a wedge driven in so that it may be flattened in a...

I learned of this gun while researching for the firs tbook and contacted the Royal Armouries whose staff confessed at the tyme that they knew nothing about the action. Well, they've corrected that deficiency and here's their video on the Belton Repeating rifle that was offered to the American...

I bought a Pedesoli single cavity .40 cal round ball mould. Will a Lyman large handle set work for it?

Today I learned the Goex's Old Eynsford label has 1.5 F black powder. It's supposed to be for black powder cartridge rifles. https://goexpowder.com/olde-eynsford-1-5-f/ Can anyone please explain non-Eynsford cartridge powder. Where does in fall in the F scale?

Those who enjoyed the book, Rifles of White Death, will be delighted to learn there's a new book on the Finnish Mosin - Finnish Mosin-Nagant: Three Line Rifles to Ukka Pekka. From the preview it appears very scholary and thorough. As you know, during WW I the Finland was a province of Russia...

Currently auditing a NRA Summer skool Conservation Course offered Trinidad College Gonne-smything Department in Trinidad, Colorado. A student brought in a 22 Sportsmodell trainer (no papers from GI though). He removed the barrel band and discovered it was a duffel-cut! [Gomer Pyle]Surprise...

Broke two #3 5/8" long brass screws while screwing them down into a pre-drilled piece of oak. Anyone else have experience with the fequency of brass screw breakage?

The good dog horn. Like the Rosetta Stone, it says the same thing in three scripts: archaic latin, latin and english. "Feed me and walk me." Final line is "Good Dog." When the other email arrives I'll show the other side with a hunting scene and the butt.

I need 2 M-4 Metric machine screws. 1) They must be flat head (bigger at top and tapering down to shaft) 2) Slotted (no philips or anythng fancy) head 3) steel 4) preferably black/blue I've tried Fastenal and they only have philips or what not.

Fitted a horn nose onto a muzzle loading squirrel gun (.30 cal RB). Years ago I tried pouring pewter but the quantity was too small and the pewter would cool off too fast and I'd get a poor casting. Hence horn was used.

Can anyone confirm that before putting an unstained ramrod to use, to soak it in a 50/50 mixture of linseed oil and turpentine? This is supposed to make it more flexible.

I want to see how their 9mm extractor looks like. "A dual coil spring assembly located in the extractor allows insertion and retention of a 9mm cartridge in each chamber of the revolver's cylinder. After firing, the shooter can easily eject the spent cartridges for immediate reloading."

At SteveinAllentown's suggestion, this thread has links to topics relevant to the 1911.

Newspaper man interviewed Doc Holiday in Gunnison, Colorado. Run time 11 min 21 sec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQIgqttG57Y

Meet the maker of the modern Mortimer flintlock style airgun and learn you sum airgonne hyster: https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/mortimer-flintlock-style-airgun-article-part-i-meet-the-maker.916131/ A Hawkens half-stock partially made by him will be raffled off by the NMLRA this...

This is from the Feb. 2023 issue of Muzzle Blasts magazine, the official publication of the NMLRA. It is part II which discusses the muzzle loading windbusche/air rifle itself. Page 2 & 3 of the file is too big to upload but you can read the rest at The High Road...