Recent content by drjohn

Go Flintlocks! Flip your Frizzen and Spark one up! This was to be a reply to "3213" in post #65

Hi, I’m John “drjohn” I live in Red Bluff Northern Ca. I used to be a juvenile correctional officer but for the last 12 years have been doing behavioral intervention therapy. The Dr. is shrink, not saw bones. I like shooting everything from air rifles, yes air rifles, to big bore but my real...

I’m new to c p revolvers, my history is cap Kentucky and flint tower musket pistol. So I’ve been playing with a recipe for lubed wads. I read a lot of ya all’s posted recipes and am liking one using two parts Manteca lard, one part paraffin wax and enough colored candle wax to tag the recipe...

I’m new to c and b revolvers, my history is cap Kentucky and flint tower musket pistol. But my ASM 1860 brass frame (along with my arthritic hand) seems to like a short 20 grains of pyrodex p, two homemade lubed patch wads, and a home cast .457 round ball. And mine seems to shoot about 2 or 3...

The loading lever hook jumped off my ASM colt army and everyone was out of stock on a replacement part and craxy on the shipping so I got another ASM barrel off EBay for 30 something. When it arrived it was well abused and needed a lot of fitting, dressing out peen marks from screwdriver blade...

It’s all fun, but the most was BB gunning with my kids when they were young. Don’t need to go to the range, shoot right in the backyard. My daughter even earned her high school letters on the school shooting team thanks in part to all the pounds of BB’s sent down range and more than a couple...

That’s very interesting about the raise, point and fire style and makes a heck of a lot of since, historically and origin wise. I just got an older Armie San Marco clone of the 1860 Colt, my brother and nephew got 58 remeys. Brother a new pietta and nephew an 1977 Lyman which I understand to...

Part of Black Powder cleaning I agree, cold bluing (I use B.C) is short lived but I use it to spot blue the heavy wear spots on some of my guns but mainly on my black powder guns. On my B.P.s after cleaning I prep with steel wool or a green scrubby pad and degrees with rubbing alcohol then...