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I Took a Beautiful "Cougar" Home the Other Day......... Luckily, it wasn't a large feline -- or the female human variety either... ;) But she is rather pretty! I used to have a nice T/C Hawken but sold it off when a shooter at the club made me one of those "can't refuse" offers. I wasn't...

This info is buried in the "ROA Club" posting, as I'm #101 in there, but I just noticed I had never posted the images of the forcing cone -- before & after. So instead of burying the info in there again, I'll repost it here as it may be helpful to new owners of Old Army's. Ruger Old Army...

Since I will only load this one with Blackpowder -- it fits in this category... I've been doing some work on an old Remington No 1 Rolling Block that had been converted to a Schuetzen model -- with a heavy steel 2-pronged Swiss butt plate. With a 32" long .45-70 barrel installed, it weighs in...

1860 + 1862 + Memorial Day = A Great Afternoon at the Range After I had properly paid my respects to the fallen this Memorial Day this morning, it was time to proceed to the range and make some smoke this afternoon... It was a driz-mal afternoon here in Maine -- drizzly, with dismal gray skies...

Ahoy the forum from the coast of Maine... I picked up a decent used Pietta "1858 Remington New Army" over the weekend, and other than having to use the downward pressure of the drill press's quill -- and a liberal application of Kroil, along with two hot/cold cycles (300 degree oven for 25...

My hat's off to anyone who can shoot a flintlock well! Or good even... As for me, Thank God for percussion caps, metallic cartridges -- and Jack Daniel's!!! :D This series of pictures is of my identical twin brother shooting his new .69 caliber smoothbore flintlock... Wow!!! What an...