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Gentlemen: I urge you not to carry bp revolvers for personal protection. 1) A loaded bp gun will eventually suffer corrosion in the chambers. A smokeless cartridge gun won't if well maintained. 2) Even here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, antiques and antique replicas are exempt...

I have an Evans .44 repeating rifle that I'm restoring and found the mainspring is missing. Does anyone out there have a source for a main spring or can furnish me with rough dimensions and/or shape so I can grind my own? I suspect the spring would roughly resemble a c&b revolver spring, but...

The reason for using filler in a c&b revolver is so the ball won't have far to "jump" out of the cylinder to enter the throat of the barrel. I prefer Cream of Wheat instead of cornmeal as the Cream of Wheat won't compress like the cornmeal and therefore you can measure precisely and get a very...

I have won a number of matches using FFFG in my .69 cal. Model 1816 repro flintlock musket with no problem as the modern steel barrel handles it OK and it burns cleaner with less fouling. Most North-South Skirmishers use FFFG in their .58 cal. muskets for this reason. I use FFG in my original...