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Don't use a musket nipple on your T/C Hawken if you are using Triple 7. I did this for about 5 shots before the tumbler was sheared into 2 pieces. Just try finding one of those at your local hardware store.

I blued my Lyman 1858 Remington kit gun about 2 months ago. I worked on it for several weeks on and off to get it smooth enough for a good finish. After I finished it I took it to the range and was very pleased with as it now shoots to point of aim. Well last week I took it out of the safe to...

I bought a Lyman 1858 kit at a garage sale in 1978. I put it together but never finished it and now I am going to. The kit has an iron receiver that seems quite porous. What do you guys recommend for finishing the frame?

I have an 1861 Colt's Musket. It is a signature model and is probably 40 years old but never fired. I took the barrel out of the stock Sunday and found this. Does this look safe to you?

I am currently watching the Comancheros on AMC. It is supposedly set in 1840 but all the guns are wrong. All the revolvers are 1873 Colt's and the rifles are Winchesters. In the gun fights there is very little smoke. Maybe I am just being to picky.

This was originally written and posted on the SASS Wire a few years ago by a fellow Cowboy Action Shooter, alias Boston John Doucette. He was a great poet, a gentleman and a scholar. Unfortunately, he was called from this earth way to early. I hope y'all enjoy it as much as I have.

1861 Special Contract Colt's Musket. You can't tell because of the glare but the trigger guard says Sam Colt in scriptl.

I was at the range Saturday instructing the nieghbors kids in the mysteries of NRA High Power shooting when a man and his wife and his 2 sons and thier wives came. The elder was giving instructions on how to fire his new telescoped M4 style AR. I am trying to get the kids into a sling...

Went through Fredricksburg, Texas this morining. Went in to Texas Jack's to look around. It was a bad idea. They had so much stuff I really wanted I could hardly leave the place. They had several engraved models that seemed reasonably priced for what they were. But the one thing I really...