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karlunity

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  1. Fellas.

     

    I have a question.

     

    What is the proper way to clean a Cap and ball BP revolver?

     

    I was just going to use MP Pro 7, which the maker said works on BP arms, to clean the pistol as I do the Hippy's 38.

     

    Yet some sites say that you have to take the pistol completely apart, every screw and spring. and boil them in hot water.

     

    I am thinking that the fellas in the Civil war did not take their pistols completely apart after shooting.

    They would have lost the parts in the field. : )

     

    Field strip: take out the cylinder clean it, the bore and the rear plate, yes but every screw and spring?

     

    That seems a bit much.

     

    What do you fellas do?

     

    Karl

     

    P.S. Uncle, I found some bp. : )

  2. Once the fighting with England started any one who was not active in the service of America was damned as a "Tory".

     

    After the war, it was never the goal of the Founding Fathers to set up a democracy.

    What they created and what we still have is a republic.

     

    Only after victory was political debate allowed and yes, it got very nasty.

     

    Even Washington, by the end of his second administration, was being called bad names.

     

    Still the people have spoken and the voice of the people is the voice of God...as the British judge said before he ordered you to hang. : )

     

    Perhaps the people are right, yet I don't think so. I think that the foe has been emboldened and we may yet pay a very very bloody price in several 9/11s, before we wake up and teach a very hard lesson to the sons of the prophet.

     

    Karl

  3. Now would be a good chance since your starting over to try a Remington Army 58. Jerry

     

    That seems like sound advice so I called and told Cabalas to send me a Remington Army 58 instead of a refund. I used the "chat" service and got all my questions answered.

    This one is all steel except for the hand guard and should be here in 3 to 6 days.

    I think, however, I shall shoot this one BEFORE I name it. !!!!

     

    Karl

  4. When I tried to "cock" the hammer on my cap and ball pistol, half the time it would NOT come all the way back and engage the sear. I would have to let the hammer fall and try again.The only way to make the sear engage for sure, was to hold the pistol in your hand with your thumb on the hammer and sort of snap your wrist down.

     

    Did I just get a bad pistol or do they all cock with a snap of the wrist?

     

    With my regular pistols and revolvers, you just thumb the hammer back, it engages the sear and you fire.

     

    I have sent it back and was thinking of ordering a different one, but I would like one that works.

     

    Karl

     

     

  5. I bet new gun control legislation starts in January.

     

    I think that the Dems will try and leave guns alone TILL 08. ( I could be wrong, I did not think that they would take the House. )

     

    They will try and convince us that the "new Dem" is not antigun, in an effoprt to get Hill the Whitehouse.

     

     

    Should THAT happan, I think our gun rights will go the way of England.

     

    karl

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