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And what stand on this is the UK NRA taking? Absolutely none - same as it did when the various bans on self loading rifles and pistols were in prospect. If you don't wear Harris tweed and a bush hat and shoot a 7.62 at 1000 yards the NRA has no interest in you and your rights whatsoever. This snoope...

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We were fortunate enough to have the wife's great uncle's name entered on the Roll of Honour read out nightly at the Tower. We went up to pay our respects and I made a short video of the simple ceremony. It's on my YouTube channel amongst the shooting stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOdooWqrG...

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Guys, with your help the barrel is now off. Can't get Kroil in the UK so I soaked it overnight in a 50/50 mixture of auto transmission fluid and acetone. The 45 degree angle block tip worked a treat and held it fast while I slipped a 4ft length of pipe over the action wrench handle and heaved. Guess...

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Finally got my export licence so I can now ship the barrel of my 1890 vintage Winchester 1873 to a gunsmith in Switzerland for a reline. The barrel has been in place for 124 years so I don't suppose it will give up without a fight. I have made an action wrench and am working on some aluminium vice i...

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I have made lube cookies by pouring melted wax/lube mix onto the top of hot water. The wax will float on top of the water and when cool/hard, the sheet can be removed. Gravity will make the sheet a uniform thickness. +1 on this method. I use tinfoil takeaway food containers for the mould. If you me...

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Perry, I just wish we as humans could learn from it and stop the wars. I guess I'm dreaming. As for the Tower of London I always pictured it as a tall narrow tower. This is the first pic I've seen of it. Joe Joe, Next year will mark the first time since 1914 that British forces have not been engage...

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As part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War 1 the moat of the Tower of London is gradually being filled with ceramic poppies over a 4-month period. When completed on November 11th there will be a total of 888,246, one for every member of the commonwealth forces killed in actio...

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I use the harbor Freight mini chop saw to cut 50-70 brass down to 56-50 Spencer.

I made the holding jig from scrap aluminium. The Spencer is very particular about COL so I finish them all in a Forster trimmer.

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I lived on Long Island, NYS, from 2003 to 2008, on secondment from my home in England. During that time my work took me to 47 of the other states but I never once thought "Wow, I wish I lived here instead of in New York". Sure, other states have better hunting and easier gun laws but for m...

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Yes, it's this one http://www.biglube.com/BulletMolds.aspx ... ebfdaba982
It works in Old Armys and Remington clones but I don't know about others as it drops at about 0.457in. If you use a lubrisizer I suppose you could squeeze it down to 0.454.

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I use my pair of Old Armys for training CAS newbies and might fire 200 rounds in a session. These are my projectiles of choice http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_2170_zps15e04c3f.jpg I cast the Big Lubes 6 at a time and run them through a Lubrisizer to fill the groove with a mix of...

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Since our government banned metallic cartridge pistols we UK shooters have had to exercise our ingenuity to keep pistol shooting alive. There are a number of aftermarket cylinders available to convert black powder cap and ball pistols to shoot with nitro powder - very useful for CAS. Also from the C...

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Thanks Perry. Pretty much what I thought on the cylinder side, but how is he getting a flat hammer to dimple a shotgun primer? I put that question to him and people I know who use them. Apparently the standard hammers are narrow enough and hit hard enough to fire shotgun primers reliably. Certainly...

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Here in the UK all us CAS shooters use percussion guns because that's all our government allows us. I've seen many chain fires and become convinced that in most cases the chain fire comes from the caps. One of the worse guns for chain firing is the cap and ball version of the Uberti Cattleman. We h...

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I am lucky enough to be able to shoot at Bisley any time I like with the shooting clubs I belong to, so my Shiloh Sharps, Browning 1886, Martini Henrys and Sniders get a good workout there at least once a month. I am also a qualified NRA Range Conducting Officer so I get to officiate at the internat...

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Here in the UK all us CAS shooters use percussion guns because that's all our government allows us. I've seen many chain fires and become convinced that in most cases the chain fire comes from the caps. One of the worse guns for chain firing is the cap and ball version of the Uberti Cattleman. We ha...

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Black powder £17/lb, Pyrodex £32/lb, 777 £44/lb. Why would I even think of using substitutes? As for cleaning, I have an ultrasonic bath that takes a complete stainless Old Army, minus the grips. Stick it in there with some hot water and a spoonful of Micro and by the time I've downed a pint of Old ...

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I have the UK equivalent mill on order, together with a set of digital readouts.I might convert to CNC at some point but I won't be building a 1911 - 10 years in the clink doesn't appeal.

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Google changed the name of my YouTube channel from perryowens1 to Mike Moore - my real name. Now when you search for "Mike Moore channel" on You Tube you get 618000 results, most of them featuring that fat bloke from Flint, Michigan.

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Hi Bob, Whereabouts in the UK are you located? There are a few UK shooters on this forum. I am in Surrey, up on the North Downs well above the floods. I shoot at ranges in Kent, Surrey and Hampshire as well as traveling all over the UK for CAS matches. Our next match is on Saturday but last time I l...

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Hi Bob, I shoot mainly black powder so I tumble my cases long and hard but with no ill effects.Treading on ejected brass, as often happens with CAS, puts good dinks in - I get them out using a piece of brass rod with a very slow taper turned on it. If I have to shoot an indoor match I use 8 grains o...

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With SPG costing $10 a stick here in the UK I make my own from beeswax, Crisco and Canola oil. I use the technique described by Brent but I find that adding 5% of anhydrous lanolin to the mix makes it stick to the grooves better. Lanolin is the stuff that waterproofs sheep - you can buy it from DIY ...

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Here's mine

It's a long lever model so post-Zulu. The Snider is by John Rigby.

Perry Owens

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I am lucky enough to own an original British Martini-Henry Mk. II, made in 1877. My wife thinks I am strange when I fix bayonets while watching "Zulu". :D "MUST you have that pointy thing on the end of your gun? You are going to stab the ceiling some day!" Better get her one of ...

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This month sees the 50th anniversary of the premier of the film Zulu. Made in a time when political correctness wasn't an industry, violence didn't have to be graphic to make a point and having an empire wasn't something to be ashamed of, it's still as popular today as ever. I hate to think what a H...

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When the programme first started it was about cars and motoring. Now it's just a vehicle for that buffoon Clarkson and his two vacuous sidekicks to indulge their juvenile fantasies whilst insulting as many people and cultures as possible. I rate Clarkson as one below Piers Morgan.

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Great job Roy! Great work and writeup, really appreciate the article on relining the 1873. I have an 1873 in 38-40 in great external shape but the bore is pitted and the chamber has been Bubba'd. Because of this it won't pass UK proof so I can't legally sell it or even give it away. A reline is in ...

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Great work and writeup, really appreciate the article on relining the 1873. I have an 1873 in 38-40 in great external shape but the bore is pitted and the chamber has been Bubba'd. Because of this it won't pass UK proof so I can't legally sell it or even give it away. A reline is in order but no gun...

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I knocked up this crude wad cutter when I ran out of 11 gauge wads. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_2133_zps8da4a3cf.jpg Old brass shell with the flash hole drilled out to take a bolt as a spindle and a slot cut in the side to poke out the cut wads. Spun at speed in a drill pres...

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My new Uberti 1873 slugged at .427 so I size to .428.

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If you just want a satin finish Birchwood Casey Stock Sheen and Conditioner will do it. If you really want to strip the finish Citristrip works as well and smells better than most varnish removers.

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Anyone know what size hex key fits the grub screw that holds the windage knob on to Marbles peep sights? I need to swap around the staffs on some of my sights but, living in a metricated country, I don't have right hex keys for US products. I emailed Marbles but they didn't answer.

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Congratulations GK, welcome to the club for leisured gentlemen. Buying your own vehicle and paying for the fuel is a real downer- I went from a BMW 5 series to a 4 x 4 boneshaker when I retired but the benefits of retirement hugely outweigh the disadvantages. In next to no time you will be thinking ...

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I had a Marbles sight on my Browning 1886 but I wanted to use other posts so I bought the Improved version of the Marbles. I found that the improved sight does not fold as far as the original one did and it gets in the way of my thumb when using the barrel sight. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...

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With 200 different languages spoken by a population of less than half a million Manchester is the third most diverse city in the world. I doubt that many of the inhabitants even know what our national flag is supposed to look like.

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I might have just had a half English Breakfast, I had 2 English Muffins with sausage and eggs. what does a Full English breakfast consist of ? Which Car were You in ? Perry Sausages, eggs,bacon,tomato, black pudding, fried bread, baked beans. Add mushrooms if you want to be posh or swap the beans f...

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Got up early on this beautiful autumn day, even though it's not a shooting day. After a full English breakfast strolled down the hill to watch the oldest motoring event in the world - the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Around 500 pre-1905 cars attempt the 60 mile route from London to the coast....

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I always start the weekend with a fry up, bangers, bacon, eggs, black pudding and tomatoes and sometimes fried bread.... :D Me too. When I lived in New York I had to make my own bangers and black pudding because they just weren't available. The local butcher finally got used to the crazy Englishman...

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I regularly import moulds into the UK from Big Lube, Buffalo Arms and Track of the Wolf. As I understand it the requirement for an export license applies to components of firearms and ammunition plus items of " strategic importance" such as night vision scopes. Your customers in the EU wil...

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BTW, if the bullet works well, do you know where to get a mould of this bullet? I'll eventually be casting my own once I find a good bullet. Brent I get them direct from Dick Dastardly at http://www.biglube.com/ They are aluminium 6-gang types. As others have said, there are probably more accurate ...

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One negative on the Big Lubes from Whyte - He used quite a hard lube and I was finding bits of lube stuck to the target at 25 yds - not good for accuracy. I now cast my own and use a 50/40/10% beeswax/Crisco/canola oil lube and don't get any fliers.

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I use Big Lube 190 grain bullets in my 1890 vintage Winchester 1873. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0696.jpg The Big Lubes are on the right. They are designed for black powder and have huge lube grooves. The bullets on the left are from an old Ideal mould. I found that accuracy...

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Perry - They sure do seem to like CAS shooting in the UK! :D Y2K is interested in a camera like that for his airsoft battles. Do you have any details on it? Thanks, YK Yes, we try to keep the sport alive, even though we can't have cartridge handguns. The camera came from Hong Kong via Ebay and was ...

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Over here many cyclists wear helmet-mounted video cameras so that they can hopefully identify which motorist knocked them off their bike. At less than £25 each these cameras are very useful for analyzing shooter performance in CAS and other shooting disciplines. This is a clip by a shooting buddy wi...

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GK, speaking of Yellowboys, I was in the Lanes Armoury in Brighton the other day and spotted this on the wall. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/16517_zps80218b2f.jpg I thought it was a Uberti but it was an original 1866 in 44RF that had been totally refinished Nice deep blue, shiny b...

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The Spencer Shooting Society web page has some links to Evans information
http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index. ... 226.0.html

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There's a thread about bedrolls on The Shootists, a UK western reenactors site
http://shootists.websitetoolbox.com/thing ... ?&trail=15
Might be some useful info there.

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Bet you 10 quid Mrs.Owens does not read this post. Or when she does, we won't hear from Perry for a while! :shock: Well guys, I have been laid up for a while with severe bruising. Not because the wife read my posts though - I fell off a ladder while installing a new gun safe in the attic! After 4 w...

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" You just shot an unarmed man." " Well, he should have armed himself."

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Does it make a diffrence if an American citizen " sponsers " you? Yeah, Long Island is not typical of America. No it doesn't. For you to get an L1 visa your prospective US employer has to prove that he could not employ an American citizen with the required specialist skills. The visa is f...

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