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Actually expected a better argument/discussion on dry firing with sear in the tumbler half cock notch from you than “They Built the Rifles, i trust that they know how to properly Set their Triggers. Until they say different, i will continue to follow THEIR Directions, for setting THEIR...

Started with Swing-Lock years ago when they used my barrel drop to make full form die and never looked back. Why would I redo or recommend something I have never tried? Hankins may be the best thing since sliced bread, but my Swing-Lock setup works great for me. Forming for four barrels...

Ok, I hit a nerve. Sorry. Not sure how many a ton of TCs would be, plus surprised you have obviously never set an RE Davis trigger. Seems odd. Most of my TCs have Davis triggers. Oh well. Personally have only seen or handled four TC locks that had broken half cock positions on their tumblers...

I bit the bullet on a number of Swing-Locks a number of years ago. Full form and smooth. You can tweak the Lees, but it’s a one way deadend street proposition, as you can only enlarge them. No backing up. Feeding four different barrels with the Swing-Locks I have. Something else to consider, if...

FYI, I am talking about having used smokeless duplex loads. Curious what attraction of the Deep Curl is, not that it really matters? Guess it’s something you will have to try if you want to find out how they work. If you already have the bullets, you just need a Lee die or someone local with...

You could get a Lee sizing die (~$20~) a little loose for your barrel and hone the diameter up until you get the fit you want instead laying out money for a Swing-Lock if you just want to try something. And agree you will need a wad to get accuracy with a smooth land rider, no different than...

Sitting a tree stand this afternoon (nothing moving) and was looking at some older posts. Got to this one. There is a lot of crap and misinformation about muzzleloaders on the internet, that we can all agree on. I expect to see it and usually not surprised with what I find, but I do not expect...

Don’t know the answer to your question, but do you also happen to have a full form Swing-Lock die? By accident, found that full formed bullets for my 45 caliber Pacnor Barrel fit my GM fast twist barrels, be it a bit loose. Didn’t try to adjust die so they would tighten up, as all I run in my...

Idahoron got me started on this RCBS bullet for 45 caliber paperpatching (https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010281312) years ago. Never looked back. Tried others, but just found nothing as good, let alone better. Maybe a better choice is out there, just haven’t found it, at least out to 300 yards.

Bullets I use come out of a RCBS 11 mm mold and measure .446/.447”. Use an adjustable Swing-Lock die after applying onion skin to get the ‘perfect’ diameter. I’ve got three of the 45 cal GM LRH drop in barrels with the 1-30 twist. Love them. Got one setup for 300 yards, thinking ‘going long’...

Looking at OPs other posts it appears he wants to use paper patched bullets in a 45 caliber TC Hawken. .450” is too large, while .429” is undersized. Depending on alloy, he may get the .450” to go sans paper. I use .446” diameter bullets (40:1 alloy) and two wraps of 9# onion skin, then size to...

.44 caliber revolver bullets are .429” diameter.

You forgot smokeless muzzleloaders.... come on, you jump from 1850 or so technology to 2019. Nearly 170 years. A lot of progress/development has happened, especially in the past thirty years or so. Then act surprised things have changed. It is your job to understand things. The world isn’t...

Do you use an overpowder wad? Find I get leading in the barrel if I don’t. Back to OP. One thing I noticed with tighter sabots is that they quickly get real tough to load with Pyrodox when compared to 777 or even Swiss.

Good job. Very few here make a living as sidelock gunsmith (not sure who they are). The rest are amateurs. Not a very exclusive club. Guessing you will fit right in.

Thought I hit the send button late yesterday, but obviously didn’t. Found myself hinking about shiming the lock and had a question. Thought about lock protruding.06 or so away from the barrel post toothpick shimming. Imagined the .06” or so gap may be creating quite the crap trap for powder...

Agreed with your toothpick solution, but apparently insulting to you in some way. So what is your recommended low-tech less than 30 minute fix to move hammer .050 to .060”?

Ok, toothpicks it is, they come a 1000 or so in a typical package. If it works and you lose it there are plenty more. No machine tools. Maybe a couple of wacks with a piece of firewood while hammer is on the lock mounted on gun. No point removing hammer from lock and holding in a vice (aka, a...

If I am not mistaken, either TC or CVA (maybe both), back in the day, told you in their kit instructions to heat and bend the hammer if it didn’t line up with the nipple. Here are photos of a TC hammer that I bent to clear a tang mounted Lyman 57 sight. Held it in a vice, heated to red with a...

TC changed their design sometime in the 1990s I believe on their sidelocks from just wood screws holding the barrel tang to the stock to having a machine screw going through the tang/stock, which threaded into trigger plate or guard. Helped eliminate stock cracking some were experiencing.