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Sidelock
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Daryl, I haven’t the slightest idea what it was designed for. It does look like it would be a great short starter for a round ball muzzleloader. I can see no possible use for a pin fire.
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The indentations on the "head" leads one to believe it was tapped with a mallet of some sort to seat whatever it was seating. I believe it was a ball/conical. I can see no reason the apply a mallet to a tool used to seat wads in a shot shell.
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I'm just a new user, old lurker, but it does look like a ball starter. The dents suggest that it was also useful as a brass hammer of sorts. Possibly to drive out the wedge used to hold the barrel on.
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The dents are most likely from a mallet being used on it to seat a tight fitting ball in the muzzle.
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The dents are most likely from a mallet being used on it to seat a tight fitting ball in the muzzle. Just curious Stanton, are you a muzzle loader?
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The dents are most likely from a mallet being used on it to seat a tight fitting ball in the muzzle. Just curious Stanton, are you a muzzle loader? Yes, Ken. Competed in NMLRA competition rifle (round ball) matches for a long time, somewhat successfully. Won several state championships, and shot a 50/50 at Friendship. (Everybody wants one of those easy "50" Friendship patches ) Also hunted deer with a couple of my roundball rifles until I lost interest in deer hunting, and shot doves and wild quail with muzzleloading double shotguns. All that is mostly in my past, though I do pull a front stuffer out every now and then and use it.
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Friendship Spring match is going on this week. Heading over there today if the weather is not too hot to look around and buy a bit of black powder for dove and duck season. End next weekend. Suspect it will be packed after most of a year off for too many. 50/50 is one fine achievement. Right up there with 15/15 dove shooting, day two, with 15 shells.
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