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    bobanderson is online now
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    Contact Larry Flees on the 111th OVI to have a Sam Dobbin style gas check job done. Larry will install a new fixed chamber sleeve and an ampco bronze gas check plate that is held tight by a neoprene rubber o-ring.
    The result is a leak proof seal that you can shoot all day long and clean easily. The o-rings are commonly available and CHEAP!
    If I hadn't fallen head over heels in like with a beautiful Colt Detective Special, a friend of mine on Chiswell's Exiles wouldn't be taunting me with my slick shooting Pedersoli Sharps.
    Don't worry. He'll want something else of mine some day.
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    About that "chamber bushing" found in the replica (and original) Sharps.

    A few years ago I ran across an article written by a "muzzleloading expert." He had been loaned a replica Sharps to test and then write an online article about.

    For whatever reason, that new Sharps he had been loaned WAS MISSING THE CHAMBER BUSHING....and he didn't know any better. Hence, when he got to the range he seated a bullet in the breech and then FILLED UP THE CHAMBER SPACE BEHIND THE BULLET WITH BLACK POWDER!

    He mentioned in his article, that the "recoil was excessive."

    Thank God that Sharps have a very STRONG breech to protect "experts" like that!

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    I have the Pedersoli removal tool - it was a waste of money. This however, works like a charm.

    https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/BK_7769248

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