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Check out this toothy young fellow; not today, but yesterday. I spotted him from a long way off as he was rooting around the fringes of a lagoon - his blackness against the green made him stand out. I had to veer wide around to get the wind in my favour, which put me looking at his rear end. As he was engaged head down, hoeing into the mud for whatever delicacy he was enjoying, lip-smacking and crunching away, I was able to get really close. The family jewels were presented like an international target, so from 20 metres using a six o'clock hold, he copped a .576 (58 cal) 500gn minie just under the tail between the hams; poor blighter's rear end nearly overtook his front. The projectile must have clipped a pelvic bone, changing direction and exiting just behind his front left leg. He succumbed quite spectacularly.

Cheers, Pete

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Lord that is one UGLY hog. Nice hunting!
 
Thank you for your input. However, in this case, I have to respectfully disagree. For this particular product, Walmart gets in one shipment of them per year. I don't think they are on an auto reorder system. If that were the case, these Walmarts would all have caps.
I don't think there's any need for me to buy all the caps if I don't need them anyway. Someone will be happy that I left a few.
But, I do know what you were talking about when you mentioned usage. I was in purchasing and inventory control for 23 years. I am very familiar with the subject.
Thanks again.
before I retired from Federal Cartridge after 21 + years for us to get the Wal Mart contract we had to install a separate computer system that tracked sales at all of their stores and ship when ever they hit the reorder point 1 box or a case no matter. the higher ups finally figured that it wasn't worth the extra effort
 
I put an auction bid in on this German mountain carbine 1830. It’s nice but , the hammer??? , and the 23” .5 bore barrel will only give me 1200 ft sec. I put in a decent bid, but finding out I was £4500 on my card, I did a wobbly and reduced my bid . I’ll probably loose it, but then it’s not exactly what I want, but I want it !!!!!. Me a poor old pensioner . It been raining so hard for days southern England , must have depressed me. Ha ha. Enjoy

Ps note the typical wooden trigger guard of that time
 

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Shot the Kibler Colonial .58 cal smoothbore using the paper cartridges posted previously. Forgot to take my iPad, so sorry, no pics. Cartridges worked acceptably well, so will standardize the fabrication technique used for my other muzzleloaders for which paper cartridge loading might be applicable.
 
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