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  1. J

    Wild mushrooms

    All, PLEASE be very very careful. I once had an old botany professor at university (he was seriously about 70 at the time) and he used to LOVE hiking around the mountains of Utah to pick morels. When I asked him why he loved them so much in particular, he said it was because this was the...
  2. J

    building a well-fitting stock

    Agreed! I have an 8 bore (15+" LOP) and if I took the thumb from over the top of the wrist and fired (273 grains of FF), it would likely wind up behind me. A proper LOP keeps the thumb off the nose when the rifle is mounted comfortably. Simple as that. And yes my LOP is different when I...
  3. J

    Your honestly opinion about this Jaeger

    Buy it...shoot it...hunt with it. Overdone, for sure, but that wasn't uncommon with Jaeger's was it? Would be just the thing to take to Germany on a wild boar hunt. If I had the money to buy this piece, I would do just that. :) Buffler Runner
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    Bison hunts? What is your opinion?

    Brown Bear, Out of curiosity, what are these guys charging for their ranch hunt? I can definitely understand people lacking the desire to wait to draw in places like Delta Junction but I've just reached a point where if it comes down to paying $4K to hunt behind a fence (regardless of how big...
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    Bison hunts? What is your opinion?

    REAL bison hunting is rare. You are really limited really to... 1) The House Rock hunt in Northern Arizona (nothing like the "shoot this one" AZ hunt mentioned above). Bison have lately been migrating into the Grand Canyon park....can't hunt there. :( 2) The Yukon Territory (Champagne and...
  6. J

    Set the 'Wayback Machine'

    50s Heck...I look at what my father was making in the mid 70s and wonder how he managed a wife, car, house, kid etc. Anything near $300 even then would have been a pretty fair bit of cash. John
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    Westley Richards- Rare 8-Bore Big Game Double Rifle, ca. 1850

    Wonder what made it so special? A new "Royal" in that calibre runs around $160K USD as per H&H's web site. Of course, H&H scope mounts are a $7600 option on that rifle so you never know what kind of stuff the original client ordered to pump up the price. The real scary thing is that, when you...
  8. J

    Westley Richards- Rare 8-Bore Big Game Double Rifle, ca. 1850

    Not to be argumentative in the least but conversely, I have seen some nice "named" double 8 breech loaders in the last year go in the high teens to low 20s. Two were very nifty (and rare) H&H paradox guns. Arguing against my own point, there is also a sidelock toplever hammerless H&H 8 bore...
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    Westley Richards- Rare 8-Bore Big Game Double Rifle, ca. 1850

    :shocked2: Neat rifle...ridiculous price. I love my front stuffers but anyone can buy a British nitro double from "between the wars" and in a popular calibre for substantially less money. IMO, $25K for a "non-original" gun of this sort nearly constitutes thievery on the part of Drake. Of...
  10. J

    Voortrekkers on Schanskopd

    Much fewer four ton critters willing to stomp you into strawberry jam running around the western US! :)
  11. J

    The 2 Bore

    Interesting article here on the guns of the African pioneers.
  12. J

    The 2 Bore

    Woops, sorry about the bad link and my apologies to Jim for the misspelling of his name. Back to the topic at hand, October Country did make 8 and 4 bore rifles but I am under the impression that this is no longer the case. Anyway, it is no huge loss as they were priced similarly to Jim's...
  13. J

    The 2 Bore

    I think the myth of the two bore in Africa is perpetuated by the writings of Samuel White Baker which describe his using a half pound slug. Of course, it was a conical and being flung from a four bore. I own an eight bore made by Jim Gefroh in Colorado and it is as much fun as I really need...
  14. J

    History of LARGE bore flintlocks?

    Billy, Thanks so much for the compliments! She shoots as nice as she looks, thankfully. Just a piece of advice...for your target work I highly recommend that you build yourself a set of shooting sticks. Just go to Home Depot and get yourself some 6' lengths of bamboo and lash them together...
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    History of LARGE bore flintlocks?

    Billy, VERY nice rifle you have there! Below is a photo of the percussion 8-bore that Jim made for me about a year ago. Very plain compared to yours but she shoots like a champ. You're sure gonna love shooting your new rifle I can tell you that. Seriously, 200 grains of powder is a quite...
  16. J

    Buffalo with .50 GPR

    Having hunted more than a few buffalo, I have to say that, in today's world of once in a lifetime opportunitites, where people pay to hunt, or there exists a tangible penalty for animals wounded and lost, a .50 cal. ML is marginal at the VERY best for the task at hand. In the 19th century, if a...
  17. J

    any 4 bore shooters out there?

    It sure is a different world....but honestly I'm not sure if it's more different (from my upbringing) inside or outside AUC's walls. I don't get to Giza very often but I think I know where you were. Of course, Felfela may be everywhere for all I know. I've actually taken to street food...
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    any 4 bore shooters out there?

    Sala'am Alekum, Whitetrash! La'a! Arabi....mish mumkin hina! Mafish! Hallas! :) I have been here a little under two years now and can argue with cab drivers and shop keepers over prices but that's about the extent of my Arabic (beyond the mandatory 40 or 50 greetings that Egyptians use all...
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    any 4 bore shooters out there?

    Whitetrash, Contact Jim Gefroh in Ft. Collins Colorado. He manufactures English and Jaeger style four and eight bore rifles of VERY high quality. He can either help you with a rifle or help you with any of the accesories you might need to feed such a beast. He built my eight bore and is a...
  20. J

    New Rifle.....

    Thanks for the compliments. I have no idea what the rifle weighs at this point since it and I are still on different continents (for another couple of weeks). I did tell Jim to hold off on installing a mercury recoil reducer in the stock at this point as I want to see how it balances first. I...
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