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    cabela's hawken

    i'll keep the comb/recoil issue in mind, kurt. i'm used to shooting hot magnums from a rifle with a high comb, so we'll see how it goes. i've been tossing the .50/.54/.58 issue around in my head, and since i'm going to be getting molds for my blackpowder guns, ammunition isn't a problem. wads...
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    Brass canteens

    well, there's two ways to reply to that... one is the overblown, mildly humorous and somewhat scathing reply. the other is the fairly serious reply that might not be on topic. i think i'll go for mostly serious. i've got this particular 'thing' about my gear. i don't pack a single item that...
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    cabela's hawken

    i'm feeling better and better about choosing the cabela's gun. sights aside, it seems that the big gripes with it and the lyman guns are the usual flintlock gripes, getting reliable ignition/proper flint wear/fast spark/etc that come with just about all flintlocks. now, i suppose, my other...
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    Brass canteens

    i'll agree that brass/copper would be no replacement for boiling/purifying. but out in the wilderness, you don't have to worry about farm poisons so much, thankfully. but no, it wouldn't do much at all to stop parasites. thought it was just an interesting thing, that folks in undeveloped...
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    Hunting with a Tomahawk

    ooo, well put. of course, it's easy to whittle up a new handle. the worry would be the blade. for an old-tyme moutain man, he'd have had one, maybe two heads, but a plethora of handles around, they'd just take a little work. let's not forget that with exceptions, handles were pretty spartan and...
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    cabela's hawken

    i hadn't, but i'll keep it in mind. i'm kind of sold on cabela's hawken, it seems to offer everything i'm looking for without having to do any special ordering, from the same manufacturer lyman uses, so odds are pretty good i'm going to be getting the same parts. it would seem the only complaint...
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    Flintlock kits?

    it looks squirrelly i agree. not really sure which to go with. i will say though that the guys from the possibles shop have been pretty spot on about answering emails/etc.
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    Flintlock kits?

    not to rain on the parade... http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/051/RipOff0051213.htm and a google search(god i love the information age) gives very lukewarm builder's reviews and opinions of deer creek kits. get what you pay for indeed... in addition to that report, deer creek has about...
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    Brass canteens

    quite likely. i'll look into it.
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    Stove in Pyramid Tent??

    be sure to get a nice stove jack. places like titanium goat sell pre-made ones, if you tell them the angle of your tent roof they'll cut the hole at the right shape to fit the pipe. double walled pipe also helps. i myself am a fair hand with CAD, so i just modeled the stove jack for my 8x8...
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    Hunting with a Tomahawk

    see, in response to the off-target(pun intended) part of the discussion... that's why i keep a small, low-velocity airgun handy, and load it with a wad of play-doh. it's non-toxic, non-lethal(at the distances i use it at), and since i use hunter-safety orange, i know whose pets have been getting...
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    Flintlock kits?

    i'll agree with all of the above, i haven't seen a kit retail online or otherwise for less than 200-250 dollars. for the really fine kits you're looking at double that and up. some folks might opine, that it's better to start buying the parts and hand-fit them together. i myself built a...
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    Brass canteens

    whilst flipping through a book on camping and wilderness survival(that's actually the title, BTW), i came across an interesting tidbit. brass, as it turns out, has some antibacterial properties. it's apparently the copper leaching into the water. bacteria like E. Coli can't survive for any...
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    cabela's hawken

    fair enough. i imagine i'll see how it is. if it comes down to it, i have the ability to carve myself a stock, thank goodness.
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    cabela's hawken

    recoil's not a worry,i qual'd on the barret .50BMG while i was in the service and regularly hunted with a .300 winmag. seems like the main issue is the sights(and like i said, i'm thinking of going straight to peep sights, and even if i don't i should be able to get the provided sights into...
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    Flintlock kits?

    http://www.possibleshop.com/ they've got a really nice selection of different pistols, as well as most of the accessories you could ever want. i intend to go through them for a lot of the bits-n-bobs, though cabela's has a better price(by six bucks) on lee roundball molds.
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    cabela's hawken

    i've been planning on using goex powder in the classic 2f/4f setup(it's tempting to make my own, but i lack a good source of sulfur right now) so i doubt i'll have problems there. hm... 1:32, huh? sounds fun, but maybe a little fast for .50 cal blackpowder. i think i like the 1:48, seems like a...
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    cabela's hawken

    but, is it a single set trigger, or just a single trigger? i know it's nitpicking, but i like set triggers for long guns.
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    cabela's hawken

    okay, well, since that last statement of mine seemed to take a while:P it looks like i've made a fairly good choice, overall. my single gripe about the plains rifle is the rifling, the extra barrel length doesn't particularly bother me. I'm looking to shoot a greater variety of loads than...
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    cabela's hawken

    now, can anyone tell me if the lyman trade gun comes with set triggers? i've used them for years on several guns, and find single or double set triggers to be quite the useful thing for taking prepared shots. i know the plains rifle does, though the rifling is a bit slower(1:60 as opposed to...
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