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    Questions about TC Renegade

    Congrats on your smokepole! Yes, you can add a peep sight, TC makes one as well as other suppliers. I don't much care for the fiberglass ramrod, but they are ok. TC makes an aluminum universal rod thats powder coated. You remove the flex cap on one end, cut it off where you want it, and replace...
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    getting over the flinch

    Make sure your front sight is VERY bright, whether its brass, fiber optic, etc. The trick to getting over the flinch is concentrating intensely on the target.Plant that front bead and concentrate on placing it on target. You should be looking at the target, not the barrel. You will get over it...
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    new gun

    That gun is restocked for a left handed shooter, and quite nicely.
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    Rifles of the Northeastern Pennsylvania area in the 1700s???

    Very good reading, you must be very proud of your lineage. That about sums it up for the area in those days. You would not be setting up a gunshop and hanging out your shingle, thats for sure !
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    Rifles of the Northeastern Pennsylvania area in the 1700s???

    Yes sir Slip, in those days the Conneticut " squatters" were known as Yankees to the Pennsylvanians. AND, 90 years later during the civil war this area had a known sector of southern sympathizers, so real that a detachment of the union army was marched up Fishing Creek( from modern day...
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    Rifles of the Northeastern Pennsylvania area in the 1700s???

    There were undoubtedly guns made here, just nothing large scale in that time frame. Most of your major boroughs this far up the river came after the "Big Runaway" , the last big native american raid. It was not totally safe to set up anywhere north of Fort Augusta (Sunbury) until post 1780. The...
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    Rifles of the Northeastern Pennsylvania area in the 1700s???

    They are fewer and fewer, but if you ever get to attend a true "farm sale" in this area its enlightening. Most of the primitives are Germanic in nature, and if any antique guns are auctioned, they are from colonial southern Pa. I have never seen a "New England" type gun sell at one of these...
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    Rifles of the Northeastern Pennsylvania area in the 1700s???

    From the early to mid 18th century that was no mans land for whites, If they ventured into it they carried what they owned from southern Pa or from England. There was scattered settlement into the 1760's, and surely some gunsmithing, but I suspect not much. A good number of Lancaster and...
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    What do you think of Traditions?

    Friends don't let friends buy junk ! If you have to fiddle with it out of the box it is a sub-standard product. Many shops that sell Traditions INCLUDE a free "tune up" because they know if they don't the customer is going to come back unhappy. Leave it at the flea market, maybe someonre will...
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    What do you think of Traditions?

    Although cheap in the beginning, you will throw money at it constantly until you get it right, then have more in it than a quality gun costs. For $100 more you can buy a quality used flinter this time of year. Just today a TC Renegade went for $185 in my area, but I missed it. I would steer...
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    Help ID a gunmaker

    Yes to both questions. I found some of the makers old friends who said early in his career he put favorite aspects of colonial makers into his work. The wrist area is similiar to Schroyer guns, the things you pointed out to Haines. Just a beautiful example of a longrifle !
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    Help ID a gunmaker

    OK I got the pics figured out, now I am excited to get some feedback from you all. This is what I have learned: Brass is all hand cast and filed to fit, wood is scraped not sanded, finish is period type, "school" is Lancaster, carving and engraving is well executed. Does this rifle bring to mind...
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    Help ID a gunmaker

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