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    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    I appreciate your advice, and I appreciate you not trying to tell me to buy a kit. This is a marathon for me, not a sprint. 100% I hear you. I get that some guys want the end result and paint by numbers is exactly the right amount of investment to have the satisfaction. I'm not that guy...
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    The PA ‘One-of-a-Kind’ Flintlock Deer Season Turns 50!

    I appreciate everyone who made this season happen and who have kept it going all these years. There is something really special that I really enjoy about it.
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    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    I'm looking forward to get home and look at those pics on a screen bigger than 3x6 and really study them. I'm supposed to be working, but keep pulling them up on my phone. This rifle very much seems to embody what I had in mind and didn't have to vocabulary to describe. It's so much more with...
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    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    Thank you, this is exactly the type of wisdom and knowledge - and direction I was hoping to receive in reply. What I'm really lacking is the historical knowledge (and the humility that should talk me out of it 😁), and the experience of holding a variety of period longrifles in my hands to...
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    Historically accurate example of Flint, Full stock, hooked breech, barrel wedges?

    I could use some direction, I don't know enough to even know what to search for. I want to try building my own longrifle, but, given the effort involved, I'd like it to be as historically accurate as possible for me to do given my skill level and knowledge. I'm not a historian, or even amateur...
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    My first attempt at Rococo

    I'm a hobby woodworker. When it comes to hand tools, and it always does when precision is involved, sharp is probably the 2nd most important thing. First is to not put anything soft or fleshy in front of the business end, eventually a slip will happen, chisels are one of the biggest causes of...
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    Do you gut your deer?

    I've never heard of that, most of our deer are 1/2 mile in the woods or more, I wouldn't want to drag the guts that far. I've been even thinking about boning it out in the field and packing it back in a meat bag so I could avoid the weight of the hide and bones
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    My first attempt at Rococo

    Wow, well done! I've done some carving before - not guns, I did a jewelry box. I found the actual carving to be easy to do exactly what I drew - as long as I didn't rush, stopped to strop, and braced for any slips. The design though, that was the hard part, drawing something that looked good...
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    My first attempt at Rococo

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    Is this leading?

    Hi folks, I made the mistake of putting a borescope down my barrel. It's a long story but I expected a flat plain breech , I didn't know about the "patent breech" and was alarmed when I realized my ramrod didn't actually reach down to the touch hole. Anyhow, I learned that it's a lot uglier...
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    Hello from Pittsburgh

    Nice, not sure why, but I expected everyone to be far away. I'm in Franklin Park
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    Hello from Pittsburgh

    Hi Everyone, I've been creeping around for a few months and figured it's time to say hello. I'm new to BP firearms, but I've been shooting modern firearms my whole life. .22 rifle team when I was 10 through high school. military for a few years and a year in the sandbox. A year after I got...
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