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  1. Hiverano

    Shooting the New Trade Gun

    I have a copy of a 1850's original NW gun in 50 caliber with no rear sight like the original. Testing at the range with round ball we are using the tang screw for alignment we are 6 inches to the right and 4 inches low at 50 yards off the bench, then its Kentucky windage comes into play. So much...
  2. Hiverano

    What is this screw?

    correct ...
  3. Hiverano

    What is this screw?

    The screw behind the trigger on the left (in middle of triggers) is used to fine tune your set trigger),
  4. Hiverano

    Log Cabin Shop good peoples

    Liza Kindig is one of my favorote people to deal with, nice person and quality goods,
  5. Hiverano

    The Sherriff got it done!

    Back in the mid 1960's lived in a rooming house with three other guys, the old lady that owned the place was on the first floor, She kept an eye on her boys (we were her boys) and guarded the yard, chicken house and our vehicles in the alley. Never gave it much thought until late one night we...
  6. Hiverano

    Spanish trade guns?

    Someone asked about the better known manufacturers of North West Trade Guns. This is an example of some of the manufacturers of listed Ordnance Common Guns, some showing the use of the India-Pattern steel spring finial on the lock with Ordnance double line engraving and the two styles of...
  7. Hiverano

    Paper Cartridge for Trade Guns??

    This is an interesting post, something to think about for the NW gun folks. Thank you for the question and replies guys. Buck
  8. Hiverano

    The last of the trade guns .

    Hanson told us they were still made into the early 1900, but now they looked like an H&R single shot shotgun, the museum had several examples of these NW Trade Guns. I screwed up as he wanted to sell me one and I passed on it !@#$%
  9. Hiverano

    The last of the trade guns .

    "They had a rear sight made by curling up metal on the top flat and filing a notch in it." I have several NW guns (reprodustions and originals) two have the curled up metal with a files notch in them - this methods works better than trying to sight off the tang screw as seen in the video just...
  10. Hiverano

    Trade gun photos please....

    I'll share a few items if interested on thes guns from one of my books that Kindle published. If you're a fan of the North West Trade Gun, reading everything available by Hanson, Hamilton and other authors, now republished for it's 3rd printing "Success in the North American Fur Trade" is now...
  11. Hiverano

    Trade gun photos please....

    Green River Rifle Works & Green River Rifle Works Collectors Association Guns This is a copy of an original 1850's NW tradegun right down to the size of the original's bore - a .50 caliber smoothbore. Hanson thought it was built to reach out (longer range) with the buffalo becoming wary of...
  12. Hiverano

    The Sherriff got it done!

    We are like "Sparkplug" rarely buy meat, wife doesn't like deer or elk but will eat buffalo. That said I go with old friends of 40-50 years on deer or elk hunts as camp cook. And take them once a year on our primitive buffalo hunt in Kansas on a private 21 section ranch. The owner usually has a...
  13. Hiverano

    Help needed with age and identification of a Long Rifle

    I think your reply is correct Phil when reviewing the pictures shown and conditions of everything.
  14. Hiverano

    Help needed with age and identification of a Long Rifle

    I would agree with Notchy Bob and Mike Brooks, probably a restock rifle.
  15. Hiverano

    I Told a Big, Fat Lie a Couple of Weeks Ago

    We are doing the same with feeding the animals in the wild ... .
  16. Hiverano

    Cow Elk Load

    I have a new NW Trade Gun (with no rear sight like most originals), copied from a gun in a Denver museum. With testing off the bench its shooting to the right about 4 inches and 8 inches low. Seems it shoots the same with various powder charges. We need to figure out a way to use "Kentucky...
  17. Hiverano

    Cow Elk Load

    Amen, Mike in FL ...
  18. Hiverano

    Greetings from PA

    Same here in CO and UT our state forests offer plots of land with fewer people in the late seasons.
  19. Hiverano

    Greetings from PA

    You better learn allot about flintlocks, that's all you can hunt with in your state. FLINTLOCKS ONLY. What about "Public Lands", should be still available, use to hunt those tracks around York and Lancaster? .
  20. Hiverano

    Shooting the New Trade Gun

    GRRW a few of these guns, GRRW Collectors Association built only one NW Trade Gun (an H.E. Leman 1840's style copied from one seen in a museum). This gun was tested by Frontier-Gander (a member here) see video. This was the last gun built by Doc White, finished just a few months before his passing.
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