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    Possible gunpowder related tragedy

    More speculation here, but seems LIKELY there must have been a sizable quantity of powder on their reloading bench? I always make it a point to have nothing at mine except the powder in the dispenser, and the only primers are in the feeder. Everything else is put away in a separate room. And...
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    Alpha gal strikes again!

    My brother was on the gun line offshore Vietnam in 1966 aboard a destroyer and 1968 aboard a heavy cruiser. I believe they came in close to shore many times, including close in at Da Nang. He developed a rash while aboard the cruiser. The corpsmen thought he had some kind of a tropical fungus...
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    Another shipping war story….

    I pretty much do something like that — I make the payments electronically from my bank account, online. I don't want the bank to do it automatically because — I am a control freak. The only bills I pay the old fashioned way are for local companies that do not bank electronically, like my local...
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    Another shipping war story….

    They suck everywhere. I frequently get mail for my neighbors and they for me. When I have an bill to pay, I no longer put it in my mailbox but drive to the post office and put it in the box there. I suspect my Mailman has dyslexia; both with letters and numbers. He seems like a nice guy but if...
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    Eye injuries from flintlock?

    I have often thought also about soldiers in close ranks firing volley after volley. Perhaps some got excited and double charged their pieces and filled the pans to overflowing. Imagine the flash and the boom of such an overcharged musket right beside your ear! And if somebody REALLY over did...
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    Eye injuries from flintlock?

    I have found that my Charleville fires reliably with a smaller, rather than larger mound of 3F priming powder. If I am aware of heat from the flash, and bits of burning powder hitting my cheek — I used too much.
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    Please help identify this cannon

    I know very little about cannons, but just looking at it — Whoever designed and built this thing was really scared of it blowing up when fired. That's why the barrel is so large and the bore so small by comparison; not to mention all the bands running around its circumference. I bet the thing...
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    The real story about Hugh Glass Mountain Man & Grizzly attack...

    I believe "Man In The Wilderness" released in 1971 is more accurate. It starred Richard Harris as Glass.
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    SOLD Native Buffalo Trade Necklace

    I can understand how living on the Reservation with your own tribe — really an extended family, I suppose — gives a sense of belonging to many Native People. But I am glad to hear about Native People living out here with us Pale Faces rather than on Reservations. From what I understand, they...
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    .36 Colt Navy that powerful??????

    One of my great great uncles serving in the Union Army was shot through the chest in the Second Battle of Bull Run. Still alive, he dragged himself out of the open and into hiding under some bushes. After a day or so he regained consciousness and further revived himself with some coffee still...
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    Flame-Thrower

    OK, I can't help it...
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    DAISY PATCHES FROM OCTOBER COUNTRY

    I use them too, if I am not using paper cartridges in my Charleville. The daisy cut patches fold nicely around the ball and make it easier to ram them home.
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    Gunners Mate Drinkwater reporting aboard, Sir.

    Welcome to you from neighboring New Hampshire. BUT I MUST point out a minor inaccuracy in your intro. Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers were native to New Hampshire and without doubt, many of the men came from Massachusetts — but they did NOT call Vermont home. During the French and Indian...
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    How many years Muzzleloading experience?

    About 4 years of shooting my Charleville. AND — about 43 years looking at it hanging over the fireplace and saying, one of these days I should go shoot that thing...
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    Gun from Civil War found in trash can at Gettysburg Walmart

    This is not the first time a "journalist" made a fool of himself by NOT doing a simple search on the internet.
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    Vent pick- just how small?

    I picked up a number of wild turkey feathers a couple of years ago that the birds had shed. I have kept them since, thinking I will find a use for them sometime. Am I a lawbreaker?
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    Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!

    LIke a dust explosion in a grain silo. Very rare in this scenario, I would think... I am reminded of the old advice; The only way to be COMPLETELY SAFE is to stay in bed. But even then a tree could come through your roof and get you...
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    Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!

    I doubt that would be a problem — any more than an old time hunter chasing a wounded deer and the powder in his powder horn exploding because his running over rough ground shook it up?
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    Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!

    Some time ago I had accidentally spilled some black powder on the floor of my basement. I swept it up but got it mixed with some dirt, so I did not want to put it back into the container it came from. SO, I decided to try an experiment. You know all those old movies that show the hero goes...
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    Help! with cleaning my musket

    It just seems to me to be the best way to guarantee everything gets clean and to avoid rust? If had a Tower Musket, I would not take it all the way down either, but a Charleville is so easy to disassemble, I have always done it.
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