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    Last of the Mohicans

    The Mohicanpress website has a great page with lots of pics of the set at Lake James for the filming of the siege. The Filming at Lake James
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    Last of the Mohicans

    The seige was shot at Lake James, NC. An area was cleared near the shore, a fort and trenchworks built, and then everything was dismantled after shooting. They replanted the area with trees, and today you'd never know there was once a fort there.
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    Ponderin' on the future

    I've been thinking about why that is. In my experience, during my teens I had a lot of time, not much to tie me down, and nothing to spend my money on except muzzleloading and reenacting. So in my late teens I was very active in ML and reenacting. Then life came along. College, especially moving...
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    Ponderin' on the future

    I'm 26, and started muzzleloading when I was 13 with a repro M1861 Springfield. Put together my first flintlock rifle from a Jim Chambers kit when I was 17.
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    Crucible of War

    It's serious scholarly history, and the very best single volume available on the Seven Years' War.
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    White Devil

    Stephen Brumwell is a very good historian. His previous book "Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763" is another great resource for the F&I War reenactor/history buff.
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    Washington on History Channel

    Don't forget "Escanaba in da Moonlight," eh. :winking:
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    New Blackbeard Movie

    The trailer can be seen here .
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    At which age did you start muzzleloading?

    I was 12 or 13, when I got a repro M1861 Springfield at a Civil War reenactment. I was a big Civil War buff at that age. Took it to a range every once in awhile for target shooting. When I was 17 I built a Jim Chambers kit, .58 Christian Spring/Edward Marshall rifle. And a year later I got a...
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    What you reading in these cold days?

    C.V. Wedgewood's "The Thirty Years War."
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    What kind of muzzleloader

    .58 NSW Early English trade gun with 36" barrel.
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    Boris Karloff Movie

    Unconquered (1947)
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    Rev War movies

    Revolution in VHS.
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    Rev War movies

    Yeah, in 1985. Donald Sutherland plays a British sargeant in it. Annie Lennox even makes a brief appearance. It's a bit dated, and there might be a close up or two of a percussian gun, but it's really quite good. I think it has a better story than the Patriot, and does a better job of showing...
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    How & When did you start in Muzzlelaoding, or Shooting Muzzloaders

    I was a big fan of Davy Crockett and the Swampfox on tv when I was a kid. Except I was watching them as rebroadcasts in the mid 80s, not the 50s. When Ken Burns' "The Civil War" came out I was 9 or 10 years old and was instantly hooked on history. I was a huge Civil War buff for years after...
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    "The New World" movie, first review

    Not only matchlocks, but wheelocks and snaphaunces too! :grin: I enjoyed the film, but I'm also a fan of Malick's unique style. Malick is the kind of director you either hate or like. So I would recommend it to anyone as long as they know what they're getting into. If you saw "The Thin Red Line"...
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    The War that made America parts 1&2 a small review

    Being that this is a WQED (Pittsburgh) production and accused of focusing too much on Georgie, I'm afraid that it will focus too much on PA. But then again, how you can focus on one area of the F&I War in only 4 hours is a bit of a mystery. :winking: I'd prefer to see it focus on the Lake...
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    french amber flints

    Probably the same thing you're thinking of. I guess "machine cut" may be more of an archaeological term. And it looks like I may have been mistaken by labeling them "English." Sorry. The dark gray cut flints that TOW sells are from Arkansas, not England.
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    french amber flints

    A machine cut flint is a flint cut with a blade rather than knapped. A cut flint has flat surfaces and square angles. A knapped flint or spall has irregular surfaces and angles.
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    french amber flints

    I studied the historical archaeology of colonial American sites while in college. At most 18th century military site (including British) French amber flints and spalls almost always outnumber English grays. The usage of dark gray English flints did not surpass the usage of French ambers until...
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