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    Length of your season?

    Illinois, southern zone: 1st shotgun season is the second weekend in November, Friday Saturday and Sunday. Second shotgun season is the weekend after Thanksgiving, Thursday- Sunday. Muzzleloader season is the weekend after 2nd shotgun, also the first weekend in December. It is a four day...
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    How many combine camping with hunting?

    I do a solitary voyage up a creek each year for a weekend of isolation and hunt-camping in the Shawnee National Forest. I pick a flat spot between the creek and a steep bank, and build a fire between the bank and a driftwood shelter. Last year, I sat up camp in the afternoon, went bow-hunting...
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    Did I hurt my barrel?

    theguncellar......Thank you for giving those inspection procedures
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    Did I hurt my barrel?

    Okay, maybe I did forget the ball altogether because you just described everything I experienced. Yes, there was excess fouling and a heck of a time pulling the ramrod out when I went to swab it after the shot. I couldn't imagine why I wouldn't feel the slightest of recoil, but now it's all...
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    Did I hurt my barrel?

    Well darn it! Stupidity struck again. Yesterday I shot with 90 grains of Goex through the .54 GPR. About the fifth shot, BOOM with no kick. I immediately realized my mistake. Never in my life have I short started the projectile, not even when I cut my teeth on in-li...., well, you know. Not...
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    Homemade Target Options?

    A carpenter's target goes something like this: An old sawhorse with an irregular plywood cut-off left over from the job slipped in between the cross-braces of the horse to hold it verticle. On the plywood I nail a peice of fanboard styrofoam insulation (left over from the job, of coarse) shaped...
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    Who Made The Rifle Heston Is Holding

    I know where it's at. I saw it in Dixie Gun Works a couple of weeks ago. No info on the builder, though, unless I overlooked it.
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    guided hunts.

    You're not in the wrong as far as I'm concerned. I don't blame landowners, unless they are blatently trying to block off a public access to public ground. The bourdon should be on the government, not the landowner, to make sure public land is accessible. But in a way, it's not a dogmatic issue...
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    guided hunts.

    Not just a western thing. I live near 260 land-locked acres of National Forest. It is only hunted by Illinois first-season shotgun hunters (3 days), out-of-town friends/family of the landowners. The rest of the seasons, it's all mine. I don't have permission to access, never asked, don't need...
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    Percussion problem

    Now that I dug this thread from its grave, here's an update. I finally got a chance to shoot today, now that I've got a cleaning ramrod to replace the one I broke. I filed around the nipple, which solved the problem for a while, then it happened again after several unhindered shots. So I filed...
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    new fusil

    Does anyone hunt turkey with the .54? How practical is it?
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    Hunting season is now on the radar screen...

    The night before deer season is, no doubt, a sleepless one. I set an alarm, but I beat it every time. I remember the morning of my very first elk hunt. I woke up when I woke up, extra early since I didn't have any bearing on mountain time, walked out and just sat there for three hours before it...
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    Do any of you wear camo?

    I bought some quality camo hunting clothes at spectacular clearance prices early this year. Silent rain jacket and pants for 1/2 price, 10x cold weather pants nearly 1/2 price, and water resistant winter coat 1/2 price. with those I wear a brown sock tobogin(spelling?). My favorite warm weather...
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    where do u hunt/my area

    You've got it all wrong! We don't have any big deer down here! Got that? No big deer! J.R., I need to speak to you in private :nono:
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    Blaze Orange Requirements

    A solid blaze orange cap, and 400 square inches of an outer upper garment is the requirement for hunting deer with any firearm in Illinois. Where the muzzleloading only and archery seasons overlap, bowhunters are required to wear blaze orange also. It's a good law and I'm not going to try to...
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    PRB flight question

    My guess is that, like a flywheel, top, or bicycle wheel, the rotating sphere tends to keep its axis in a constant direction in space. 'Course the next question is "why slow twist and not fast". That's something I'd like to know. Does a fast twist cause the axis to wobble? Also, What about...
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    VELOCITY: Rifled vs. Smoothbore

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    Who's drawing tags for fall seasons?

    Have to wait for July 29 for results on Arizona archery bull elk. If I don't get drawn, I'll at least have some bonus points built up for a practical shot at drawing a ML tag next year. AZFG is sure making things technical this year for nonresidents in light of the lawsuit over the cap on...
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    Post deleted by Claude

    I recall Clark mentioning a Sgt. Piddaso in a couple of his entries. :crackup:
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    Percussion problem

    I have a .54 GPR percussion that I haven't had five months and have only shot a half dozen sessions with. For whatever reason, today it began exploding the caps only on every other cock of the hammer, as if the hammer isn't falling far enough to strike the cap. It does this whether I use the set...
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