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    Want to hear about .40 cal for deer.

    Shot a buck at 18 yards with a bow from my ground blind he went 20 yards and dropped. From the same blind I shot a doe at 26 yards with .395 ball, 50 grains Goex fff, .015 patch. She went 45 yards and dropped. All my hunting buddies use those huge scoped unmentionable black powder rifles and my...
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    Was this a good deal "CABELAS"

    I picked up a brand new Cabelas Hawken, the guy was askin 50 bucks for it, needless to say we were in a bar. He went home and got it, after one look I almost broke my arm getting my wallet out :rotf: It wound up being the grandsons Christmas present :thumbsup:
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    Tulle progress pics

    Mike Hope ya dont mind, I made coppies of your pics to use as references. Thanks Gary
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    Another one too

    Found a new Cabelas hawken for 50 bucks right before Christmas. Needless to say the 13 year old grandson was really suprised on Christmas day. Finally managed to get him out today and he had a blast :) , went through the loading procedure once then let him do it all by himself. After 30 shots it...
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    Tulle progress pics

    Finally got the work bench cleared off enough to get a few pics of the Track Tulle kit im building. Have the barrel and tang inletted and the trigger assembled and inlet. Lock is inletted and reworked to resemble the photos in the Tulle book. Any suggestions would be apprecieated. Now working on...
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    Removing deep sanding scratches on barrel.

    Guncobbler, In my limited experience browning with LMF I found that if I stop at 220 grit when sanding, the browning comes out real nice, all the small sanding marks will disappear once you start the browning process. Gary
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    Lead vs Leather Experiment

    Pletch, Thanks for the interesting photos, they are really interesting and educational. As they say a picture is worth a gazillion words. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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    OT: Why we call 'em FLINCH-Locks!

    After looking at all these really good pictures my next endeavor at the range will be to see how little of an amount of powder will make the ole flintlock function properly . :thumbsup:
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    Staining maple reveals major flaw

    Looks mighty fine, personally I like a few flaws, it gives the gun character so it dosent have that assembly line look.. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: by the way how can one work on a bench that doesnt have any clutter :rotf:
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    Iffen Ye Goes ta Texas

    Just imagine how many inlays you can put on that baby.. :rotf: :rotf:
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    Track kit

    Mike. Im figuring a couple months your going to do it in a week???? Must be the difference between a rank amateur and a pro. Are you using 2 or 3 rod pipes, kit came with 2 all the pictures in my book show 3. The book also show 4 barrel pins and the kit came with 3. Trying to make this one as...
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    Track kit

    Got the 44 inch barrel it comes with a Davis lock. The lock needs a few cosmetic changes a little grinding on the back of the frizzen, a little grinding on the top jaw screw and the fancy final on the frizzen spring needs to be taken off. According to the pics in "The fusil de Tulle" she also...
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    Duckhead war club

    I do believe if any duck in the world seen you comming at him with that he would throw up his feet and surrender peacefully :rotf: :rotf: Really very interesting piece, just coudnt resist..
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    Track kit

    Ordered a Tulle kit from TOTW on monday,the order was shipped on tuesday and it all arrived today. Packaging was super and all parts look to be in good shape. After reading about the negative comments on some suppliers I just had to give TRACK a big :thumbsup: I will definatly order from them...
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    Which lock for early 1770's Virginia rifle

    My last build was with a swamped barrel, real good balance and easy to shoot. Any more rifles will definatly have swamped barrels.
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    new convert to BP

    Berebackjack I find when you get all them people watchin, you really gotta act like you know what you are doing...... :rotf:
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    Who has NEVER had a misfire?

    One mis fire with the GPR, a bad cap. What a scarey feeling when it did not go boom, an even scareyer feeling takeing that cap off and pitching it.......
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    Forty cal barrel twist

    Have a GM 40 cal swamped barrel with a 1 in 56 twist, it shoots nice and flat out to 50 yds. Goex fffG 40 grains, .395 ball and .018 Wal Mart pillow ticking. Its my favorite target plinker...
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    powder for GPR

    Been using Goex fffG in my 54 GPR. Have put approx 450 shots through her and the one and only miss fire was a bad cap. :)
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    Circa 1730 French hunting gun

    TG Thanks, been contemplating one of these as my next project and nothing is better than pictures :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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