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    Gun used in movie Jerimiah Johnson?

    That was always my impression...as to its origin, that is left up to the viewer to consider. :hmm: :hmm Snow
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    Any insight on a flinter for deer hunting?

    I felt that same tug... :haha: After more than 40 years of hunting with a cap lock of one form or another I made the comitment to go strickly flintlock this year. I learned alot. I spent a week in Colorado chasing elk in what turned out to be a very wet season. I then returned to Illinois and...
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    Double Ball Load .50 T/C Hawken

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    I filled 2 doe tags with my Smoothie!

    question on your load because I use a smooth 20 fowler,, I use 80gr 2F in my fowler (600. 10. ox yoke patch with Mink oil grease) and I was told 80gr of 3F would be too much and I'd have to drop to 60 if I used 3F.. did you find tighter grouping using 80G of 3F. I have stuggled with this...
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    General Altoid's Snuff Boxes

    ...and you don't? :hmm: Snow
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    I filled 2 doe tags with my Smoothie!

    I killed 2 does yesterday with my Jack Garner built 20 gauge smoothbore. 80 Gr FFF with a home cast .600 RB wraped in .010 ticking and deer tallow lube. I've taken a few deer in the last 40+ years but never with a smoothie nor a flintlock so I am very pleased. :) I've a few observatons. Both...
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    Southern Invasion

    Yep that territory looks familiar. I cuurently hunt on the Illinois side of the Wabash but have hunted on both sides of the river from Terre Haute south to where the White and the Wabash merge. You Gents where in some fine deer country! Congrats on what looks like a fine time for you... Snow
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    I did it after 5 years trying!

    Congrats! I knew it would come to you in time... :thumbsup: Snow
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    Deer aren't paper bulls-eyes.

    Well Roy I'm sure you are a "handsome" man, one which all of us could hope to emulate, but I doubt that is what built your client list...
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    Deer aren't paper bulls-eyes.

    Now, I hear these Roy Stroh rifles and fowlers never miss. I just heard a story about someone hitting a deer off-hand at 84 yards with a Stoh smoothie. I'm sure when my Stroh rifle arrives, all my woes will be alleviated. :thumbsup: Yep, and that is what keeps Roy and all his brethren in...
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    Just my luck

    Spot on Paul. I can remember, back in the 1960's, when the measure of a sucessful season was just seeing a single deer. For someone to actually kill a deer with a muzzleloader was a news event for which folks would drive long distances just to see the fallen beast. After all those "old...
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    Pillow ticking

    Seriously Stumpy, I am so glad you posted that. Nice to know I'm not the only anal retentive smoke pole shooter around. Do you weigh each ball before loading too?
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    looking for a barrel

    A,B,C weights refer to the external measurments of swamped barrels. "A" being the lightest. The problem is the demensions of one manufactuer's "A" weight barrel won't always match the demensions of another's. Or at least that is how I understand it... Snow
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    Hammer stalls

    Everyone whom I have taught firearms safety to knows my first rule..."there is no such thing as a gun accident only gun stupidity" Not using a stall is foolish, priming first in crazy. Doing both...? :shocked2: ... it certainly shows an unjustified faith in the mechanical reliability of one's...
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    How much does 90 grains FFF weigh?

    Well it appears "Old Dogs" can indeed learn new tricks. I was taught, as a very young boy, never measure blackpowder by weight but by volume. I made the assumption that grains by weight and grains by volume where diffrent measurments. Nothing mystical about it just different based on an old...
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    How much does 90 grains FFF weigh?

    Incidently this all started because a friend liked one of my measures, this one was 90 grains. When he used it on the range he said his point of impact changed. When he used his brass measure to check the one I made it was 80 grains. That is why I wanted a weigth to volume scale. To produce...
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    How much does 90 grains FFF weigh?

    My head hurts too but this is an interesting discussion. I did a very quick unscientific comparison of weight vs volume using three 90 grain measures and a calibrated digital scale. Using a 90 grain antler measure with FFF the average, three measurements, was 81.88 grains by weight. With an old...
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    How much does 90 grains FFF weigh?

    Don't worry about me being driven out, I shot my first muzzle loader in 1964 and have never hunted with any thing but a muzzle loader or longbow. By chance that is why the confusion. I was taught grain by volume and grain by weight where not the same, just as a bushel of corn does not equal a...
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    How much does 90 grains FFF weigh?

    The 454 comes directly off a can of FFF GOEX "NET WT. 16 OZ. {454 G.}". Perhaps the G. is Grams? I am not certain. As to 7000 grains { by volume } in a 1 pound can would equal 100 shots with a 70 grain charge. That seems about right. Perhaps the 454 G. is weight not volume. This brings up an...
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    How much does 90 grains FFF weigh?

    I like to make my own powder measures from horn, antler etc... Recently I checked the volume of one, using a commercially produced brass measure, at 90 grains volume. With a second brass measure it read 80 grains :confused: . Obviously there is some inconsistancy in measures. If I knew the...
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