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    Backpack hunts

    Teeth?! Ya mean bran new Store Bought Teeth?
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    Hoosier hello

    ISU grad here, looong before you where born, Welcome from the western side of the Wabash! Snow
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    English Sporting Rifle

    Roby, That is drop dead gorgeous! Personally I like the English style. The English smiths understood stock design in relation to large bores and controling recoil. Yours, dispite the majority decention, has the lock on the correct side. Now if you would like to see this beauty draw blood I...
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    Peep sights

    Include me in the Interested column! Snow
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    TC .58 Hawken

    How would one contact Mr Hoyt? I've a .54 Renegade with a very poor bore Id like to make into .58. Snow
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    Really got to shoot the poor boy today and I need your help

    Cimarron, Thank you for the link. I stand corrected, at least based on this evidence. To satisfy my own stubborn curiosity I'm going to have to exsperiment some but it certainly forces one to re-evaluate previously held ideas. But then any excuse to shoot a flinter more ain't a bad thing now is...
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    Snapsack

    :hmm: kinda looks like an inverted back quiver. I can see some potential in one. Do you have a pattern or perhaps share the dimentions? Snow
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    Really got to shoot the poor boy today and I need your help

    Is there a link for Pletcher's research? I speak only from Personal experiece and would be VERY interested in serious study to the contrary. Snow
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    Really got to shoot the poor boy today and I need your help

    A couple of things here. First try shooting offhand. Often times people will shoot off from the bench because of your body position. Otherwise it's time to get the file out and slowly take down the FRONT sight. As to the "woosh boom" ,do not pile the powder towards the touch hole this creates a...
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    Ordering my Fowler.. need your help

    As swampy said, I chose a 36" barrel and now wish I'd gone longer. With round balls I prefer a longer sight radius and the 44" works well. Mine is a TVM built by Jack Garner and has a strong English influence. The more schooled in the various styles could chime in here :hatsoff: but I believe a...
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    "coned" muzzle for quick loading

    Many Klatch, are you using pre-cut patches or cutting at the muzzle? Snow
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    Does a long L.O.P. cause shooting to the side?

    I think Brown Bear and I where separated at birth as I am 6'5" and a founding member of the Grass Stained Knuckle Society. When a shooting a smooth bore with too short of LOP I will hit high as well. Most "muskets" are way to short for me usually giving me a sight picture with the front sight...
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    Why do you shoot a muzzle loader?

    Its because of gentleman named Max Vickery, Nelson Hera, Doyal Wascom, Bill Shelly, Harry O. Smith and Dad...all where among the early foundation of the "modern" black powder movement in Indiana during the 1960's and all where mentors to a skinny tow headed kid who absorbed their every word. I...
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    Africa calling

    Luie may be referring to Val Foggett, the founder of Navy Arms. Try a google search on him as he hunted Africa with muzzle loaders produced by Navy Arms. Snow
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    1:48 twist and round ball?

    60 yards is the longest my home range can accomodate. The plan is to work up to 100 yards with 75 as a realistic max for hunting. I tried up to 100 gr FFF but the group size dramaticly opened up so I back down to 90 and got the best accuracy. With 90 grains the patches are clean and perfect...
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    1:48 twist and round ball?

    Capper, I'm working up loads for the up coming elk season. Current best in a .54 Renegade is 95 grains FFF Goex under a .530 RB wrapped in .015 pillow ticking. Getting 1.5" to 2" groups out to 60 yards. Hav'nt tried past that range yet. Am I on the right track? Particularly considering I have...
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    1:48 twist and round ball?

    Can I get an AMEN on that!! :) :) Snow
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    Colorado Tags

    You can go through the "back door" on the Colorado DOW hunting web site and find out too. I was drawn for a non-resident cow tag, woohoo!! :) Snow
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    I caught MOUNTAIN MEN

    Boy did I butcher that spelling... :surrender: Now you know why it took me 8 years to get a 4 year BA degree....not the sharpest knife. Snow
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    I caught MOUNTAIN MEN

    That "Indian" who took the ramrod into the chest was Recardo Maltoban {sp?} as in "...de plane Boss, de plane!? It is fun picking apart period films pointing out their histoical faults. The classic Custer, Little Big Horn flick with the native americans using 1894 Winchesters :rotf: for...
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