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    Inexpensive flintlocks...

    lol!! Now hold on... with so many of the words in our language coming from OTHER languages, what's wrong with using regional "words" from within our own language??? :haha: OK (
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    Inexpensive flintlocks...

    lol!!! WOW! First time on here in longer than I care to remember and this is the thread I pick to read to learn more about the ---- nevermind, I will NEVER mention the make/model of the flinter I just inherited yesterday. Well, learn I did, but nothing that I wanted to. Or expected to. I think...
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    Smoked a roedoe today!

    Waidmanns Heil, Dirk! Hunters greeting, indeed... Please add this congratulations to the list; perhaps someday you'll be hunting the Adirondacks and I'll be hunting in Germany. I've read that roe deer are even more secretive than whitetails. Well done!
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    Made Meat - 2008

    Well, I don't get on here much anymore and even when I do it's mostly lurking. Anyways, last Saturday was the muzzleloader opener for NY's "Northern Zone," and I got a pretty late start. Our camp/land is only about 25 minutes or so north of my home. Even so, I never got up there until 11:00...
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    Tick Repellent

    John, I mean you absolutely no disrespect when I ask you this, and I'm not calling your woodskills into question. That said, I have to ask if you're CERTAIN that what your finding are indeed ticks? I've run into this sort of discussion about ticks in NY when there didn't used to be any etc. from...
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    Adirondack deer/bear

    I've held off replying to this thread for awhile now, because every time Tug Hill or the Adirondacks are mentioned, I just about turn inside-out with enthusiasm and just spew everything and nothing all at once. Can't help it. Those are two places that have kept me from leaving NY for decades...
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    Trespass!!!!!??????

    haha! yeah, I love it when THEY threaten to call the cops. My now-usual response is, "Oh, please do, and thank you - it'll save on my minutes." That usually does the trick; they can't speak very well with their jaws hanging open like that.
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    Trespass!!!!!??????

    I've been land surveying since 1984 and I can honestly say that no other part of the human experience can become as instantly emotionally explosive as the issue of property disputes, and that I've seen more in just the past 5 months than I have in all these years put together. Even when...
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    Speaking of Cherry....

    Truth? Who knows, probably, as stated someone somewhere has an allergy. Careful, though, because with so many woods (exotic) coming in from the Amazon region, etc., they're getting called all sorts of things they probably shouldn't be called. "Brazilian Walnut," for instance, is the name...
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    lapping compounds

    I don't know if this is anything that you'd find useful, but I surely have. Here's a link for firelapping muzzleloaders, I apologize if you've already been there, I know I post this link every time I see someone ask about lapping and someone's sure to omplain about me doing it sooner or later...
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    Furbearer/varmint hunting?

    Yup, the legendary "Jackalope." Just the biggest one those coyotes ever saw. Didn't matter though, it tasted like chicken! Lots and lots of myth and fiction surrounding these creatures today and through a heavy fog of "history." Ironically, the myths are propogated as truth by those that have...
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    Blueing VS. Browning

    I've had both, and I like both. each has it's own plusses and minuses. But what I really, really like? Leave it in-the-white. Keep it clean and oiled, and over time (too much time for many) it takes on a great looking antique grey color. There are threads on this and other forums dealing with...
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    Brown stuff after cleaning

    My two cents: The reason for using Ballistol with water is because it is NOT a petroleum product (I am NOT against petrol products, just pointing out that it mixes with water whilst petrol will not), and readily mixes with water, getting in wherever water will go... Then, the residual water that...
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    roundballs without patch

    Necessity may well be the mother of Invention, but let us not forget that Invention has a nanny that goes by the name of Curiousity. And she's not always the best suited for the charge. I am reasonably sure that this very thought of yours was behind the development of the Minie ball, etc. In...
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    Furbearer/varmint hunting?

    Jethro, you'll get no scorn from me for saying that about the cats. But I've learned that I either keep my peace or the barbs will come from more places than I knew existed. Like I've always said... The man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with a theory. You know, and I know...
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    Furbearer/varmint hunting?

    P.S. - We have no cottontail rabbits left around here. In decades past, it was understood that there was a rhythm to the ebb and flow regarding the population cycle of the rabbits, but this is altogether different. For the past three years, there has been virtually NO cottontail sign of any...
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    Furbearer/varmint hunting?

    First let me say that I am not in any way implying that I believe anyone on this forum is of the type person that I previously addressed, particularly Paul (before) and Dave (now); it's just that we have to click on SOMEONE'S post in order to post a reply of our own. Again, I am not taking issue...
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    Furbearer/varmint hunting?

    The offspring of a coyote and a dog will be sterile, incapable of reproduction. Check with any (reputable) biologist on that. As for the "eastern coyote," unfortunately it's a misnomer that has stuck since we first started seeing them in the late 1960's. I was only 11 years old the first time I...
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    Antother source for blackpowder gone.

    RC, about the only place that I know of "locally" is Frank's Guns over in Canastota. That might be more than an hour's drive each way for you, though. I know it's better than 40 minutes for me. I have a few pounds of Goex fffg leftover, but perhaps in the future, if there's enough of us local...
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    Anvils and forges

    I have a portable "anvil" that was given to me a long time ago. It was old back then. In essence, it is a length of 6" well casing welded to a cast iron flanged base, and the top is a thick cast steel head that fits over the casing. The head is removable so that you can fill it with sand or...
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