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    Effects of Lee R.E.A.L. bullets on game?

    We do?! :shocked2:
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    Double Rifles, who's using them?

    I grew up reading Capstick, Ruark, O'Conner and Elmer Keith. I told everyone Ernest Hemingway was my Uncle. Spent most of my youth dreaming of muzzle to nose shots on lion and cape buffalo in darkest Africa. The only thing between me and "black death" was a big english double!! Ahh youth! :wink...
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    Fouling shot

    Now don't go telling Paul a thing like that...he'll start believing he's smart and the next thing you know he'll become a lawyer 'er somethin'... :rotf: Snow
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    Purpose of buckhorn sight

    If you notice they are historiclly on plains rifles. Full buck horns where used for long range shooting, pretty simple. The low notch is cut for short range ie: 50 yards, a midline point is for mid-range shooting say 100 yards and the horn tips for longer ranges, 150-200 yards. If you check...
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    7 months wait worth every second....TVM Lancaster

    This may well be the best example of Matt's skill I have seen to date!! Obviously much thought on your part went into the planning of this rifle. You should be very proud of your new arm. I even like the color of the wood. Often Matt's guns have too red of a tone in the maple for my taste but...
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    .62 Tennessee Rifle

    I AM left handed. Looks like a Silar lock {?}do you know who made the barrel? What is the length of pull? Snow
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    Canoe gun results

    That's a fine little arm GB, you even have the lock on the proper side :haha: . For the life of me I don't understand how you shoot so well...maybe that thin mountain air? I might be able to acheive that group at 25 but not 50 yards. It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that I am perhaps...
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    Guns of Lonesome Dove?

    Lonesome Dove is on my all time favorites list, recommend reading McMurty's original text as well. A couple of things which have always bugged me: ever wonder the reality of a 300 yard ramp sight on a rifle, which in its original chambering, fired the very ineffective .44 rimfire? Not a long...
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    flintlock is it real

    Some people have no appreciation for their family heritage, just interested in the cash they feel is owed to them :shake:. Something I'll never understand. Even if House didn't build this rifle of obvious quaility you got the bargin of a lifetime. Get those pics in the mail, even plan a road...
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    Shot selection

    Perhaps its all those years bowhunting that influences me but a lung shot will almost always be my first choice. Back in the 1980's I shot a medium size 6 pt at 25 yards broadside. Using a .530 roundball pushed by 110 grains of FF that big ball hit the buck in the right shoulder breaking the...
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    60 grs FFFg for Deer

    Dan, your pics make long for the Mountains. I didn't make it this year due to family commitments but I'll be back next fall wondering the plains and hills of Wyoming or Colorado flintlock in hand...always enjoy your posts, keep them coming. Snow
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    Traditional PRB Hunters: What caliber will you use opening day?

    RB, I wonder if the reason .50 and .54 are #'s 1&2 has anything to do with the fact those two calibers are what the majority of production guns are made in? I would imagine the majority {but certainly not all} of .58 and .62 shooters represent the smoothbore fans? Snow
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    60 grs FFFg for Deer

    I respect Dan's opinion a lot. For those "Uber" deer they have in Wyoming and Montana coupled with the ranges one typically finds out west I would heed Mr Phariss'advice, 90 grains +. Here in the midwest of the 40 or so deer I've killed in the last 30 years only four where taken past 50 yards...
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    Finished my first shooting pouch.

    I'm impressed, then again I married two ugly girls so I'm easily impressed :rotf: ! On your blog you mention a problem with the dye, what did you use? What leather did you use? Snow
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    mocs

    Wick, when its cold outside try a couple of those chemical "Hot Hands" bags, one in the toes of each moc. The small size works best. They will keep the toes warm 3-4 hours easy. When sitting on stand in 20 degree and below weather they will save the day and let you stay on stand longer. I know...
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    Buck n' Ball Loads in a Trade Gun

    A better question would be, why not? Sometome you gotta do things just for "poops and giggles"... Snow
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    NSW Early English = Love

    Ash certainly makes a very unique stock. I'll bet it is VERY durable. Those straight, square butt stocks, are they hard on the cheek or do you shoot them in the English style? Head held high with a straight neck? Snow
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    Homemade Patch Lube?

    Of late I've found a mix of 4 parts olive oil to 1 part bee's wax with a "bit" of Murphy's Oil Soap works very well for hunting even in colder weather. For early season and summer shooting I use closer to 50-50 mix. Except when hunting I cut patches at the muzzle and use the summer lube. Hunting...
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    I've a Russ Hamm Maslin Flintlock...where do I take it?

    I inherited this lock, seems very well made though the fisson may need to be hardened. What style rifle would you use this lock on? I'm thinking a small framed late Lancaster for my wife. Suggestions? Snow
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    underhammer spring question

    If you are using Deer creek parts that little spring is essential, without it the trigger sear will not re-engage with the sear of the hammer. The cross bolt, which attaches the trigger to the reciever frame, goes through the loop of the spring. Look at your trigger, it will have a slot in the...
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