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Flat horn with brass spout
Roland said to boil it in lard in a deep fryer. not vegetable oil. or use dry heat like a gas or electric burner, wearing heavy gloves and preventing it from scorching. yt videos show people using propane torches, but their horns all get scorched. according to Roland, scorching eliminates the...- pamtnman
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- Forum: Shooting Accessories
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Hello from West Michigan
welcome, Jim. i hope you like this site.- pamtnman
- Post #14
- Forum: New Member Introductions
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Flat horn with brass spout
hey boom, i just posted the two ways to reach jim spray, on the ALR site and on this one. i agree with you about how clear white this horn is. Roland Cadle always has a huge pile of cored and scraped horns at every black powder event. people root through those piles until they find what they...- pamtnman
- Post #8
- Forum: Shooting Accessories
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Flat horn with brass spout
jim is reachable on the ALR site, and he just opened an account here as james s. he is in his 'second professional phase' of life, and took on the horn spout as a challenge. he has made half a dozen so far, i think, maybe more. they are 2" long and 3/4" diameter at the mouth. might be small for...- pamtnman
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- Forum: Shooting Accessories
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Flat horn with brass spout
if i am successful at flattening it properly and attaching the spout properly, then yes, i will engrave or scrimshaw it. lot of steps for me (for me, not necessarily for anyone else) to go before i reach that point.- pamtnman
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- Forum: Shooting Accessories
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Flat horn with brass spout
Jim Spray’s brass spout arrived today, to be matched to my first flat horn. Got the horn yesterday from Roland Cadle at the 18th Century Artisans Faire in Carlisle. Also picked up a ball bag. All are destined for the planned .62 flintlock British sporting rifle. Ran out of time yesterday to pick...- pamtnman
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- Forum: Shooting Accessories
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PA flintlock late season flintlock hunters
I have spent a lot of time in the Rocky Mountains, from New Mexico to Canada, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, fishing, camping, canoeing, back packing, wildlife watching, never hunting, and it is a totally different environment than the eastern deciduous forest. Beautiful, and...- pamtnman
- Post #41
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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PA flintlock late season flintlock hunters
"YOU"...Sounds kind of accusatory! Here is my experience. Round balls rarely get me the kinds of blood trails I get with black powder conicals or paper patched bullets, and especially compared to modern centerfire. Smaller round balls get less blood than a .54 round ball, which also doesn't...- pamtnman
- Post #39
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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PA flintlock late season flintlock hunters
I saw those same videos. It’s distressing. Many of those deer could have been hit. I learned about round balls the hard way, a long slow learning process.- pamtnman
- Post #34
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Squirrel Season 2022
Even just a few live traps can do wonders for a property. A **** here, possum there, skunk here, another **** there and suddenly whippoorwills are setting up ground nests because they finally have found a safe place to raise a few babies. Same goes for pheasants in Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakotas- pamtnman
- Post #77
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Squirrel Season 2022
I’m about to start putting out steel, if the rain lets up, only because I want to toss some fur in the ditch just to save some ground nesting birds. I agree with you it’s a shame, but the alternative of too many little furry predators is not good. I won’t spend the long time and effort to tan my...- pamtnman
- Post #72
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Squirrel Season 2022
Boy I’ll tell you what, Jim, it’s sure good you broke his shoulder and anchored him. He might have otherwise gotten away 😃- pamtnman
- Post #71
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Help needed: Flintlock English sporting rifle
Question, Mike: On your late half stock, whose "Manton" style lock did you use, and why are there London rifle proofs on the barrel? Thank you- pamtnman
- Post #31
- Forum: Flintlock Rifles
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PA flintlock late season flintlock hunters
OK I also confess to watching the YT and Rumble flintlock hunts. Season is over in 90% of PA, and unless I can get down to SEPA for one last hunt, my guns are getting hung up, sad to say. I had a wonderful season and just have such a difficult time letting it go. Thanks for making it easy for me...- pamtnman
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- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Help needed: Flintlock English sporting rifle
Thank you, Mike. All are interesting. I see the same variations in your lock types as I have seen in the historic guns: ketland, germanic, manton.- pamtnman
- Post #29
- Forum: Flintlock Rifles
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Food for thought on smaller calibers for hunting big game.
Lt James Forsyth addressed this same question in his “Sporting Rifles and Their Projectiles”, a slim book that summed up the challenges of different black powder projectiles. He compared the new Minie slug and other elongated lead bullets to the round ball. Trajectory, range, striking power and...- pamtnman
- Post #45
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Early antler drop/no fat
Significant percentage of bucks here in PA had early antler drop. Might be due to low nutrition, because of no acorns this year. No acorns because of gypsy moth. All four deer i killed this season had no fat. None. Hearing the same from other PA hunters. However I’m hearing in Maryland, it’s...- pamtnman
- Post #9
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Food for thought on smaller calibers for hunting big game.
I have about two decades of mostly failures stories with the 45 patched ball. Most of the failures were due to me leaving the scene after not finding blood, and assuming that where there was no blood there was life. After years of “Guess I didn’t miss that deer after all” I started to piece...- pamtnman
- Post #35
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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Food for thought on smaller calibers for hunting big game.
A 45 could kill a deer, I suppose… if a swallow grasped it by the husk and dropped it from a height. Then again, certain killer rabbits are vicious enough to kill a deer, too. And are immune to all but a Holy Hand Grenade. We will have to interview the next deer poked in the ribs with a 127...- pamtnman
- Post #31
- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting
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4 days, 3 deer, 1 arrow and 1 PRB
Welp, better eight years late than never, so congratulations! Heckuva hunt!- pamtnman
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- Forum: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting