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  1. tenngun

    What is this musketty thing?

    Isn’t that Swedish? I was thinking they looked like the child of a bess and Charlie and had the half octagon barrel
  2. tenngun

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    You say you didn’t have time to range find him, and that begs the question of time on target. Was this a snap shot? I can miss at twenty five yards if I move too quick Every deer I’ve taken has been a calm resting shot, your miss might not have been the load or the wind or any other of the...
  3. tenngun

    Lifespan of a Rifle?

    That’s why he was a plains hunter, on the run from civilization
  4. tenngun

    Virginia smooth rifle

    Look for rifle mounted fusil Derringer would supply a hundred ‘rifle mounted fusils’ to the US government. Ned Roberts talks about a hunter in New Hampshire who had a “Kentucky fowler’ a ‘Kentucky rifle with smooth bore of .65 caliber
  5. tenngun

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Round ball is a poor projectile It sheds velocity rapidly. The faster you drive it the faster it loses velocity. A ball at 2200 fps will lose down to 1100 at a hundred yards. At 1100 fps it slows to 800 at that same range, and your not going to get that fast in a .58 Depending on your barrel...
  6. tenngun

    Strap bag vs belt bag?

    We see lots of belt bags in the old days. And lots of strapped I find belt bags heavy on the belt, and at times if one is loading from the bag one might want it in a different place when walking or sitting. I find strapped just more convenient However, bodies being bodies, eighteenth century...
  7. tenngun

    How Powerful are Black Powder Guns?? - Ballistic High-Speed

    Well I’m glad I see it can make killing wounds, been hunting with them for fifty years and I always thought they died of old age while I loaded
  8. tenngun

    Virginia smooth rifle

    I don’t recall a time when he went very far alone or in company of two. But not to argue that how much space does even two yards take up on a pack horse?
  9. tenngun

    Loading block question

    I don’t use a block anymore. It may be ahistorical, or not. Mostly shoot smoothies and just not needed. When I did use a block I lubed the patch before putting it in the block. I always use a grease instead of an oil as a lube
  10. tenngun

    Virginia smooth rifle

    From as far as our knowledge of his adventures when ever he went beyond the pale he was in a prepared group A square yard has 1200 square inches. I doubt Boone went through that much at 2x2 that’s a shot a day for a year
  11. tenngun

    Impressions after shooting the brown bess carbne.

    Nothing wrong with Swiss, except it’s expensive, about a third more then Schutzen I THINK that Swiss would be wasted in a musket Try wads and whatever, but a bess was made for paper, and it shoots pretty well. Try also just paper on top, a wad on top works great for me when shooting bare ball
  12. tenngun

    Impressions after shooting the brown bess carbne.

    Try a little bigger charge, it might tighten your group a bit. Service charge was a little higher it seems and elephant is a lower energy powder But…. That’s great for deer and plinking and first shots even better That’s a super good looking gun
  13. tenngun

    Flintlock Gunsmithing

    I would suggest going on Rumble and looking up Bill Rabe he does like four hundred vids on custom builds
  14. tenngun

    Show N Tell your first MLer rifle

    I had one of those as my third gun, and first flinter. My first was a Mowrey.50 with wood for stock. And second was a Zouave from navy arms
  15. tenngun

    Fire starting

    Hemp string picked in to fibers is good tinder. It’s been over a month with no rain here so grass flashes like it was soaked in gasoline I’ve tried punk and holds a spark well, but we know ‘tinder’ was defined as chard rag used to catch a spark back in the day.
  16. tenngun

    Virginia smooth rifle

    They seem to have been picky about patching. Audobon records Boone as buying the best Irish 200 thread count Irish linen
  17. tenngun

    About your hunting rifles

    I too don’t have a ‘beater’ none of my guns are fancy though two have highly figured wood. I’m careful with my girls in field or in a camp. This century all my deer save one has been shot with a smooth bore. Two with my 28 bore, 54 cal, and rest with my fusil de chase. All shots pretty close...
  18. tenngun

    Virginia smooth rifle

    Remember they didn’t have corrected vision then in general use. If one lived in an area where rifles were common you wanted a gun like everyone else had. But the percision that comes with a rifle was lost on a near sighted man. He could still take a deer at fifty or sixty yards with a smooth...
  19. tenngun

    Virginia smooth rifle

    Mine
  20. tenngun

    Virginia smooth rifle

    By the 1770s they were saying both smooth rifles and rifle mounted fusils. Examinations seems to suggest about 10% were made smooth. Every ‘Virgina style I’ve seen was an iron mounted Lancaster. But as far as I know there were no iron mounted rifles north of the Carolinas until the ‘Virgina’...
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