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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    This morning I dug out Ruger Old army,charged her with 35 grains of 777 ,3f and lee Real 200 grain bullet,shooting a honest 25 yards according to range finder,I was pretty happy with group I had one I dropped about 4" but I knew it was bad as soon as trigger broke. Ignore the 3 itty bitty...
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    Loading a 1858 with 1-2F powder?

    3 or 4 years ago I spent couple days playing with different brands of powders,I had just a little swiss 3 f,geox,shutzen, Graf's,and old ensford, pyrodex p,pyrodex rs,tripple 7 2f,and 3f, I was shooting a ruger old army,a Remington navy, a colt 61 navy, a colt 62 police with 5.5" barrel a colt...
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Fired up the lead pot and cast roughly 75 .45 and 75 .50 LEE REAL bullets to try out tomorrow,then to empty lead pot I cast about 25 .69 balls for my little cannon. Muzzle loader deer season starts this saturday so Wife and I are on a time crunch to get decent loads zeroed,been few years...
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    Took the wife out today

    My wife has took to shooting the muzzle loaders like a duck takes to water, she'd shot my cap and ball revolvers several times through the last 8 years or so,I'd usually carry one when we was fishing,mushroom hunting , ect. but she'd never shot a flintlock or longrifle,till last year or so after...
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    SOLD Dark Brown Shooting Bag (Reduced Again)

    Just wanted to post for folks that boomstick is a awsome guy to buy from. The bag is way nice for twice the price. I bought bag for my wife ( we both had been married for over 30 years previously, and our still newly weds now lol we been married about 18 months) anyway I just put...
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    SOLD SOLD PENDING FUNDS. Thompson Center New Englander 12 Gauge Shotgun "Like New"

    I'll take it,PM sent
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    Hickory dowels

    I've made several ball starters and never put a brass tip on any of them.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I took wife out behind the house with her new Pedersoli Kentucky to shoot and get familiar loading,shooting, and how and when to wipe the bore. I showed her 1 time how to load after 3 shots, I showed her how to run a wet patch then a couple dry patches to get most of the crud out so ball...
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    Old Knife Opinions

    I thought I had pic showing couple nicks on blade that had been mostly sharpened out,only nick on blade I see is right in front of handle,others are on spine and they show up good on pic.
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    Old Knife Opinions

    I'd guess barn was probably built late 19th century,our other barn would of been for livestock and hay it has few rough hand hewn timbers approximately 6"x6". I'm going to try to find better pic of blade,it has few chips in blade that look like made from another knife blade,that's why it...
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    Old Knife Opinions

    My wife found this under our old Corn crib barn few months ago,any ideas on age ?
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I got most of excess wood removed,tried to flatten out that Roman nose buttstock,I think it looks much better now,I can't go any farther because there's a knot in buttstock,here's a pic of buttstock beside cub that has same stock that I didn't change shape.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I finally got started on wife's rifle,I got her for our 1st wedding anniversary,I bought it in May figured I'd have it going by mid July for anniversary present,that didn't happen lol,but muzzle loader deer season starts 9 Sept so I gotta get busy 😳.I also didn't realize my shoulder been...
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    August Postal Match

    Boy howdy,I really wanted to shoot this one,but my dang shoulder just giving me fits,hopefully I can try Sept Target,been fighting this shoulder for 20 years or so,think it might be time to overhaul left shoulder.Right one got overhauled 13 years ago and I was layed up for 6 months don't want...
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    SOLD Dark Brown Shooting Bag (Reduced Again)

    I'll take it sir,sending you PM asap 👍
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    Dixi Gun Works Disappoints.

    I have no complaints with Dixie ,I've never had any problems with them but I never have ordered anything but basic shooting supplies or basic gun kits.
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    No Fall Turkey season in Kansas

    If I was going to guess,they probably got to stinking thick and spread some disease to themselves,I haven't seen any more coyotes then normal so don't think that's it. Most years I run across 2 or 3 nests when I'm haying,I just seen one this year and it looked destroyed not hatched out.
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    No Fall Turkey season in Kansas

    It was last half of 80's when I first started seeing Turkeys around here in north east KS,by mid 90's wasn't unusual to see 40-50 in a flock in places and quail and pheasant have pretty much disappeared, I have noticed a few less Turkeys this summer,and I have seen a few more quail and pheasant...
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    Firing blanks from a flintlock rifle

    I use bread in my .69 bore cannon,no paper to make a mess.Ive never tried to shoot blanks in rifle or handgun,but don't see why it wouldn't work just use a smaller glob of mashed bread.
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    My sons new camera

    Several years ago when I had those awesome 20 something eyes,my EX and I was shooting my 50 cal TC Hawkins over a frozen pond the ice was real dark and the ground was covered with snow and sun was real bright,when one of us was shooting the other could see the .490 ball in flight by standing...
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