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  1. 4575wcf

    Idaho

    Well I gotta report the good with the bad. The Succor Creek Reservoir Trip was a DISASTER. We took the Google Maps recommended road off US 95, a few miles from the reservoir some landowner had conveniently gated and padlocked the gate on what I am pretty sure is a county road. I was not sure...
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    Idaho

    Amazing. All that cumulative ivy league higher education and what 28 trillion in debt? A man with some common sense and an 8th grade education knows better than that. What exactly again is it these people do for me?
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    Idaho

    Whoa. Didn't mean to cause an uproar. I am pretty sure I didn't have COVID because my smell and taste was not effected. All the members of my family and extended family who are employed or retired from the medical field are telling me to get vaccinated, all the rednecks at work that get their...
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    Squirrels.

    My instructor in Machine Tech classes back in my 20's was a Scotsman who held dual citizenship. Of course he picked up on my surname the first day of classes, caught me before I left the room, and asked about my heritage. I told him what I knew then, that I was a combination of Scot, Irish...
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    Squirrels.

    Our "turtle" mourning dove populations are quite good. They are a migratory bird though and the first chill of autumn they are packing up and taking it south to AZ, NM, and further. I understand they take a frightful drubbing in South America on their winter ranges by paying customers, but up...
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    Squirrels.

    My clan immigrated from UK so long ago, we cannot establish a link. Both maternal and paternal lines originated from Ulster, and most likely lowland Scotland before that. There was no one aboard the Mayflower with my surname, but the first relief ship carried one. He stayed in America and had...
  7. 4575wcf

    Idaho

    Okay, after hay and firewood duty, and a five day bout with some unknown intestinal virus, and the Succor Creek Reservoir canoe event is finally coming off tomorrow. They say the way to differentiate between normal flu and the COVID is loss of smell and taste. I've already been double...
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    Squirrels.

    Boy isn't that the way of introduced species! Just twenty years or so ago we began noticing the Eurasian collared doves hanging around the trees and parks in town. Now they are competing head to head with the mourning dove, the only difference being the mourning dove is still found in his...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    Well I do not have a background in primer and percussion cap manufacturing, nor do I have millions in start up money. But it would certainly be fun to ask Nancy Pelosi to come down and kick off the groundbreaking ceremonies, now wouldn't it
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    I do not have the background for percussion caps or primer manufacture, but if I did I live in probably the least regulated of the states to start up. I would think a business where your product literally flies off the shelves, and you cannot keep up with orders at a fair price would be hard to...
  11. 4575wcf

    Squirrels.

    Forest Grouse are kind of a cool bird. The ruffed are the most interesting. Typically you hunt them on old logging or skid roads and they just explode out of heavy cover, usually pretty close. The bigger blues you sometimes will spot roosting in a tree, and you can stalk them. By far the...
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    Precusion Caps Making A Comeback.

    Hopefully once the primer shortage is addressed--again--the Win, CCI, and Rem folks can get the percussion cap production online. I find it curious that there are no new players in the game. If you shrug your shoulders and give your clientele excuses and dumb looks instead of caps for most of...
  13. 4575wcf

    1792 Contract Rifle in Original Flintlock

    My local library came through with the first of published books on Lancaster and York County Gunsmiths "Gunsmiths of Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania" by James B. Whisker and Stacy B. C. Wood Jr. Hardcover, 225 pages the book was easy to get through in an evening. Not much new...
  14. 4575wcf

    I've never been happy with this gun...

    I have always used 3f in my .54 Mountain rifle, simply because I use it to hunt big game and is shoots so much harder. 120 grains is my normal, I have gone up to 150, but it begins to hit pretty hard on both ends. The reduced ball size and the thicker patch became necessary, anything short of...
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    Dove Season is Upon Us

    Thanks for the advise. I think you are probably right. Trying to cold bend the hammer, even a little is probably a recipe for disaster. The more I look at the offending hammer the more it occurs to me that opening up the radius between the neck and the hammer tip is probably the best...
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    Dove Season is Upon Us

    This evening I soldered the ramrod stop on. I wrapped the muzzle with wire and drove finish nails in under the wire to hold the ribs in place just the way Mr. Brockway says to do it. I introduced the heat via propane torch, and used an acid core solder to cut some of the crud I could not get...
  17. 4575wcf

    Squirrels.

    I was pretty excited about the move to Western Oregon in my late '20's because Oregon has a Silver-Gray Squirrel season. I went after them in various places with BP, usually in the oak/douglas fir areas in the Columbia Gorge and in the lands around the apple orchards in Hood River, but I never...
  18. 4575wcf

    EBAY Muzzleloading Overloaded With Junk

    Well the old closed container instruction that I had in a welding course kept coming back to me. My soldering usually works out, but it is very much experimental thing til it does. That old flask has been full of 2fg for 30+ years, and since there is no such thing as quick in and out with my...
  19. 4575wcf

    Squirrels.

    For any except longer range small game hunting you aren't giving up much. Too bad Parliament cannot find something better to do with their time than legislate that which does not need legislated. Have you told them that?
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    EBAY Muzzleloading Overloaded With Junk

    My latest recent foray into the internet bidding world was to replace my Italian Zouave flask for the bird season. My old one served me well, but the sides were gradually coming unsoldered. The idea of 1/3 lb of 2f getting flashed and going off at my side, while unlikely, did not exactly...
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