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    whiskeys

    Personally, I keep a 1/2 gallon fruit jar of GREAT double-run bust-head "white likker" around for "snakebite medicine". You never know when you might be out & about & see a snake of some sort. - Best to not take a chance on being without a snort or 3. (CHUCKLE) yours, satx
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    You are CORRECT. Furthermore the FIRST THANKSGIVING was celebrated in (what today is) EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, over a century before there were Pilgrims. yours, satx
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    Virtually anything that would fire was generally "snapped-up" by the Unionists or the CSA & mostly used for some purpose in support of the war effort. (Some firearms were determined to be essentially useless & were stored away for future possible use.) yours, satx
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    I truly WISH that I believed you to be correct. - SADLY, I believe that IF we had a large war that couldn't be handled by our current force that we would have a MESS that would make the worst of the ANTI-RVN WAR protests look mild. yours, satx
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    I wonder if we will ever know the full answer to that question but we do know from period documents that the Mexican Army surrendered many "stands" of Brown Bess muskets after the battle of San Antonio to COL Milam's forces. After San Jacinto, the Texas Army also confiscated a great many more...
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    I suspect that you're correct about no "loyalty gene". The Woodland tribe's girls were usually married by contract by the 2 mothers & grandmothers by age 16, with the approval of the Clan Mother. (The Bride Price paid, which was usually paid in horses, depended on the perceived future worth of...
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    Not only do I not know what/when exactly that the Mexican Army bought from the UK but I also don't know where one would start looking for the actual procurement records, even if such records still exist somewhere. Given the poor quality powder that the Mexicans bought, as well as other items of...
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    UNDERSTOOD. Pardon me for believing that even 14YO boys of the 19th Century were MUCH tougher & more dedicated to family, clan & tribe than any of today's teenagers are likely to be. ADDENDA: Our combined family from AL, MS & I.T.(OK) sent off a total of 28 boys/men to follow the Starry Cross...
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    For those who may be wondering, CPL Richard Henry Red Fern, late of Company A, Cherokee Mounted Rifles served from February 1861 until he returned home to Delaware County, I.T., after his unit demobilized in Sebastian County, Arkansas in May 1965. His Confederate States service record indicates...
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    CHUCKLE. yours, satx
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    What you may well be missing is that for Native American families sending a warrior off to war, in defense of family, clan & tribe, absent the best that the family was able to do for him, would mean "a huge loss of face" & the family's HONOR. (After the family's obligation was fulfilled, the...
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    18th century Smoothbore lifespan

    By the time of the TX Revolution & even more during TWBTS era, smoothbore military firearms of the AWI & Napoleonic War, i.e., the Brown Bess (of its various sorts), the Harpers Ferry muskets, the French Charleville muskets & other European arms of that period were "old, used guns" & were...
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    Pedersoli Flintlock SxS review.

    That would be OK, too. (I would bet that Jessie at JES could deal with that problem with alacrity, as he & his lady are very talented.) yours, satx
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    Tastiest game bird?

    I'm not at all sure what the birds were in the nursery rhyme but in south LA they make "rice birds" (which are sooty black) into 2-crust pies & it does take about 2 dozen. yours, satx
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    Pedersoli Flintlock SxS review.

    I just went back again, looked carefully at the stock & agree that there simply isn't enough wood to pare that horrid checkering off & still have a stock. I'm also wondering of the tubes are thick enough to rifle one of them to say 1 turn in 60"?? (I've neve owned a flint combination gun of any...
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    Pedersoli Flintlock SxS review.

    GOOD. - I might well buy one of the "Plain Jane" versions. (To me, NO decoration is always better than too much.) yours, satx
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    Pedersoli Flintlock SxS review.

    TOO BAD that Pedersoli insisted on doing ANY checkering. = Plain would look as well, imo. yours, satx
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    Tastiest game bird?

    To have a good meal, possum needs to be kept for a while & fed table scraps. (I like **** better, though). - Then put the dressed possum (or ****) up on a rack, so the rendered grease will drain away & ENJOY with sweet taters & good cornbread. yours, satx
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    Pedersoli Flintlock SxS review.

    I suspect that the SxS double-flinter was NEVER intended to be HC, but rather that it was intentionally designed to bypass the anti-"modern gun laws" that numerous countries have. = Flinters are NOT even considered to be WEAPONS in several nations. yours, satx
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    Tastiest game bird?

    I'm glad that somebody actually thinks it so. yours, satx
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