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    Tastiest game bird?

    Better EITHER than my Scottish Lowlander's National Dish: haggis. = That stuff makes me GAG. yours, satx
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    Tastiest game bird?

    I feel the same about Wood Ducks. = They're just TOO PRETTY to shoot, imo. yours, satx
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    Tastiest game bird?

    THANKS, tex
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    Tastiest game bird?

    I have to ask: What was SWAN like as a meal & how did you prepare it for the table?? (I've been offered "invasive swans" that have been "culled" from private property, from time to time.) yours, satx
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    Tastiest game bird?

    Make mine young SNOW GEESE baked Cajun style, with rice/mushroom dressing. yours, satx
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    Alamo guns?

    In another case, a Texas "regular" arrived in GEN Houston's camp, riding a Mexican cavalry horse with saddle & tack, carrying a musket/bayonet & other items of Mexican Army issue. Titus Walken reported that he was an escapee from La Bahia (Goliad), had come upon a resting soldier, killed the...
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    Alamo guns?

    To All, To tell you how poor/ill-clothed that some Texican volunteers for GEN Houston's Provisional Army, one East Texas (from a small farm near today's town of Athens) man named Jacob Simms arrived in the camp exhausted, hungry, barefooted & wearing what a private letter "home" (the letter...
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    Alamo guns?

    Frankly, I don't know that answer, as most period TX accounts simply mention "Brown Bess", "English musket", "Mexican Escopeta" or even "Good ole Bess". The records of one of the several musket repair shops (These shops repaired, recycled & converted flintlocks to percussion as well as...
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    Alamo guns?

    It is well known that COL Crockett traded off his caplock rifle in Arkansas, on the way to Texas for a good-quality flintlock rifle, according to the curator of The Alamo Shrine. Further, it is believed by most historians of The TX Revolution that at least HALF of long-arms in Texas were...
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    Food-Grade Horns?

    Back in the day, stoneware jugs came in sizes up to 3-4 gallons. - Anything much larger than that were too heavy to carry easily or handily pack on a mule/horse. (For example, the old circa 1830 Clarke pottery near what is now Wascom, TX on the banks of the Sabine River evidently made jugs up to...
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    Food-Grade Horns?

    Understood. - Given the choice of BAD TASTE, possible leaching of substances and/or BURNING my mouth, I'll take my chances with breaking a mug. (A spare mug doesn't take up a lot of extra space among what Julius Caesar called "the impedimentia of warriors".) yours, satx
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    Dutch Oven tamales

    Sounds interesting, though I always just steam or re-steam my tamales in the husk. (Tamales of every sort are one of my favorites.) yours, satx
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    Dutch Oven tamales

    I'll NOT use jerky for anything but trail snacks, as squirrels/rabbits/hares are too common & easy to take in TX for me to NOT eat fresh meat in camp, presuming that NO fresh beef/pork/goat/lamb is available. Even TX jackrabbit is FINE if cooked until tender & then shredded for all sorts of...
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    Food-Grade Horns?

    The BEST material for hot coffee that I've yet tried is a heavy porcelain mug. = I've "bounced teacups off the floor" numerous times W/O breaking or chipping the heavy/thick mugs. NO horn, glass, tin, pewter or copper drinking vessels, for hot coffee, for me yours, tex
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    My little tip of the hat to "The Revenant"

    Fyi, when I was stationed at Ft. McCoy, a retiring CSM said, "The day that I retire I'm headed to Home Depot to buy myself a new bright orange snow shovel. Then I'm going to put it on my shoulder & start walking South. When I get to a place where people ask me, 'What the H is that on your...
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    Bare Bones AWI Period Southern Rifle

    In frontier America, NOTHING that could be repurposed/reused was ever thrown away. For example "Sweet Baby" the big-bore hunting rifle that the famous, or notorious (depending on one's opinion of her "rather colorful life") Harriet Potter (called: "Our very own Texas wildcat") was made of parts...
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    MOHAWK

    SPOT ON. yours, satx
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    MOHAWK

    Well that's a pity. NETFLIX isn't carried on my cable system W/O paying extra & our landlord won't allow "additions", as we are on a "bulk subscriber account". = Cable TV is included in our monthly rent. I'll have to wait till it comes out on DVD & then buy a copy as I did POLDARK, ELIZABETH...
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    MOHAWK

    I've seen neither hide nor hair of FRONTIER on our local TV schedule. What cable channel airs it?? yours, satx
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    Boiled Chicken Feet

    I like eating frog legs only a little more than I like "going gigging". (When my 1st wife/I were newlyweds & FLAT BROKE in grad school, we mostly lived off my rifle/shotgun/bow/trotlines/set-hooks/part-time jobs. = BOTH of us were trying to go to Tulane on my half of one full scholarship.) One...
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