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    Authenticity of Veteran Arms Brown Bess Muskets

    What is TRS?
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    Trying the mystical "Cut in Half" round ball shooting for accuracy...??

    When Daniel Boone was captured and imprisoned with the Shawnee, Chief Blackfish adopted him and trusted him to hunt deer with a single round ball given to him. He would split the balls in two, shoot a deer or two with them. After a prong longed time he had enough full round balls collected to...
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    Too small balls

    So we may have two meanings for the OP abbreviations, "over powder" or "original poster"?
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    This Poor Renegade had to come home with me

    Nice job of draw filing. What cut of file did you use? A friend had Bobby Hoyt re bore his .54 Renegade to .58 and slow 1-60 (?) twist. Felt light and imagine it will recoil a lot more than as a .54.
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    This Poor Renegade had to come home with me

    Rebel Bill. looks like a 56 caliber smoothbore. How does it shoot and hunt with shot? What loads for best pattern for No. 5 or 6 shot?
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    Picked up a pile of "chunks"(or probably not!)

    Try shooting them all for best fit and accuracy. Keep the best two. Sell the rest. The crescent butt plates make them suitable for offhand if the rifles aren't too heavy. I prefer a flatter butt plate for bench or prone chunk gun shooting. Any of his club members familiar with their history...
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    Hawken Rifles, What's All The Hoopla?!

    Sage1, take a close look at the original and Bob Browner's copy of a Hawken half stock. Compare to the modern knock offs including Lyman Great Plains and Pedersolis. The present butt stock has the heel touching the ground and the toe up off the ground when the barrel and rifle is held...
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    Knifes etc. Hunting. Butcher. Pocket.

    Trigger, I've been watching Black Bear Forge, too. Is he in Colorado? Filing the Old Hickory to get primary bevel might be overkill and take off more steel than you need to. A friend carried a file on his hunting trips to quick sharpen his gutting, skinning Old Hickory knives but they wore...
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    Can powder brand be responsible for this much difference?

    On a full stock I could bend a piece of index card and trap it between the barrel and stock, creating a shader to avoid any glare on the front sight. Unless the powder had moisture a 12 inch difference seems like a big deviation. Maybe bench it at 25 and 50 yards to check drop and tightness of...
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    .62 Rifle Build, 2nd Try

    Bought parts from an estate for the previous owner's idea of a super Hawken but in .62 caliber and not .69 or larger. Beautiful curly maple full stock with left hand L and R lock but the barrel is only 1 inch across the flats. No stamp on the barrel for maker. Patent breech threads into...
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    Muzzleloader magazine

    We're glad you're running the business and wish you could get some help. Have been a long time subscriber and when delivering mail for USPS, would read my issue during lunch break. Hope to send some submissions for articles but have to get up to speed on digital images and thumb drive or pdf...
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    Only one gun allowed!

    Outside your list of choices - back action left hand flintlock swivel shoulder arm with .62 caliber rifled barrel and .63 caliber smoothbore. Both barrels can take a .610 patched round ball and smoothbore take shot or buck and ball. On your list, flintlock rifle .50 caliber or larger.
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    Elk calling

    LongCruise, I put in for muzzle loading elk and pronghorn. Where I have permission to hunt pronghorn on private land only was hit really bad two winters ago and not many yearlings or does. No doe tags for antelope will be issued where I applied. Didn't draw or hunt antelope in 2023 and now...
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    Elk calling

    Bugling to sound like a lesser bull tends to draw in satellite bulls or move herd bull and herd away in my experience.. First 5 x 5 heart shot at 25 yards was called in with a Carlton call. Another hunter in our camp said it was coming into him two mountain tops away when I pulled it away...
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    How do you stabilise your rifle for load testing/sighting in?

    I have a permanent scorch mark on my hunting frock using the over the hood method. For bench rest load development sand bags with fore stock near muzzle. But prints high compared to offhand and hand holding from sitting position so rest hand on sand bags and fore stock. If opportunity and...
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    Wasps Nest?

    They ought to invent a patterning board that moves across horizontally at the same rate of speed as a flying bird to see the actual stringing of the shot, not something you can't tell on a stationery pattern board. Does the superposed wasp nest - shot column do well on clays and live birds? I...
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    Problem with ignition on my new Hawken

    Sounds like no fire from nipple to powder. Would taking out the nipple and running a pipe cleaner through the channel in the snail clear the fouling? Assume the Hawken has a snail in the patent breech and not a drum. I recommend a stainless steel work rod and muzzle protector and ball...
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    Skychief question

    A 90 year old friend used to tape clear glass microscope slides over the sensors of his chronograph when shooting black powder. He also tested penetration on steel tin cans out to projected hunting range. That Garmin Xero C1 - what is the price?
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    Skychief question

    Tow is waste from making flax linen thread and used for tinder nests in fire starting. Any problem with smoldering tow when loaded over powder and potential fire danger in the dry woods or plains?
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    Skychief question

    Good info here. Urge you study pin on by Zonie. I have most all the cards and wads for 12 gauge. We should get out to the range to pattern and test a cylinder bored shotgun. I'd use 2F Goex or Schuetzen in it. Old blueprint paper or 4 foot square cardboard tacked to patterning board at...
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