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    When to change touch hole liner?

    and for bench, cross stick and chunk shooters, the hole in the target is all that matters. (I have always been a lousy offhand rifle shooter, but still had good days sometimes)
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    Range Report with question

    1 in 48 sounds like one of those compromise bores that is supposed to shoot PRB or bullet equally for hunting. Like the old TC barrels. faster than 60 grains might be just enough to cause some skipping of the patch over the rifling. A tighter patch and ball combination may help as suggested...
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    The Best Muzzleloading Movies

    I am still enamored with Treasure Island. I re-read the book every 5 or 6 years and loved the movie with Newton as Long John. Also another Stevenson book, Kidnapped. and the movie. When my kids were growing up, I would read a chapter a day from the books to them and then we would have a...
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    The Best Muzzleloading Movies

    Shooting an Indian with a ram rod was in the very very old B&W Last of the Mohicans.
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    When to change touch hole liner?

    when you can load a 177 pellet in the touch hole and simultaneously shoot the guy next to you and the target. Seriously though, a touch hole should last you thousands of shots. You stand a bigger chance of cross threading the thing from taking it in and out for cleaning. (a fair number of...
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    The Future of Traditional Muzzleloaders?

    That's an irrational comparison. Kibler is the most home owner friendly custom rifle kit. and yes there is demand, but cornering the limited market is like being the last station in the county to sell gasoline without alcohol. Folks will line up for gas for their antique vehicles, and small...
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    The Future of Traditional Muzzleloaders?

    There were low end, like the Century arms 58 caliber flintlock muskets that couldn't fire because the frizzens were not hardened, and there were low end like the Replica Arms guns from Italy or CVA guns from Spain. The latter group differed immensely because they worked. Maybe not great with 3...
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    The Future of Traditional Muzzleloaders?

    Here in PA we have a three week Flintlock only season for deer, starting the day after Christmas. It keeps traditional rifles alive here. But so many hunters buy a short barreled 50 caliber Spanish made carbine with day glo plastic sights and plastic stock. About as traditional as a pink...
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    The Future of Traditional Muzzleloaders?

    The movie Davy Crockett and the centennial of the civil war, spurred a major interest in traditional muzzle loading. Modern style muzzle loaders were limited to one of a kind models from tinkerers' garages. Before the interest died down we were into the bicentennial of the revolution and...
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    New build for left eyed righthand shooter

    There had been a competition shotgun on display at the NRA museum when it was still in DC. a WW2 vet lost sight in his right eye and so a special shotgun was built with a butt stock that met the right shoulder but came up in front of the left eye. The butt stock looked like a fish with a tail...
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    When did small caliber rifles become a thing and why?

    Early tax records for Rockland township. I believe he was also identified as a gunsmith in records for Gumbrechtshoffen in Alsace before he left for America. I ran across a possibly conflicting record that said he was an apprentice gunsmith in Saxony when he left for the new world. But there...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    My dad was hard core PA Dutch. He was a county game warden and put a lot of back roads miles on the vehicle. ie No restaurants or places to grab a bite to eat. He often traveled with a bag of apples behind the seat, some other snack like nuts with protein and I remember there was often a...
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    hunters, how do you handle your deer once it is down?

    65 years ago, I was taught, the first thing was to cut the jugular, then remove the glands, then gut the animals, and even pack the cavity with snow to help cool off the carcass. No I have to admit, I never had to trail a deer (maybe I am more fussy about shots taken) Deer were always down...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    Did you ever hear of "fried stickies?" Big deal up in State College PA. They take stale sticky buns, slice em, spread butter and fry them on both sides on a griddle like a grilled cheese sandwich. Well, those fruitcakes that everybody makes fun of? Same thing, slice em about 3/8 of an...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    Do the same, but I use butternut squash. naturally sweeter, finer consistency, less stringy and not as watery as pumpkin.
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    Actually, "oyster pirates" Back in the 1830's already there were oyster wars between Virginia and Maryland Watermen on the Chesapeake, and New England oyster ships also poached oysters after depleting their supply. Shots frequently fired. In the 1920's, it got so bad that Maryland DNR...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    We often get rotisserie chickens from a local place for $4.99. it is nearly impossible to buy a raw chicken and roast it for that price. I strip the bulk of the meat from the skeleton and throw the bones, wings, necks etc in a pot of water and simmer them for 20 mins perhaps 3 times over a...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    The tom's Cover Acquaculture company actually floats the oysters in cages where fresh ocean water flows in the channel and the oysters eliminate much of the "green stuff" as well as most any grit and sand. My uncle would do the same with oysters and clams in a large tub of salt water for 12...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    IIRC, The term meat originally included just about any non-grain food. Mince(d) referred to the consistency, chopped fine. In the US some traditional oaths for bailiffs to watch over jurors still specify that they shall not permit the jury to have "meat or drink" I have a copy of a...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    We got to oyster festivals 2 x a year. I don't like them fried or raw, but I can eat a few dozen steamed. Some restaurants in lower Delmarva serve broiled oysters. Took a lot of urging to get the current Mrs. to try them, and she loves them. Not sure of the exact recipe, but a raw oyster on...
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