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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    In my neck of central PA, it was called "stuffed goose" and it is included in many church "Dutch dinners" (All PA Dutch foods)
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    There is one thing worse than having a wife than can cook and won't. That is a wife that can't cook and does. cooking was so foreign to my ex wife that she needed a passport to enter the kitchen. Her idea of making eggs for breakfast was drop a pat of butter in a pan, add two eggs, put it...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    Darn Guy. Don't know where you are. Here in York PA, several places have turkeys for less than a buck a pound and we stopped at one place that had frozen turkeys for 47 cents a pound. We bought three yesterday. and two a couple of weeks ago. As Mrs. says, we can't buy dog food that cheap...
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    There's am odd thing that I have been noticing around here. Most of the services selling pre-made Thanksgiving day dinners include mac and cheese as a side dish. The thought of pasta on Thanksgiving was totally alien where I grew up but seems to be becoming a norm, like the green bean casserole.
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    Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

    PA Dutch make stuffing with mashed potatoes and sausage (and spices and celery etc. Tradition at our house as well as some relatives was spiced apple rings. Apple Dumplings, with ice cream and caramel sauce. for dessert. On my mothers side, the holidays were the only time of the year that...
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    How Long Do You Expect A Frizzen To Last ?

    frizzen life depends on alloy, angle struck by the flint, etc. The original TC flintlocks were really bashers, with the flint striking about 3/5ths of the way from bottom to top and then scraping through the case hardening. My first TC frizzen was worthless before 50 shots. I expoxied a piece...
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    Charlie Smithgall Has Passed

    decades ago, my young son was enthralled by cannons in the movies, so I took him to Ft Shenandoah for the fall nationals to see the cannon matches. Charlie Smithgall saw my son's interest and gave my 6 yr old son the grand tour of the cannon, spent a good 15 minutes explaining how it works, how...
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    Spanish smooth bores

    The CVA trapper 12 ga had an octagon to round barrel. There were also a few Jukar and Ardesa guns that were made and not imported to the US. Sometimes brought back from Europe by Service men, etc.
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    Spanish smooth bores

    back around 1976 CVA sold a percussion single barrel 20 or 12 ga with interchangeable chokes. (I think they called it the trapper and 15 yrs later sold a pistol they called the trapper.) about 1985or so, they sold a double 12 ga, a double 20 and IIRC, even a limited production double 410.
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    What do I have?

    A franken gun. Trigger guard is from a flobert style rifle. Somebody put a well tuned lock on the gun. It probably has a few other odd characteristics too. A well tuned lock, trigger and good barrel can be a match shooter even if the stock is a fir 2 x 4. and the furniture made from an...
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    Anyone recognize these proof marks?

    here is a list of foreign proof marks from the NRA Museum. https://www.nramuseum.org/media/940944/proofmarks.pdf The fine twist barrel shotguns normally come from England, but the locks look German. (that kind was used on muzzle loading Sheutzen guns.
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    Anyone recognize these proof marks?

    Looks like there were numerous other marks that have been almost worn away. British and Belgian shotguns normally have the bore of each barrel stamped in millimeters on the under side of the breech. I see nothing like that. But some partial marks of some kind are there. .
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    54 cal flintlock smoothbore pistol

    Why? Makes no sense.
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    When did small caliber rifles become a thing and why?

    I live in what was once part of Philadelphia County, once part of Lancaster County PA, and also what was once part of Maryland. Cresap's War, between Maryland and Pennsylvania was all around me (8 miles south of Wrightsville) Meylin, was also in the area contested between the two colonies...
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    Muzzleloading myth busting

    The guy is an *****. He dispenses "one size fits all" maxims without considering some of the guns sold over the past 50 years. Take notice when he primed the gun, he held the muzzle down and never tilted the gun back up to have the bulk of the powder go back down the barrel to the breech...
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    When did small caliber rifles become a thing and why?

    The first of the Angstadt family of gunsmiths, set up shop in Rockland Township, Berks County in 1747. No known examples of his work survive. But there are numerous examples of guns made by his brother, sons, nephews and grandchildren. His shop was less than 3 miles from the area settled By...
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    When did small caliber rifles become a thing and why?

    I think large calibers were originally because smithing and machining simply was crude and not particularly accurate. Hence the 100 caliber Arquebusses and Muskets of the very early days. As metallurgy and machining became more accurate, calibers dropped., although some fine small caliber guns...
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    Ranges near Lehigh Valley, PA?

    There used to be a public range at the state game lands on the north side of Lake Nockamixon. I shot there regularly 30 - 40 yrs ago before I moved. No idea if it is still open
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    Converting reproduction to Percussion

    Never saw a TC made gun with a drum. Most production guns with bolsters have a slot to fit over the lock. Not all guns with bolsters however have such slots. On some the lock was cut out. 1853 Enfield for instance. Zouave, etc.
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    Converting reproduction to Percussion

    Oh man. This question comes up at least once a month on various forums and sites that I visit. Some conversions are easy, some may as well get a second gun. Anything is possible with enough know how, tools and funds. Back in the day, I had a single franken gun put together with a Cabelas...
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