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Everybody knows ladies are a lot more canny than us silly gents. They tend to settle for the harder to get but less risky food rather than get trapped.

Nonsense. Unless Browning had a staff of alchemists, necromancers, and other assorted wizards working on gun stocks. That's natural wood.

Gorgeous rifle! I wouldn't change a thing!

I grew up in Savannah, Georgia where living history was a way of life for a number of folks. We always marched in the Georgia Day Parade every year and had to dress as colonists or Indians. There is the colonial muster out at Wormsloe Plantation every spring, various activities at Fort...

I'm not entirely sure how to bring new blood into the sport. I live in East Alabama and grew up in Georgia. The South is a little different in that while we may have an appreciation for history, we have a voracious appetite for modern firearms. Muzzleloaders are seen as merely a way to get a...

I dig Wonder Lube. Used it for many years with no problems. I don't any longer, but that's just because I ran out and use other things now. I also like the smell. Takes me back to that first TC Hawken I shot at 6 years old. No sense on earth is as nostalgic as olfactory remembrances.

Estes also posted a job listing for a comptroller in that town in LA where Goex resides. Sounds like they were the buyers.

Welcome, from Alabama!

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Welcome from Alabama, USA!

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Welcome from East Alabama!

Welcome from East Alabama! Spent a lot of time in the Blue Ridge roundabout Boone/Banner Elk/and Blowing rock when I was younger.

Not anywhere that I can see. However, I have poured over nearly every extant photo of original Colts and never seen a flask with Colts on it. Most were just ornately stamped like this one. Colt may have subbed out the flasks to a local Connecticut factor.

Max load is kind of a sore spot for some, no pun intended. You should never need more than 100 grains in a .50. Patched Round Balls are much lighter than conicals, and you will probably not find a lot of accuracy above 100 grains. That's a very stout load in a flintlock. I have good luck with...

Here's what came out of a previously well maintained smoothbore after being neglected by me for four months. That's a formerly clean bore, in climate control. I live in Alabama, and I run humidifiers during the winter, but mind you, the bore is what rusted, not the exterior. Because black...

Howdy all. I have an 1849 Colt's Pocket, and for Christmas received what I believe is either the original, or a contemporary matching powder flask from my stepfather. The gun is a family piece acquired who knows when. Engraved and nickeled. Of course the nickel is now rotten and the barrel key...

Congrats! Looks great!

Say we cut the volume of smoke in half: still incredibly smokey compared to smokeless powder. The drastic increase in power by volume was not why it we call smokeless powder smokeless. It's the lack of smoke. Sure, it was called some other things in the late 1800s, but the world settled on...