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18th Century Artisan's Show Carlisle Expo Center Carlisle, Pa. February 2-February 3, 2024

Sheshequin Buckskinners Winter Rendezvous north of williamsport rt 15 to rt 14

Keep this up and you will be the new Tim Williams , Allen Martin, or Brad/Shane Emig

jasper makes good gun flints but needs to be heat treated to knap, the knapper before me at The Dixon's Gun Makers fair used local jasper (I wish I knew the source)

come to the Kempton Gun makers fair in July Kempton Pa and I do knapping demos for them

you can make a lot of the tools you need for knapping flints(chert)steps to find out what will work as gun flints: 1 try to scratch glass with rock (glass hardness 5 flint 7 and diamonds 10) 2 use a file (Smooth side and see if it sparks) 3 see if rock cleaves into usable shapes 4 put in gun...

you are right but here in berks we have to share this season with doe rifle tag holders Hi power rifles and flinters in possible buck skins/camo no hunter orange:doh: not great I wish it was flint only

Save the date: February 2nd and 3rd, 2024. Carlisle Expo Center.100 K Street, Carlisle, PA, United States,

My next-door neighbor shot/harvested a 600 pounder 2 years in a row doing drives in his 400acer corn fields(state wma on the mountain across the river next to his farm) when I lived in Lycoming county. my bear was pushed on state land west of Lockport pa. drives are nearly a mile long and are...

we do drives standers and pushers

the sparks are the flint shaving off metal in white hot sparks(metal is hardness of 5-6 flint 7 diamonds 10) normal ware.

yes it is blacken the inside of the lock and only remove what you need to, the web between your inletting and the factory cut will get very thin

the two high then I filed the rear sight to hit aim point

not hard just take your time

talk to B Hoyt about his gain twist that shoots both here's my 54 gain twist with round ball at 50 yrds (left group load workup top clean barrel then 3 touching , I then moved sights center hit)

home made peep at 100 yrds bench Lowell Haager made ghost ring sight allows more light better for hunting at dusk (bottom photo)

I found after working the WorldTrade Center recovery (help IDing the victims) for 7 months. I could no longer enjoy the kill/dressing of big game as I had before 911 the bear skin in my avatar is one of the few I have taken since. I'm more of a paper hunter punching holes in targets or steel...

when I got my green mtn barreled rifle I got this groups and patches like yours Dixons suggested 0000 steel wool oil on an under sized jag aprox 100 strokes and turned it into this and patches looked better I now polish all new barrels

reshape the frizen foot to open farther , weaken frizen spring and polish all baring surfaces100 yrds tallow lube # 40 pocket drill patch 490 ball 3f swiss 65grns sight in target shot the 2 to the right moved sight high right then final sight move down the middle with a flinch

Mr Chuck Dixon I was a cap gun guy (inline before that:doh:)