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I like fowlers. I have an old Nock 13 gauge that weighs about 5 pounds I'm eager to take pheasant hunting in a few weeks I'll also take my Brooks fowler out for birds too

I too have a Pedersoli Mortimer that I've used grouse hunting, primarily because where I hunt, small game season immediately precedes the muzzleloading big game season, and I used it while scouting for deer. I hunted grouse the day before big game season with the 13 gauge barrel and deer the...

You're correct. Cora does die, in the book, but Alice, is the love interest of the British officer Duncan Heyward, who get's the girl in the end, because unlike to movie where "Nathaniel Poe" shoots him, Natty Bumppo and he are good friends, rather than romantic rivals. Cora on the other hand...

Twain is fun to read because he’s a curmudgeon. He’s a precursor of Menken. Iconoclasts are driven to destroy the monuments of heroes, and as successful as Twain was, he couldn’t create a character as heroic as Hawkeye. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn while popular literary characters, never...

As literary modernists, we struggle with the prose of James Fenimore Cooper or Sir Walter Scott. But, Cooper is like an American Homer. He defined the American hero, or perhaps more particularly anti-hero, as classically as Homer defined the ancient warriors and gods. The Searchers is...

The Deerslayer was published in 1841, and is set a century earlier in the 1740's on beautiful Otsego Lake (Cooperstown, NY). It's a work of fiction, and no more bound by historical reality than is Hollywood. The Edward Marshall rifle is the earliest surviving American Rifle that I know of, and...

Following is James Fenimore Cooper's description of Killdeer from The Deerslayer. Like most of life's good thing's the rifle is a gift, symbolic of a greater love than the recipient can understand or appreciate “The piece was a little longer than usual, and had evidently been turned out from...

I was recently given a Pedersoli Mortimer flintlock shotgun/rifle combination. I like fowlers and the gun reminded me of my original Nock fowler and Mike Brooks gun that I use for pheasant and trap shooting. The Pedersoli had never been fired and was in very good condition. It's much heavier...

I would disagree that movies about the 18th century were poorly made, prior to Last of the Mohicans. I think Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon did an excellent job or portraying 18th century European life. Amadeus also depicted 18th century European life great attention to detail. LOTM is fun to...

Sold Pending Receipt of Funds. Thank You

Hi Mike, Thanks for your interest, but I haven't received an email from you. Please check the email you sent it to. My email is [email protected].

This is a very accurate P53 Enfield reproduction by James River, featuring a Hoyt Barrel and reproduction stock stamps. I've used it to introduce young shooters to blackpowder shooting. I'd typically bring this and a Snider, as well as a cap and ball revolver and Colt conversion, to youth events...

The musket is very accurate particularly when loaded with 42 1/2 grains of 3FG behind a Hodgon minie. It splits cards at 20 yards, cuts the X ring out of the target at 50 yards, breaks 6 inch ceramic tiles at 100 and rings 24" X 24" gongs at 200 yards. Oh, and you can shoot two to three shots...

SOLD! Thank You Very Much

It's a 20 gauge thank you.

Jug choked (full) flintlock fowler by Danny Caywood. 14″ length of pull. Brass furniture. Curly Maple Stock. Incised carving behind tang. Octagon to round blued 41″ barrel. $2,195.00 plus actual insured shipping. If interested, please contact me at [email protected]

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I don't use over powder or cushion wads. I only use 5 or 6 pierced overshot cards. In my experience the weight of over powder or cushion wads has a tendency to create donut patterns. On discharge, the heavy over powder and cushion wads tend to disrupt the shot column creating patterns that...

I suppose if someone is looking to take offense, they’ll always find a provocation. Never said I’ve “personally tested this load in every 12 gauge muzzleloader out there.” I said “I've shot several hundred birds and clays over the past several decades and have found nothing performs better in...

Hmmm. I've shot several hundred birds and clays over the past several decades and have found nothing performs better in any 12 gauge than 82 1/2 grains of 2FG, 4 pierced overshot wads,1 1/4 ounces of #6 shot, and 1 pierced overshot wad. I've taken tough pheasants out to 40 yards with a full jug...