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Thank you BK, much appreciated. I hope the gun likes the 465gr solid long nose bullets as much as I do. If not, I may look into getting a mold of that bullet scaled down to 400gr & try that. The 420gr NE's should shoot well in it. Yeah, I know I'll need to do some maj tree branch trimming on my...

That made me lol a lil bit & reflect waaaaay back around 30yrs ago when a buddy took me to the private 200m shooting range he belonged to. We were shooting .223’s & 7.62x39’s and he broke out the only .54 or .56 Hawkens I’d ever seen & asked me if I’d like to shoot it. I had only shot .50...

Great thread, awesome story of a wonderful family dove hunt.

Sweet!

When I was a kid I hunted squirrels with a .410 singleshot. I had to learn to hit everything with that gun for 5 yrs. As I got into my teens & could shoot pretty well by then, I wanted more of a challange, so I quit using a shotgun for squirrels & only used a .22 bolt action ( it would appear...

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Forgive me if I'm wrong here...... but ain't squirrel hunting with a .50 akin to skeeter huntin with a bazooka?

Nice Nice! Now thats " livin " right there bud.

Yep, I've had a Bob Hoyt re bore & he will be doing my next one as well.

I have an older Pedersoli 12ga SxS with 30" imp/cyl barrel. I tried shooting at one of 3 huge Osceola longbeards with it at 30yds & it didnt do anything to them. I let both barrels of 80gr T7/ 1/8" wad 1.5oz #5 shot ( its all I have ) & an over shot card - fly, & all 3 birds flew over the fence...

I didn't know that. I've shot a lot of sporting clays, but never with my BP shotgun. Nor have I ever seen or even heard of a woods walk sporting clay course for BP shotgunners. Thats really cool & I'd love to go to one. I can easily see ( after being a ML shooter for 35yrs ) why the ML course...

Thanks for sharing your wonderful experience with me/us. It warms my heart to hear stories like yours, but it also stirs some still hard & hurtful memories of bein a child around the age ( 8 ) that I got to do a lot of hunting with my beloved grandpa ( including my very first squirrel hunt ) &...

I don’t see anything wrong with them.

Like many, I too grew up squirrel hunting from the age of 8. After having raised 5 grey squirrels from babies & befriending s few wild ones I don’t hunt them anymore. But I’ll still belly up to the table if someone else kills & cooks them.

I really miss dove & quail hunting. I haven’t done either in the 8 long yrs I’ve been in Fl.

Does anyone know when the ridiculous term “ holy black “ was first used, and more importantly, WHY? Afterall, truth be told, it’s just gunpowder, there NOTHING “ holy “ about it.

Thats a very good possibility there. He could have high mineral content in his water & that may have caused that reaction.

I'm in the humid south, I not so very long ago started using ballistol to spray on a rag to wipe my gun exterior down with after the cleanings. I like to use it to spray my ROA down with after the cleaning as well. So far I'm happy with it. Thats the first non green can of it that I've ever seen...

I just got my first BP revolver this yr. after everything I’ve read & heard about them, the Ruger Old Army - ROA takes the top place in quality & performance. So that’s what I got. It has lived up to its reputation & I couldn’t be more pleased with it. I saw that your budget is around 500.00 &...

Exactly, good explanation.