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    Failed to fire, how to best extract or remove .50 sabot and 100 grain load?

    Stop with the foul language!
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    Davy Crockett King Frontier

    We used to have dirt bomb fights - throwing dirt clods at each other. I had a Hopalong Cassidy outfit with silver plated cap pistols. Playing at night with one of those shiny cap guns in hand, I remember trying to sneak up on some of my friends. They spotted the gleam of my cap gun as I...
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    Was Dutch right about wiping between shots?

    I fully agree with tenngun. I, too, like a 5/64 or 3/32 touch hole. Also, I have never had a gun with a "patent breech", but I have often heard that people have problems with them. Nor, have I ever had a gun with a vent liner. I agree with Ravenshear that a vent liner was originally a...
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    How many....

    I've tried it. It didn't seem to make any difference, so I generally don't bother with it.
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    Insurance

    I missed that. Sorry. But it was Mark C J, the original poster that mentioned them. Not me. I had missed that in his post, hence my question, thinking that you brought it up. Apologizes. "Last night I attended our monthly meeting of my local SAR. I asked about the color guard needing...
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    Insurance

    National Park Service??? This is about the color guard of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), a national organization for the descendants of Revolutionary War veterans. Besides the national, each state has its top organization, and then there are multiple local chapters. The SAR color...
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    Hi from Czechia!

    Another welcome from East Tenasi (Tennessee) I'm a half Czech. My Dad was from the Morava part of the old Czechoslovakia.
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    Asking for help with a Rifle Shoppe Baker Rifle: groups at 50 yards have become dreadful.

    All of the above is good advice. However, check that your barrel is tight in the stock. Maybe the barrel keys are loose, and the barrel moves around slightly.
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    Opening Morning

    Yesterday was opening morning for the Tenasi muzzleloader deer season. I was in my local ground blind before dawn. No wind. Clear sky. Temperature in the low to mid 60's. At dawn came the birds. Two kinds of wrens, a little mouse-like "winter wren" hopped around on the brush and logs of my...
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    Buck vs Doe

    I, too, grew up in NJ and began hunting there. I actually took my first deer in PA. My second in NJ. I hunt for meat, buck or doe taste the same. However, I am reluctant to shoot a doe, specifically because of that procreation factor. We have a long deer season here in TN. I usually hold...
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    Missed opportunities

    I had a wolf encounter in the UP of Michigan years ago. By mutual agreement, we each went our separate ways. I've been hunting for 66 years now. Approximately the first half of that time was with modern firearms. Because I didn't know anything else. Then I was introduced to traditional...
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    Importance of Shot Placement vs Power

    The famous writer Robert Ruark once said, "Use enough gun." He was talking about big, dangerous African game, but he was so right. A .22 caliber, and I don't care if it's a .22lr, a .223, or a .220 Swift - .22's are NOT deer calibers. Yes, I am well aware that .22's have taken large game, but...
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    Hoping for information about a rifle

    I am certainly far from being an expert, however I will throw in my 2 cents and say that to me your rifle says "southern Appalachian with a Carolina influence. And I will guess mid to late 1800's. It's the trigger guard that makes me think of the Carolinas. But being a half stock, I think it...
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    Hard, brittle, and fast PRB for more damage?

    Excellent post, Dave.
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    Rocky Mountain blue bird.

    When I was a little kid, about 4, maybe 5 years old I found a blue egg in my aunt's flower bed beside her house. It was Easter time, and I thought it was an Easter egg. I picked it up and took a bite. Aaaaghaatheee, gaaa, patooie! I now know it was a robin's egg that had fallen from a nest.
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    Loss In Floods, Fires, etc.

    One thing that really gets me riled is people who intentionally deface and destroy historical artifacts, archeological sites, and works of art.
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    Shooting Wooden Bullets? Are they effective?

    Since we're talking about blanks now, I can tell you this, back in the 1980's we were training with paintball guns and sometimes blanks in our service handguns. Someone got the idea of loading a cotton ball in the blank cartridges believing that it would shoot out and harmlessly tap someone...
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    Shooting Wooden Bullets? Are they effective?

    Law enforcement did some experimenting with wood round balls fired from a 12 ga. shotgun for use in riot control back in the 1970's. Supposed to be non-lethal, but if a wood ball hit someone in the head - oh well. Hard rubber balls were found to work better, although it could still be lethal...
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    Loading block question

    I use a loading block for both rifle and smoothbore when using a single round ball. I make my own loading blocks. For hunting I like only two or three balls in a block. Light weight and convenient if I have to make a quick second shot. When I used to shoot in competition I had loading blocks...
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    What is your choice of shot container for the field?

    I use an old powder horn. Mine holds about 8 loads of #6 shot by volume for my 20 ga..
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