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congrats on a great hunt. beautiful buck and flinter

Welcome from Lancaster, PA

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Welcome aboard from Lancaster, PA

Congrats on a successful hunt. I'm sure that you were exhausted after getting that cow out of the woods. Last year, I skinned my frozen buck and I can sympathize with how difficult the job is. All that work will make that delicious elk even taste better. Thanks for sharing.

That's a beautiful firearm

Here's my homemade cleaning gizmo. I took a small C-clamp and drilled through the end. JB Welded a "gutted" zerk fitting and glued a rubber washer to the inside. I clamp the device over the touch hole and run the hose into a jug of hot soapy water + Dawn. Push a wet patch on a jag back and...

Welcome from Lancaster, PA

I like it! you could use different animal hides for different size shot. ie. Deer hide for buck shot.

Simple but complex at the same time.

Nice! What is the date of it?

Sometimes my brain works overtime. I thought that because it is water soluble it might make barrel cleaning easier. I knew that I was going to get some interesting responses.

I was thinking about something like K-Y jelly.

I know that there are as many patch lubes for muzzleloaders out there as there are members. Last night, I started thinking about if there was some form of water soluable patch lube that could be tried for use in muzzleloaders. I thought that it might make cleanup between shots easier that fat or...

I like it a lot. Where did you see the original?

I watched the video last night on the Kalthoff. I'm still amazed at the engineering and construction of this hand-built rifle even by today's standards let alone in 1659. I want one!

Thanks Harry. I wanted it to look historically as close as possible.

Beautiful horn TrailWalker.

I stitched the sides just up to the bottom of the spout. Trimmed away excess leather and then wrapped the simulated sinew.

Thanks guys.