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    Hy Hunter Zouave

    I BOUGHT ONE IN 1962, FIRED OVER 500 MINI BALLS THROUGHT IT , NO PROBLEMS, NEVER HEARD OF ANY BURST BARRELS, HUNTED BLACK BEAR IN CANADA, GREAT GUN. PAID $62.50 FOR THE GUN FROM HY HUNTER OUT OF CALIFORNIA, OF COURSE IN THOSE DAYS MUZZEL LOADERS WERE CHEAP, EVEN ORIGINALS, MY FIRST ONE WAS A...
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    Shot in the meat

    I used to skin both duck and pheasants, lay a couple of strips of bacon across them before putting them in the oven, keeps them moist!
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    Shot in the meat

    Pick up a cheap hand held metal detector, they do well in finding small lead!
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    Short barrel as powerful as long barrel?

    Y'all will have to take me with a shot of "shine", sometimes I come off as a smart ass, but this time I was a little more informed, as I give talks on John Wilkes Booth, and how he escaped and lived until 1903! At 78 my youngest daughter says I am a smart ass, but what does she know, with her...
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    Short barrel as powerful as long barrel?

    That was a .41 cal. Derringer, one of a cased pair, he dropped the other one when he jumped to the stage, the janitor found it the next day while sweeping up, the short barreled guns were for concealment, and up close and personal shots!
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    Tasty tasty Hardtack?!

    You folks ever try pure sorghum molasses with no additives, or Baer Rabbit syrup, dark Karo is only good if your making Karo Pecan pies!
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    Fried Okra Patties

    If you is a real "CoonAss" you know okra in Gumbo is the way to go, with tomatoes, rice, corn, onyons, mud bugs and all them great spices! YUM YUM!
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    Lube Question

    I have some 60 year old Crisco vegetable shorting in my shooting box that is just right for lubing the patch!
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    Gourd powder funnels

    I tried planting about 40 seeds this year, right now have only 3 gourds of any size, the blooms open at night, if something doesn't pollinate the female flower, you have to do it by hand, take a male bloom and fine brush and transfer the pollen to the female before it closes and dies! I can...
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    Gourd powder funnels

    I used a fine toothed Japanese saw!
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    Revolutionary War Bison horns ?

    When I was a young man in 1960, my family went to Niagara Falls, there was a museum on the Canadian side that had a Woods Bison head hanging on the wall and it was twice the size of our Western Bison! Don't know if it is still there or not,it's been 60 years ago!
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    Revolutionary War Bison horns ?

    Is that supposed to be a powder horn in the picture?
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    Revolutionary War Bison horns ?

    I don't know if the Eastern Bison horn was smaller, I do a living history on the Natchez Trace, and a friend dug the top half of a Bison skull out of a creek bank and the outside horn of course was gone, but the inside core was larger than my Western horn I made into a powder horn back in 1962!
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    12 gauge recoil

    I hear they have a horseless carriage in a far off land called China, it is called a rickshaw!
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    WITHDRAWN Traditions Vest Pocket Derringer

    Bought a Colt 1849 pocket pistol in 1962, only place in Memphis that sold black powder and caps only had buckshot, can't remember which size, but closest to .31 cal. , took my two cousins out to shoot, first shot was fine, second shot was a chain fire, both cousins got hit by shaved lead, I...
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    WITHDRAWN Traditions Vest Pocket Derringer

    I remember when I bought a Colt 1849 pocket pistol for $50 dollars, and when I told my friend he said he had one I could have bought for $25! This was 1962, bought a Remington over and under derringer for $32.50 at the hardware/gunshop, those were the good old days!
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    looking for info on a saddle.

    Too much leather for a McClellan, I am rebuilding one now, the back looks more like a Mexican saddle, or early TexMex saddle!
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