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    how far is too far

    I just harvested a good sized antelope w/ my .54 flinter shooting 85fffg and .530 swaged RB at.......125 yds. Shot from a firm seated position, thanks to the USMC rifleman training. Hit slightly high on the back and broke the spine.
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    62 colrain barrel

    I have a later style flinter fitted for 2 different colrain barrels, this gun has a hooked breech and I just remove the three keys and switch barrels, very nice to get use to one gun but be able to hunt any game. One barrel is a .62 rifled which I shoot .595 r/b with .016-.018 patching; the...
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    20 gauge smoothy at the range

    Been using 75 grs of fffg and equal to equal plus 1/2 of #5 shot on the trail for critter dinners. Figure I'd see what it would do with R/B. .595 was hard to load with .15 pillow ticking so I went to a .590 r/b. With 75grs fffg it was right on at 15yds, about 3" high at 50yds, and about 10"...
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    Individual hunting methods

    When I lived back east I would use a stand during the early morning and late afternoon hours. During the day I would still hunt. But now living out west in NV it is a totally different ball game. What I found works best out here is get to high ground, glass (binos or spyglass) during the...
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    Wind and primer

    Those Ozark Mtn Arms guns are sure built nice, I have a .50 percussion. Very nice indeed. I've never seen a Ozark flinter. What lenght barrel do you have on it?
  6. M

    TVM Smoothbore

    Last I heard Jim Searles the owner retired up to Oregon and JP gunstock went by the wayside. I had trade rifle from them with a .54 GRRW barrel....selling it is my biggest regret when it comes to missing old guns.
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