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    Hudson's Bay Camp Knives

    IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THE MARKING ON THE KNIFE....WOULD BE A GREAT SKING KNIFE AND GENERAL USE KNIFE...THE IN HOUSE HBC STAMP IS A FOX ON A WORK CAP LOOKING LEFT OR WAS IT RIGHT /// ILL SEND A PICTURE IF I CAN FIND IT....FRED
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    Buffalo Bill Historical Center Hawken Rifle Display

    cowboy...thanks for sharing..cody is a special place to my wife and i...ive got a large bronze sculpture in the museum collection...bighorn gallery in cody has handled our art for lots of years....dr. lennard who gave those hawkens to the museum was a dear friend of mine....a few years back i...
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    Is the Recently-Discovered Beckwourth Rifle the One Jim Is Holding in His Portrait?

    NOTCHY....NO BODYS MENTIONED THAT THE UNDER SIDE OF THE BARREL IS SIGNED WITH HIS NAME...like his signature....its either an elaborate fake want to be or what...??? ive known jeff for 40 odd years and he has come up with some cool stuff...for his sake i hope its real...maybe i should take my...
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    Those California Rifles, Again

    NOTCHY...great photos...notice the trigger guard has a spur on it...i read in an interview with james clyman with a newspaper man he was asked why he moved to california when as a trapper he had been in the most beautiful places in the united states...??? he replied that he always wanted to live...
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    Some Fire Steels

    NOTCHY BOB.....WISHED WE LIVED CLOSER...LOVE TO SPEND A COUPLE DAYS JUST VISITIIIG WITH YOU OVER A LITTLE TEQUELA AND BAR B QUE RIBS.....FRED
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    Some Fire Steels

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    Some Fire Steels

    notchy bob...love this section as very few people know anything about fire steels...one of my steels in its original buckskin bag that at one time was beaded...you dont often see a steel that was really used ..its off of the ft. belnap indian reservation in montana...the other steel is from...
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    QUESTION OUT THERE..

    i didnt know many more even had an original hawken...he might had had one that eg smith made or tony lageose made...i sure miss eg...he was a real friend...i killed a nice white tale buck on what was cslled thrn papoose island owned by thane white who lived at somers in the half of the last...
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    QUESTION OUT THERE..

    notchy bb .......... your full stock is out of this world...ive got an accurate powder measure and some 499 balls that with a good patch should work...thanks for the come back....fred
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    QUESTION OUT THERE..

    52 bore...bet you know bob woodfill pretty good...i talk to him now and then...he sent me pictures of the last one...saw his shippig box to ft laramie with hawkens he built...also love his book...nobody knows hawkens better than he does...thanks for coming back ...fred
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    QUESTION OUT THERE..

    crack in mortice does not go thru....fred
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    QUESTION OUT THERE..

    dave...heres the stamp...67 springer...great idea 30 grains and 50 cal ball...ive got other muzzel loaders including origina lehman flint that ive shot some but this gun worth a little more and part of my old age retirement....fred
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    QUESTION OUT THERE..

    hi guys....ive got this original hawken full stock...had it since the 70s when you could get one...im thinking about shooting it....its got a pretty good bore...not perfect but rifelling looks ok...its off of a ranch in oregon and tho used a bunch was taken care of...woodfill said its early 1849...
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    Barnett !!! A new toy !

    BC WILL...ive got one just like yours only shorter barrel...same lock...tacks on both sides...mine off of the blackfoot reservation at browning montana,,,barnett a supplier to the hudson bay co.i had an 1860 barnett marked northwest gun...fred fellows
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    Some Questions Regarding Percussion Sharps Rifles

    HEY GUYS....there is a new book out that will answer a lot of questions about the percussion era...the book is big and really beautiful...its titled sharps firearms the percussion era 1848 to 1865...its by roy marcot ron paxton ed marron jr....roy marcot,s phone...520-906 0716 or e mail...
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    help...stuck load...historic flintlock

    THANKS FOR REPLYING...GOOD THOUGHTS ....FRED
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    help...stuck load...historic flintlock

    thank you guys...i know by all of your other threads that you guys know your stuff.....ill start by pouring oil or rust remover down the barrel and letting it stand for a couple days and injecting oil in the flash hole...them if icant get a screw in ill see if i can talk a vet or dentist to x...
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