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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    Yes, I see lots of different statutes, from state to state, including some which have decided that ML & BP must be licensed, registered and controlled... but I don't live in the PRC, and our forefathers beat the mightiest nation on earth with squirrel guns... What bugs me about the NM law is...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    have yet to see a BP firearm that was rear-loading. Even revolvers are loaded from the front of the cylinder, although you could shove the charge, wad and ball down the barrel with a ramrod, if you prefer to do everything the hard way. Myself, I'm thankful for the little bar under the barrel of...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    What's really fascinating is that, here in New Mexico, scopes are forbidden when hunting deer or elk, because they say it doesn't give the animal a fair chance... yet you can fire up your Garand with a scope, and there's no issues, lol!
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    Thank you for the "young adult" remark, although I doubt you'd get my 7 grandchildren to go along with that, lol!
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    Wondering about the wads...

    Well, being new to all this, I tried to buy equal amounts of every thing that the forums indicated were necessary to shoot the gun. I bought 400 round balls, 400 primers and 400 wads for the two rifles, and 200 round balls, 200 #10 caps, and 200 wads for the CVA 1858 Army pistol (which wasn't...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    Really have no intention of pushing any boundaries, but was trying to find out what they are, lol!
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    Who among us are PIPE smokers?

    I remember that, in the appendices for the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien just said it was a variant of Nicotiana... They talked about different blends in the book, but there was never any mention of flavors, so I'm guessing his idea of blends were burleys or cavendishes....
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    Added skunk skin to possibles bag

    Okay, got it, thanks!
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    Added skunk skin to possibles bag

    Newbie here. I keep seeing mention of a possibles bag, but still haven't heard what goes in the bag, lol! I gather if I just track down an old fanny pack and use that, I would be shunned until the end of time lol. So what is a possibles bag, and what can I make or buy for one that won't get me...
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    Wondering about the wads...

    I'll bet I've watched at least 200 videos on muzzle loaders on youtube, in the last three months. I've noticed that almost NOBODY is putting the lubricated wads in between their powder load and their ball. I bought about four hundred of the things, and I'm starting to wonder if they are even...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    I already said I wasn't trolling, nor was I being condescending or snotty. I said that apparently a muzzle loader could fit perfectly into the definition, but if it didn't look exactly like the ones from 170 years ago, then somehow it wasn't a real muzzle loader. As I said, I could take an...
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    Howdy Howdy!

    I'm way up in the mountains here, in New Mexico, imagine I'm probably at about the same stage of Autumn as you are, that far north...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    Was there something ambiguous in all of this? Jeez, sorry I didn't walk in an expert!
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    I'm not trolling. I did join the modern sister forum. I simply asked questions to see what the safe boundaries were, which is the actual title of this thread, but instead I'm running into a lot of people who act like I dropped trou and took a dump on the flag. I asked questions, guys, how am I...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    Thank you, already feeling welcomed!
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    I was, again, trying to determine where the lines were drawn. I once saw a guy who took apart his 30-06 and made it look like a Kentucky long rifle. Maybe such things have their place among gun collectors and gun-avids, but even I understand such a thing would have no place in a muzzle-loader...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    I honestly wasn't trying to troll, I was trying to clarify. I perceived that the objection to in-lines was because they A) didn't exist in 1865, and B) look like modern cartridge rifles, even though they are muzzle loading. After all, the title at the top of the page does include the tagline...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    Ok, Dave, seeing the logic in all your points! So the idea is TRADITIONAL muzzle loaders, or recreations of them that stick to the original design, am I right? So, for example, I can make a note-for-note copy of an old Kentucky flintlock squirrel rife from the 1820's, with no issues, but if I...
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    Trying to stay out of trouble, here!

    Thank you!!!
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    Howdy Howdy!

    Native Texan myself (just barely, I was born in El Paso)
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