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1777 French Musket
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I know I’ll always feel that way! My wife says I’m a child all the time so I don’t think I’m growing up anytime soon!
No, we never can get cured. I had a friend the passed away in 94, every now and then he visits in a dream bragging about going hunting with Dan Boone and Joe Meek.
I think he is just name dropping
At almost 79 I tell my wife that I may grow old, but will never grow up!
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The NMLRA has a book on gun making in the 18th C. which includes a great section on specific mfg. practices in France's factories making the Charlevilles, etc. It's a translation some officer wrote in the early 1800's and gives an inside view on how each part was made and by what type of worker. Interesting if you're a French Musket geek! Check the NMLRA site for books, you'll see it. (Editor Eric Bye) I don't have the specifics at hand at the moment.
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The "new gun on the way" feeling never gets old
Is it a Pedersoli?
I'm currently fitting a new old stock replacement stock to mine because the past owner had it above a fireplace and dried the wood out
It will probably look rough but I'll just think of it as a "field replacement stock "
Is it a Pedersoli?
I'm currently fitting a new old stock replacement stock to mine because the past owner had it above a fireplace and dried the wood out
It will probably look rough but I'll just think of it as a "field replacement stock "
The Disease that keeps on giving... happiness!
No; it's incurable.
Embrace the ailment!
No; it's incurable.
Embrace the ailment!
Yes it is. Corrige IX
About 60 yrs ago my dad had a trapdoor and showed me how to shoot it. I've have never gotten over the love of a long gun.
Jack
I’m 65, but lost friends in their forties and fifties when they went. Every morning if you wake up and move fast you may see the Reeper sitting in the corner of your room contemplating if today is your day.
But…. If he lets me get out of bed I might as well ignore him and live like my tomorrows are endless
Soon I will have a forth long gun in my harem. Been a long time since I owned that many at once.
Pretty girls still make me smile, smooth wood and iron still feels good in my hands. Camp fires and chilly mornings still warm my soul, good beer and a good smoke are still looked forward to joys
L’chaim
Well, you guys certainly are encouraging.
I'm pushing 75. Cancer a couple of years back took away most of my strength and stamina. However, I beat it, and have gained back at least some of my former sturdiness. All my hunting partners have either passed on or simply put away their guns and no longer hunt. My boys never took to it anyway. So, I continue to hunt alone.
I have a decent collection of percussions and flintlocks, but last spring I bought a (new to me) late Lancaster style flintlock and have been using it to hunt this season.
The fever continues to burn. And, that is good! ():~)
I'm pushing 75. Cancer a couple of years back took away most of my strength and stamina. However, I beat it, and have gained back at least some of my former sturdiness. All my hunting partners have either passed on or simply put away their guns and no longer hunt. My boys never took to it anyway. So, I continue to hunt alone.
I have a decent collection of percussions and flintlocks, but last spring I bought a (new to me) late Lancaster style flintlock and have been using it to hunt this season.
The fever continues to burn. And, that is good! ():~)
now I rely like your analogy on life! it is so true! if you get up in the AM, you don't know if you are going to go to bed at the end of the PM? so as you say enjoy it! it is later than we think!
dr.s.goerisch
32 Cal
Now 73, I have quit shooting my (Pedersoli made) musket IX (l'an neuf) in competitions four years ago, as shooting it has relieved me of just too many teeth in the upper jaw.
This mother of a gun would only give me tite groups with loads of 90 grains plus of Swiss #4, whilst delivering a decent punch.
Besides, when an ex-member of the German national team borrowed my musket for a state championship match, he ruined the stock by trying to force oversized balls down the bore, using a heavy mallet and whacking away on the short starter like a madman.
I repaired the stock by fitting a piece of brass rod through the end of the crack, using epoxi glue. This (thoroughly untraditional) repair has stood up to the shooting (and loading) stress so far.
ohio ramrod
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I am 75 had four back surgeries, two hip replacements, Two catarack surgeries, I get a shot in the left eyeball every four weeks, and I am scheduling at least six rendezvous for the upcoming year. I'll play this game as long as I can.For me just being able to play the game makes me a winner!
While I might be behind you in years of experience, I concur with your statement!
