This is a rifle. .490 ball in the muzzle.
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You call that a rifle.
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Pete G
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You’re going to need a thicker patch. 
What caliber? There's no joke if we don't know the caliber. 
If you watched Crocodile Dundee, you would understand the joke without an explanation..What caliber? There's no joke if we don't know the caliber.
squirrel rifle?
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Yeah, you could probably fit a squirrel in there.
Yeah, you could probably fit a squirrel in there.
Look very much like a .490 ball setting in the muzzle of my .75 Yeager.
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I was gonna say.75 or .80
For the record it is a .75. Why my buddy ordered it in that caliber I don't know.
Banjoman
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Probably shoots good with 4f,,,,
So what kind of powder charge are we talking about here?
Sorry, I've watched it half a dozen times and I still didn't get it. Sorry for being so dense, and I missed the knife metaphor entirely until posted as such.
It's not at all hard in print media to be too clever by a half and miss most of the bang for the buck.
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This rifle is a version of a Thomas Simpson rifle which was a real made in Kentucky rifle. Not Pennsylvania. You can read more about the KY rifles in Mel Hankla's book.
So do you load the charge in the little tin foil packets? And head out to Isla Nublar?
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Better have a sturdy wall behind you when it’s touched off!
The scene from Police academy where granny touched of the big 44 came straight to my brain.
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I have forgotten about those movies, they were great! I watched them as a kid over and over.
