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    Time period displayed?

    Yeah, I have considered taking the mortices and wrist down a bit...
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    FOR SALE Lot of 20 Large Brass Buttons

    Wanting to make Native men's leggings from 1790-1800... Anyone w/ feedbck as to these being early enough?
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    Time period displayed?

    Let's see if this works...
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    Time period displayed?

    Need to review instructions on pics... how?
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    Time period displayed?

    Having phone problems...
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    Time period displayed?

    OOPS! THOUGHT THEY WERE ATTACHED!
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    Time period displayed?

    Picked this up in a trade 2 years ago. (NOT original, obviously...) Trying to nail down period and region.copied by builder... .50 cal., Iron furniture says Southern influence, straight stock suggests British influence and/or early in period. maybe South Carolina, 1810-1820, from depth of...
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    Remember this Davy Crockett movie scene?

    Mike Mazurki, good or bad, always one of my favorites....
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    Pryce and Redman Revolver.

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    What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

    Nope. I remember seeing the episode. Percussion lock plains rifle he leans against a tree loaded, stage of cock not remembered. It falls and hits him in the torso. Remainder of episode revolves around his survivàl while seeking help. Caplock still being used at time by settlers not that unusual...
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    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    Very interesting, Dave , and in keeping with what I have learned from members of some of the old Colonial and early Federalist-period families of tbe Carolinas, esp. SOUTH CAROLINA. This gentleman, who purchased the Peden rifle I had discussed on this forum last year. He immediately identified...
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    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    It has to do with stages of settlement in a given area... Boone, for instance, was an early settler on the Yadkin in colonial NC, while spending months as a longhunter further west in the Kain-tuck-ee.... Eventually, he led settlers into that area (losing his oldest son James in the process,)...
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    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    Getting back to the original cornbread question... Are we talking about "first wave" longhunters, "second wave" pioneer settlers, or the folks afterward in communities with trading posts, early general stores, or what? I suspect cornbread likely changed over time, as more supplies became...
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    Kibler Pennsylvania Rifles

    AAELAHHH! (No cuss words in Creek...) I paid $200 more than that for a cherry-stocked .54 Colonial 2 years ago, not nearly as well-finished, and considered it a good buy... still do, if that says anything about yours.
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