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    musket caps on percussion rifle??

    Whoa! don't have a clue how this happened :hmm: Moderators can delete it if they want....
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    musket caps on percussion rifle??

    With the further information supplied I get where you are going, it just seemed the original post was making an assumption of why someone would want to use musket caps was due neglect of their rifle, which really wasn't the trend of the post's up to that point. Anyhooo...... :v
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    musket caps on percussion rifle??

    I second the why "Shame on You" I stalk hunt, moving thru forest and mixed bush and swamp area's and I always pinch the cap,be it no.11 or Musket, because experience has shown me that caps can get plucked off a nipple otherwise and I have went in to an area when temperatures have been just above...
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    Canadian question

    The entry onto private land in the case of a DNR officer or indeed any LEO falls under the provision "in pursuit of duties" and that can be to check if you are carrying a firearms, at a distance a post hole auger can look like a longarm or because some passerby reported suspicious activity. As...
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    musket caps on percussion rifle??

    A problem with the no.11 caps is removing them from the nipple, should you need to without discharging the muzzle loader (walking along a surface road, after legal shooting hours, crossing a stream or fence)and doing it while the outside temperature may be -10 F or colder, musket caps no...
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    Yeah, I have been around this issue or ones similar for quite a few years and even for a period of time was one of those people who had a hand in framing/updating regulations and attempting to maintain the oh so fine balance between various groups and technology and funding and management and...
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    Yes that can be one way to look at it. But, I am not looking at short term, which is what most of the traditional or primitive style hunters are doing. If an administration, finds that the returns or an interest in a season, is dwindling and the funds are not coming in to support it, then what...
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    I was referring to the presence of scopes on period muzzle loaders and how a case could be made that one so scoped could be considered a traditional hunting arm and on that basis alone you could not exclude optics or their use on any muzzle loader of today.
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    I have had a chance to inspect many of the traditional scopes and they were like the external adjustment Unertl and Lymans of the earlier part of 20 th century capable of very fine adjustment and allowed engagement at ranges that most would find unbelievable today. If anything they were heads...
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    Well, your arguments did give me some food for thought, nice talking to you about it.
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    At the end of the Civil war, ten's of thousands of rifled muskets were in the hands of hunters and to them that rifle with it's minnie style bullet was "their" traditional hunting rifle, not the PRB shooting muzzle loading rifle, which was still around, but the soldiers who came back from the...
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    A problem with the RB only versus the modern bullet, theory is it can be and has been asked what is a modern bullet or perhaps a better way to say it is where does modern start? For the the extreme BP purist (and yes I am using a large brush) it is a flintlock and a patched round ball and...
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    Idaho F&G wants your input, considering new muzzleloader rules

    First I would like to point out that I don't own an Inline and so have no horse in that particular race. Sabots, in basic terms every round ball shooter is using one, so if you are trying to get them restricted from the hunting field make sure your legislation is clear. A properly set up...
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    Found Powder Flask

    Whatever you do if it is an "OLD" Flask, don't clean it. Collectors/decorators love anything with a natural patina, even if "WE" think it's dirty and grubby. I sold an brass/leather flask, that may have been from 1860 or so, I thought it was a good reproduction that had been poorly taken care...
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    Suitable Bullet lube for Triple 7

    Good to know, being able to use regular smokeless lubes. As far as where I live in MB, I am about as far east and south as one can get and still be in the province closest town is Piney. Hadn't thought of Brandon, which is a fair jog for me, but I do usually get out for the Brandon show...
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