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    Your Favorite (poll)

    This is my 54 calibre South Carolina that Mike finished for me this past summer. It wears a 46" Rice swamped barrel that Mike coned. It has a 14" LOP and fits me the best of all my firelocks. The single trigger is excellent. It shoots better than I can hold and likes the same load as does my...
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    Your Favorite (poll)

    OK I'm on a posting roll. This is my little 40 calibre North Carolina squirrel gunne. If you haven't figured it out by now both Mike and I have a weakness for southern gunnes. It also wears a 44" swamped Rice barrel, again coned. It has every bell and whistle on it that Mike could come up...
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    Your Favorite (poll)

    This was my first flintlock. A 54 calibre Virginia style made by Mike Miller of Paducah, KY. She is probably still my favorite. Got a 44" swamped Rice barrel that Mike coned. DST's. Very accurate. I've killed a bunch of deer with it. It loves 80 grs. FFFG Goex, bear oli patch and a home...
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    What characteristics do you like in a squirrel rifle?

    This picture was made during our Spring squirrel season last June. The upper squirrel is a young one. The bottom is just a normal size adult grey. This time of year they are really fat and sassy. Now our fox squirrels are some big squirrels and make the greys look small. About the only way...
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    Primitive Rear Sight Photos

    On page 198 of Grinslade's book on fowlers he states that 85% of the fowlers (Kentucky style)in this study had rear sights. I've used fowlers with and without a rear sight and much prefer one with a rear sight. Here is a picture of my Mike Miller made fowler with its nubbin of a back sight. It...
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    What characteristics do you like in a squirrel rifle?

    It has to be accurate enough to head shoot squirrels at 25 yards. A swamped barrel with coned muzzle, excellent DST's, good sights. An LOP that fits me. Good balance and not to heavy. Fourty calibre. And pretty. Tom Black Cantucky
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    Turkeys soon. Warm and fuzzy ???

    Ooops! In Kentucky turkey season comes in the 17th of April and not the 10th. Starting next year it will come in on the 2nd. Satrd. of April. Sorry. Tom Black Cantucky
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    Turkeys soon. Warm and fuzzy ???

    This past Tuesday morning I woke up with a mild case of turkey fever. I cleaned and waxed my fowler (as if it needed it) checked my flint for sharpness, made certain the jaws were tight around it. Cleaned up my calls, chalked the sound board on my old box call. Made sure everything in my shot...
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    How fancy for hunting?

    OK I screwed that up. Let's try again. Tom Black Cantucky
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    How fancy for hunting?

    Several years back I decided that life is simply to short to hunt with an ugly gunne. Tom Black Cantucky [IMG]http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv204/thomasmblack/001.jpg[/IMG
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    DeHass or Rice Barrel

    My three flintlocks each wear swamped Rice barrels. My most recent is a 54 calibre South Carolina with a 46" Rice barrel and a 14" LOP. It fits me like a glove. All three gunnes shoot better than I will ever be able to. All have their muzzles coned for ease of loading without a short...
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    Turkey Drawing

    Wess, I'm a Crittenden County boy. Email me about your art work please. Tom Black Cantucky
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    Turkey Drawing

    Opening day of season last April I called this old boy across Piney Creek-that was running bank full. I know they aren't supposed to cross things like that to come to your call but he did. He was 500 yards across Piney bottoms and if I'd had a string around his scrawny neck pulling him to me...
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    Turkey Drawing

    Wess that is a beautiful piece of work. The only thing better than turkey hunting with a flintlock fowler is eating a tom killed with a flintlock fowler. My good friend Mike Miller engraved this tom on my tender box-which I carry my wads in. Now that deer season is history I can't wait til...
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    Any 40cal shooters? Advice?

    My little 40 calibre North Carolina gunne was made by Mike Miller. It has a 44" Rice barrel that Mike coned. I shoot 35 grs. Swiss FFFG, a .395" ball dropped from a Lyman mold. A patch 0.020" thick soaked with pure bear oil and FFFG in the pan. When I do my part it will do evil things to...
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    antlers vs meat??

    In one of my books on deer hunting the author says there is no such thing as a meat hunter, just disgruntled trophy hunters. I've always liked that. I am neither a trophy hunter nor a meat hunter. I am a hunter and given the choice of a nice buck or a doe I'll shoot the buck every time. I...
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    Buck 2008.

    Last November 13th. I killed this 10 point buck with my 54 calibre Virginia rifle, again made by Mike Miller of Paducah, KY. Load was 80 grs. FFFG Goex, 0.020" patch lubed with bear oil, a home cast .530" ball and FFF in the pan. He field dressed 184 pounds and had a 21" spread. He was all of...
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    Buck 2009.

    I popped this fellow the second day of our ML season a week or so ago. I used my 54 calibre South Carolina rifle that Mike Miller made for me this past summer. Load was 80 grs. FFFG Goex, 0.530" cast ball, 0.020" patch lubed with straight bear oil and FFF in the pan. Shot was a long 20 yards...
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    Bushy Tail again

    Luie, The old tough ones go into the crock pot for about 1/2 day. Even an old fox squirrel comes out tender. Tom Black Cantucky
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    Bushy Tail again

    Gentlemen I thank you for your compliments. Mike Small made my horn. The upper is a young squirrel and the bottom is just normal size for one of our fat and sassy nut/corn fed greys. Tom Black Cantucky
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