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    Barrel length

    I have 2 barrel lengths I like, and both guns serve me well. My Early English Trade Gun .62 has a 39 in barrel, perfect for still hunting with PRB or shot. Not too long of a barrel that it gets hung up walking through the woods. Deer, rabbit, and squirrel. The other is an English straight stock...
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    Range/Practice vs. Hunting Loads

    I target shoot( paper and trail walk) with the same load as I hunt with. I see no point in changing anything. I shoot at 2 or 3 different clubs monthly and I'm usually in the top 3... So WHY should I increase my powder charge to hunt, that changes everything, especially point of impact...I know...
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    38" Barrel?

    I have a 39 in on my Early English Trade gun from North Star West....Its great to handle in hunting situations, with shot or PRB, and I use it sometimes while Ranger/Trekking reenactments...also great in the woods and brush...its a .62/20..
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    roundball in smoothe.

    I use .57's when I roll live paper cartridges for .62...accuracy is pretty good out to 40/50 yrds.
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    Yearly powder usage

    Between monthly shoots at a couple of clubs and reenacting, I use prolly 5-7 lbs a year if I had to guess. It's sometimes hard to tell do to replacing used powder with new powder won at the shoots.
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    Can U decide on only one gun?

    .58 Smooth rifle....enough for big game with a PRB and plenty for anything hunted with shot....love mine!
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    Hydrogen Peroxide bore cleaning

    I use a straight HP and rubbing alcohol mix every cleaning, haven't seen any damage or problems, the HP cuts the fouling like nothing I've used, but never used a HP and baking soda mix...
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    Picking Vent Hole?

    Don't remember the last time I picked my vent while shooting, and I shoot 2/3 weekends a month.... Ranger
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    How do you Carry Lube?

    Yeah, I was talking about spit patches, that's all I've used for years and it's never failed me....
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    How do you Carry Lube?

    In my mouth....lol :rotf:
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    Help needed on a small camp

    I second or third the wedge and small fly....easy to set up for one person, and all the privacy, and protection you need... I currently use a 9x9x6 troopers wedge, and an 12x12 fly out front...
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    Roundball Caliber

    I like the .58... Have won many a shoot with 65 grains of 3f and a patched .562 roundball...spit patched with pillow ticking
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    Rice Smooth Barrel 20g ball size

    Keep the .585s...I use newsprint and .575/.585 roundball to make military style paper cartridges. I used 90 grains of 2f, bite and prime with it also, then shove ball and paper down....accuracy is reasonable out to 50/60 yards...
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    Small pouch and Day Horn

    Check out Darrel Lang....Leather from the past....he does a great job, and prices are very resonable
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    anyone have a .50 smootbore?

    I have a .58 and love it...it's a straight stocked English fowler, 44 inch bbl....real light, with a tapered fore stock, fast swinging.
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    Northstar west?

    This is a shame, but understandable....I have their Early English Trade Gun....built from a kit in the early 2000's and I love it, Broke the main spring a few years ago, made a phone call and had 2 at my door within a week....Matt is a great business man!
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    Prize Table Ideas

    Hey Sgt, What are the dates for this year? I've been invited, and have wanted to come for years now, but being a teacher, with only 3 days off per school year, it's kinda hard to go far for just a weekend...
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    Prize Table Ideas

    We did do something like that for the September shoot, the blanket prizes had to be homemade food stuffs, canned, or fresh from the garden or hunt. We had guys and ladies bringing canned goods, fresh baked pies, bread, cookies, fresh, but frozen wild game, rabbits, deer, bear etc. it was a great...
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    Prize Table Ideas

    Every other month at my club is a blanket shoot. The prizes run the gamut between modern knives and equipment to hand made stuff. Like the other have said, consumables, are always good, but a good bottle of something, i.e. Rum, whiskey, homemade wine, is always a favorite.
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    cal. 45 - fffg or ffg ???

    3f in all my rifles, .45,50,54, and 2f in my smoothies, .58, .62 and .66... Works great for me and my needs. All are flinters by the way.
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