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    Skychief question

    A 90 year old friend used to tape clear glass microscope slides over the sensors of his chronograph when shooting black powder. He also tested penetration on steel tin cans out to projected hunting range. That Garmin Xero C1 - what is the price?
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    Skychief question

    Tow is waste from making flax linen thread and used for tinder nests in fire starting. Any problem with smoldering tow when loaded over powder and potential fire danger in the dry woods or plains?
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    Skychief question

    Good info here. Urge you study pin on by Zonie. I have most all the cards and wads for 12 gauge. We should get out to the range to pattern and test a cylinder bored shotgun. I'd use 2F Goex or Schuetzen in it. Old blueprint paper or 4 foot square cardboard tacked to patterning board at...
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    Rehardening frizzens - one size fits all? Musings for metallurgy masterminds....

    Either Fred Stutzenburger or the Bevel Brothers in Muzzle Blasts highly recommends never using the depleted uranium frizzen material. Hazardous to breathe particulate matter or come in contact with people on the firing line as well as yourself. Used it once in the 70's and still have a full...
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    Cleaning jag getting stuck

    May we assume that the TC Renegade is used from a previous owner? Good advice to here. My patches did not getstuck when lubed or wet but final drying would get stuck unless I switched to a smaller diameter jag. Always used boiling water for major clean and pre soak with some drops of Dawn in...
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    RWS CAPS-1075 PLUS

    Used them since 1974 on rifles and revolvers. Only one misfire from an old tin gotten at a shoot. Preferred over CCI, Remington or Winchester.
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    A first attempt at a Gourd Canteen

    Lagenaria siceraria is genus and species for a Corsican canteen gourd; cucurbits pepo; gourds were the earliest known domesticated plant. I prefer flat round canteen gourds for canteens. Alfred Jacob Miller has painting of bottle neck gourd canteen but have found no primary sources for the...
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    How I Stripe my Ram Rods. A how-to video.

    A striped ramrod is easier to find on the forest floor if you for some reason put it there. I used to soak my hickory rods in kerosene or coal oil for buggy whip flexibility but it would not take on stain and burned bad when using a torch. Painter's masking tape spiraled in the same rate of...
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    The Tenuous Future of Living History

    I teach fourth graders and adults Colorado and Bent's Fort history. It was an economic, cultural and geographic cross roads on the Santa Fe Trail. Many cultures were represented and discussed and portrayed at the historic park site. Mulatto James Beckwourth (Beckwith), Charlotte Green the...
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    The Tenuous Future of Living History

    Lot of changes there since I first visited in late '80's and not for the better. Have taught and volunteered at Fort William on the Arkansas (Bent's Old Fort) near La Junta. Jake Koch, a current director will give a lecture on The Dissolution of Bent's Old Fort - 175 years later at Fort...
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    Hawk New England Fowler

    By the way, exquisite, beautiful job. Quite inspiring s usual.
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    Hawk New England Fowler

    Will look forward to your maple stocked rifle with English fowler style stock. Have parts to work on a John Newcomer style rifle but in flintlock instead of percussion and fancy curly maple from Freddie Harrison, 48" long Getz swamped barrel in .60 caliber and iron, not brass fowler furniture...
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    Question Regarding Woman Rondy Attire

    Fort des Chartre events tries really hard at promoting authenticity and good research. Eliza Spaulding and Narcissa Whitman were missionary wives at an actual Rocky Mountain rendezvous and dressed prim and proper for the fashion of the time. Rest were Native American women. Big difference...
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    weight of trigger pull on a Kibler Woodsrunner

    Also changed FLINTERS to flinders. Computers suck.
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    weight of trigger pull on a Kibler Woodsrunner

    I've never had a deer, elk or bear or pronghorn spook while setting a rear set trigger or cocking the cock back on my flinders. Hunting 50 plus years with game meat to prove for it. If you are stationary and stable in a ground blind or tree stand you can put a frizzen cover on the frizzen and...
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