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  1. David Veale

    Introduction

    whereabouts in michigan are you? I'm in SW michigan (Three Rivers). Would be happy to walk you through the basics.
  2. David Veale

    Get your deer tested

    Friend of mine saw a facebook ad the other day (this was in a group devoted to canning food), saying "Do you know someone who it *too prepared*? Help facebook fight extremism" with a link to click on. Blows my mind that this kind of nonsense is being pushed.
  3. David Veale

    Red Mapel

    I think this may be a case of "common" names not being particularly accurate. As I understand it, there are two "hard maple" species in the US -- sugar and black maple (acer saccharum and acer nigrum, respectively). Those are the only two I would consider using for a stock. The red maple...
  4. David Veale

    Skychief question

    Wow -- looks like I need to give the skychief another try. I didn't have much luck the last time around, but perhaps very small differences in my wadding had a negative effect. I have noticed improvement with cornmeal buffering, but my patterns with a straight cylinder bore (at 30 yds...
  5. David Veale

    Skychief question

    Please tell me this was a choked gun, or I'm going to have to hang my head in shame and never post a photo of one of *my* 25yd patters!
  6. David Veale

    WANTED All the lead seems to have disappeared :(

    Check out facebook marketplace. At least in my area (SW Michigan), I regularly see posts from people selling scrap lead (typically 1.50-2.00/lb).
  7. David Veale

    New from Michigan

    Welcome from SW Michigan (Three Rivers)!
  8. David Veale

    Ya' never know what's up there.

    I wouldn't worry too much about them. Loads of coyotes here in SW michigan. Even found a fresh kill on my farm (a yearling they'd taken down -- the whole show was recorded in the snow, spurting blood and all). Despite their high population, our deer population is exploding and the state is...
  9. David Veale

    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    I would agree that pass through is not necessary, but it definitely helps with establishment of a blood trail and recovery -- particularly when shooting from a tree stand where the exit wound would be lower and be the first to bleed.
  10. David Veale

    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    Curious what the string/thong tied around your rifle is for?
  11. David Veale

    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    The latest issue of Muzzle Blasts had a test of different calibers, including a .45 roundball with 80gr of FFF behind it. I've always hunted with 60gr (Goex) behind my patched .440, and thought it was a little lacking when the roundball ends up just inside or against the skin on the far side of...
  12. David Veale

    Newbie

    Welcome from Three Rivers, MI!
  13. David Veale

    Fears Deadly Deer Disease Could Infect Humans

    So do the republicans. Plenty of them are WEFers too, like Texas gov Abbott. Dems and Republicans are simply the two wings of the same beast imho. Presenting one as the villian -- and then changing that every few years -- is what keeps people stupidly supporting the beast. Remember GWB and...
  14. David Veale

    Fears Deadly Deer Disease Could Infect Humans

    Makes me wonder if they were setting up a way to deny the fact that the vax is producing folded proteins which very much resemble prions. Luc Montagnier (the guy who first identified HIV) was looking into this when he died. A number of people have already developed Creuzfeld-Jakobs (i.e. mad...
  15. David Veale

    Flintlock muzzleloaders will rule again

    But if we're stocking up on ingredients... wouldn't it make just as much sense to stock up on those for unmentionables? Anyone here made blackpowder *from scratch* -- as in making your own potassium nitrate from wood-ash and urine?
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