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    New in Arizona

    Glad you made it. Greg, in the O.V.
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    Hello group, from the wet side of Washington State!

    I'm an AZ transplant from SW WA
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    Newbie here

    Good info. Thank you. The T/A is in very good condition and I wouldn’t be afraid to fire it.
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    Hello group, from the wet side of Washington State!

    I lived on the “wet side” for 35 yrs before moving to a brown desert. I sure do miss the green.
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    Newbie here

    Yeah. I wish I had a bore-scope to run the length of it. I found cookies jammed in the barrel of my dad’s 1917 Enfield 30-06 years ago. He blamed it on me!
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    Newbie here

    Here’s a shot of the 3rd cleaning patch I ran through the Miroku (so I’m told). Running the brush through it produced a significant amount of powder. I’m ignorant of BP everything. Fired one 38 yrs ago. What is a “percussion” as opposed to flintlock? I ran a rod & brush down the barrel and...
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    Newbie here

    So, the Thompson Arms is a .50 cal with serial #127011 and in pretty darn good condition. Looking at posts through the internet has people asking about rifles with numbers much higher than mine: 244xxx, 5xxxxx, 66xxxx. No one can pin down a reasoning of the s/n. Several posts mention...
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    Newbie here

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    Newbie here

    Hello. I inherited two black powder rifles from my late uncle. One is Japanese made, likely from the Korea war timeframe. The other is a “newer” Thompson Arms model. The Japanese 45 caliber rifle has a cracked through the barrel, and will never be fired again. The Thompson, I have yet to inspect.
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    Muzzleloader made in Japan

    I, too inherited a Japanese .45 cal black powered from my uncle who was in Japan during the Korean War. It had been locked in a safe for decades I just finished a considerable amount of time, cleaning it up and noticed a crack through the barrel at the breach end. Suffice to say this will never...
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