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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Wish there was a big of chat on set triggers and installing them It’s sunny been shooting arrows all morning , got a Hoyt ionx bow USA 2016 ???? model Got a Robin Hood one too Yes my pet wood pigeon is no more , 4 days nothing but a previous crime scene
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Hot sunny day. London Something to do, on the verge of being an unmentionable But I thought might be interesting It’s a swiss target 1885 rifle but it’s been messed around with, good or bad, modern stock ,replaced with a heavy .5 barrel 1/37 twist sometime in the distant past, the barrel...
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    How old are ya?

    Me with the shawl dying got Colvid , but still here ha ha
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    How old are ya?

    Ok if you are under 90 you ain’t old , Can we see your faces too, no need to shave. I gather are English soldiers were not allowed to grow beards in flintlock times, mandatory to shave every 3 days. True or false ??? I just read it somewhere Yrs all me and a couple of years before ...
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    SxS cape Gun

    That is so nice. It seems the Swiss and Germans we more into set triggers than the British . I wonder why that is. However both of theses countries are very much into high quality products even today.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Well done, I have junk everywhere . Cannot find a thing sometimes , I have too much stuff in my little workshop and if it falls on the floor it stays there . Must have a clear up But my previous thick paper 577 sabots turned out great now the glue hardened ( 2 layers and silicon base. Bullet...
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    SxS cape Gun

    For me this is a fantastic string , love cape rifles
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    How old are ya?

    I have seen your photo ,!!!!!! definitely young and handsome. Lots of love from Joan and me.
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    How old are ya?

    Get off the string you ain’t even 80 yet and I bet still young and handsome This is me at 81 the wife 76 , I look old with my 577 ml big game rifle Let’s see your faces as Tommy 76 up in Maine said “ you look older than me”. It’s the Anglo Saxon chin that ruins my face God bless you all
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    SxS cape Gun

    I am quite taken by the German hammer shape you cape rifle is very nice. . So much so I bid on this ml German rifle “ “ SELLIER & CO., LEIPZIG, Holts March auction but alas I lost Should have put a higher bid in, even so it was higher than valuation, totally gutted. I had just paid out...
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    How old are ya?

    I already said I was born in the spring 22 mins past 2 am. 22 March 1943 I see we are not the only 81 year olds on this string , it’s just a number . My pet fox
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    SxS cape Gun

    Oh great , well fantastic, looks like Swiss or German as it seems to have a hump back lock , ( that’s like the close up of my hump back lock on my Swiss Feldstuter , ) I have two percussion cape rifles , but I cannot fire them in uk, no police permit , long story . A rusty one is being done...
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    Red Mapel

    This is the wrong string but it’s among builder lads. I mentioned etching steel using a battery charger. This early sample took around 30 mins to etch away you just need salt water , battery charger 12 v , a steel workpiece and and a steel bar And paint whet you don’t want the steel...
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    How old are ya?

    81 two weeks ago. Shotgun and pistol shooter most of life , just a collector now plus pcp air guns and arrows . We wish you well from London
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