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  1. longshot47

    Your best deal acquiring a muzzleloader, either trade or purchase

    A few years back my partner and I were doing some work at an old stone mill house. The property was owned/occupied by an aged couple who both had accomplished careers in ballet. They traveled, lived, danced and taught all over the globe. The home required much work and time so we became well...
  2. longshot47

    Upset with UPS

    Fed-Ex is an abomination around here, I have a private lane leading to my home and have experienced everything from having a portable compressor tossed and left in a snowbank [the lane was clear], to a driver driving his 28' box truck off the road into the drainage. I saw him taking apart one...
  3. longshot47

    Scrimshaw Ink

    A variant to the krylon/steel wool that has worked pretty well for me is water-based, clear hair spray which, while protecting your drawn image from handling smears and minimizing even water-based ink overrun, wipes off easily with a wet cloth without loss of detail.
  4. longshot47

    How about a branch for a hawk block?

    Makes me want to throw my hawk. With the effort you've got in it, it might be worth banding it with a barrel hoop or perhaps screwing a plywood panel to the back. Nice job!
  5. longshot47

    Anybody bored with winter?

    Not so boring yesterday. A nor'easter dropped 14" of wet, driven snow, which took out power, phone and cable for many. That all gets relegated to memory but the damage to all manner of trees and evergreen shrubbery is, more or less, permanent change. I've got a long lane through a wooded...
  6. longshot47

    Hello from NJ

    Welcome back! :hatsoff:
  7. longshot47

    The bucks are getting careless here...

    In these parts the bucks are 'playing their reindeer games' in a particularly bold manner this season. Rarely see see horns around the barns or on the lawn areas, but for the past three weeks or so bucks could be seen stalking does and sparing at just about any time, and in any direction...
  8. longshot47

    Powder horn repair

    Same thing happened to me while making my first horn, many moons ago. The hole came thru neatly, without tear-out, and was angled to the horn surface so it had a sufficient shoulder to hold a plug. I inserted the shank of a heavy nail [don't recall if I used glue] cut it off and filed flush...
  9. longshot47

    What's your favorite sharpening stone?

    I've got and have used most everything from 60 micron synthetic to surgical black Arkansas and at this point most frequently go to diamond stones. They remain flat and run on water. Convenience.
  10. longshot47

    Ol' Jeremiah

    Another 'Johnson' info-bite...... Where was he born? Well, I've got a local newspaper article tacked to the wall, out in the shop, that claims he was born in Little York, NJ, very near the Hunterdon/Warren county border. Howse 'at?
  11. longshot47

    Muzzleloader Shop Funny Slogan

    'Fire when ready'
  12. longshot47

    Copy of a Lovely Chambers Rifle

    It don't get much better!!
  13. longshot47

    Antique on powder horn

    Rethink: The shell is on the inside/husk on outside. Correction:
  14. longshot47

    Antique on powder horn

    If your horn is pretty light, get you some walnuts as they fall. Remove the shell and, wearing rubber gloves, cut away the husk in sections [should be green on the outside and strong yellow inside]. Rub the moist inner fiber over your not-too-polished horn, and let dry. Rub out or repeat until...
  15. longshot47

    Knife sharpening

    I'm the guy in the chair across from Tenngun. I've used just about all of the devices mentioned, and about a half dozen less common. My preference at this point is a DMT fine diamond stone. I have a few and find them to be a practical, no-fuss, means to a quick, serviceable edge. They do...
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