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    John Browning Mountain Rifle

    With my own just 5 years of limited experience (summertime)with muzzle loading firearms, I appreciate everyone's advice here. Cheers!
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    A Squirrel rifle

    IIRC, Sgt Alvin York started his shooting career with a very long barreled rifle in 41 calibre.
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    A Squirrel rifle

    I guess going to a 45 is okay too. The added plus is this is the minimum for big game hunting in Alberta. But a BP rifle starting with a 3 is so sweet when paired to a slender rifle for small game/varmints close up.
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    A Squirrel rifle

    Just as yourself and Philip have stated, it seems that any slender barreled 36 is one elusive critter to locate. :hmm:
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    A Squirrel rifle

    Ok...
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    A Squirrel rifle

    Some day another muzzleloading rifle will grace my gun cabinet. Lots of head scratching here, but I think a Zouave 58 would take a back seat to a slender, wood stock to the muzzle 36 caliber rifle for small game hunting. Anyone with a similar rifle like to state their opinion or reflect on their...
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    John Browning Mountain Rifle

    With this same combination as your's I had decent results (just twice at 50 yards and once at 100 yards from a bench) The best 'grouping' I could manage at 100 was an 8-9 inch 3 shot 'group' with the original factory buckhorn rear sight and merely placing the top edge of the front blade even...
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    Manhattan 36

    Yeah. You are about 50% right and otherwise. As one example I do have a wedge for an 1849 Colt. But although it's technically the same frame size as the Pocket Navy (Manhattan is kind of a copy of it) This wedge does not even come close to fitting my Manhattan sir. Cheers!
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    Manhattan 36

    I have a 36 caliber 5 shot Manhattan Series III revolver with a 5 inch barrel. Mostly it appears original except it appears to have two different styles of nipples/cones. I was wondering if original Colt parts can be substituted, either from the 1851 or the Pocket Navy? curious....
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    John Browning Mountain Rifle

    Thanks Fred! I appreciate your input here too. have a good day...
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    John Browning Mountain Rifle

    That is a very interesting tidbit sir! Thank You.....it's nice to know I'm on the right road indeed. :)
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    John Browning Mountain Rifle

    I had some grief with this one initially. Broken mainspring during hunting season, short back & forth with L&R settled that just fine. Couldn't really get it to shoot even half good. Heard an internet rumor that .023 thou patches are the manufacturers recommendation. Made do with .018 thou and...
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    Buckshot loads?

    In some of my meager experiments with my replica blunderbuss, I too felt that one was really up against it when trying to get anything resembling a pattern at anything better than point blank range. As a very mild comparison, more modern and open choked riot guns are equally perplexing with bird...
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    Flintlock Black Bear

    Pretty darn cool friend. Reads like a Walter Cline book on the subject: Muzzleloading Rifles Then & Now, Chapter 10, Hunting in the Great Smokies! (Okay, maybe Hunting in the Missouri Breaks for your story) Cheers........
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    12 ga. double barrel pistol

    It's not 12 gauge, but it is .65 calibre. Antique percussion howdah pistol made by A. Schmalz in Saxony circa 1840s. These double barrelled pistols are quite something else to own White Rabbit! I purposely did not mention it previously because this neat old antique gets babied more than actually...
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