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    patch thickness

    thanks for the responses. i dont have any of the original patches left but they were def. lighter/thinner then the .015 ones. all patches were lubed with hoppes but the loads are still down in the 70/80gr level (working up from the least as recomm.). the barrel was swabbed every 2-3 shots. the...
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    patch thickness

    i recently inherited a older TC hawken .50 cal that ive finally gotten cleaned up and shooting well. i started with the old leftover patches that came with the bag (light pillow case type wgt.) and they loaded well with moderate pressure needed and i even recovered a few "shot" patches and they...
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    The Frontiersman

    where had you read that the story was "fanciful"? i did find it odd when i read the passage, such an important and unusual piece of history that went un-footnoted is very un-eckert-like. i do enjoy his work but also believe mistakes or flights of fancy are possible........actually he is usually...
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    Frontier Rangers--Who were they?

    dark and bloody river (eckert) has quite a bit about the forming of "bradys rangers" and many of their activities. wilderness empire (eckert) has much of the same info concerning the slightly more famous "rogers rangers". as ive mentioned in other posts about eckerts books the difficulty of...
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    probably should have asked first.

    like others mentioned all of eckerts books are good. frontiersmen is centered on kenton but has many, many supporting characters that get fleshed out to one degree or another. ive read most of his books but like to take a break between each one since they require some serious "work" to read each...
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    cleaning questions

    thanks to everyone for your help. greatly appreciated.
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    cleaning questions

    two quick questions for the knowledgable. i recently inherited an older TC hawken 50cal. from my father in law. bought and used (a little) in the mid 80s and then stored since then. after a good cleaning i noticed the bore has a few tiny rust spots in it....nothing major, but still a few spots...
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    Stephen E Ambrose

    good book, easy/light read with good info. ambrose gets credit for being into and knowledgeable about lewis and clark long before it became fashionable.
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