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    Can any make out this name?

    I don't see that first letter of the last name as a P. To me it looks like either an F or maybe a T.
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    Turkey Calls

    Question; to make a turkey wing bone call - can you use bones that have been cooked?
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    So I got this 2 muskets at the auction for cheap

    I have. Not common, and mainly a custom made item. I, too, am a lefty. I had originally thought of having my chunkgun made with a cheek piece on each side, but in the end I opted for no cheek piece at all.
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    2024 Turkey Hunting

    Finally! Last evening there were 18 turkeys, including two toms in my back yard. The first turkeys I've seen this year. Spring turkey season opens here on April 13th.
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    Home defense black powder shotgunhome defense black powder shotgun

    Well, I was in law enforcement for nearly 30 years. I was a handgun and shotgun instructor for about half that time. I've been retired for 25 years now, so what I have to say may or may not be outdated. Back in the 1980's we did a lot of testing of various shotgun loads. 12 gauge only. Our...
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    Homemade cleaning Patches

    I mainly use my old, worn-out T-shirts. Sometimes an old flannel shirt. Some of my wife's old blouses and dresses work too. All easy to come by, and I have a pile of it. Cut it into strips or squares appropriate for caliber. Lighter colors show the dirt better, but color really doesn't...
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    2024 Turkey Hunting

    Spring turkey opens here April 13th and runs through May. But so far, I have not seen nor heard a bird.
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    Revolutionary War

    Yep. Definitely NOT Revolution era. All the guns of that time were flintlocks. Your rifle is caplock (percussion) that didn't appear until the 1830's, and didn't become common until the 1840's. I see a name, or something engraved on the lock plate, but I cannot make it out. We need good...
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    Mojo8672

    I call it a "loading block" or a "bullet board" I make my own.
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    South African Muzzleloading

    A fascinating thread. Thank you all for sharing. My wife's grandfather's brother is said to have had a falling out with the family. As a young man, back around the time of WWI he departed for Africa, and nothing was ever heard of him again. I've always been curious about what became of him.
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    Wm Turvey Rifle

    As the others have questioned - "breech loader" - how? You sure it's a rifle. To my eye it has the lines of a smoothbore. Very nice looking gun, though.
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    N.Carolina or S.Carolina?

    For those who don't know. NEK = Northeast Kingdom, a sparsely populated area in the northeast corner of Vermont.
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    Flintlock muzzleloaders will rule again

    I hear that cats make good chili.
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    Flintlock muzzleloaders will rule again

    Some years ago, I read that if a large enough EMP bomb was set off over Kansas it could knock out the entire electrical grid over all the US. The essay further proposed that if the electric was out for one year that somewhere between 70% to 90% of the population would be dead within that year...
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    Black powder shooting clubs/reenactments in the Tennessee area?

    Please, do let me know. I have heard there is a gun club there in McMinn Co., but I know nothing about it. Etowah is practically just up the road from me. Easily doable.
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    G. Goulcher Gun - Trying to get info. and approx. value

    Goulcher made locks and shipped them out by the barrel full for gunsmiths to use. I don't think the Goulchers actually made any guns. This piece looks mid-1800's to me. And I'm thinking that barrel has had several inches cut off the muzzle end. Is there any sign that might indicate a barrel...
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    Gunners Mate Drinkwater reporting aboard, Sir.

    Welcome. QM-3, destroyer man here. The "Galloping Greyhounds".
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