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    Milkweed

    How many people gather milkweed pods, and use them as wind drifters, to show how the wind is blowing, raising, and falling. A few years ago, someone had a commercial product that was sold as a wind floater/detector. It looked like Milkweed without the seeds. So....I gathered a few in a coffee...
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    Fox squirrels

    Been seeing some nice Fox squirrels, lately. I grew up in the mountains of West Va. and loved to squirrel hunt. My grandmother, would have to boil them old Fox squirrels, before frying, because they were tougher, than gray squirrels. Haven't hunted them for many years, now. Just...
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    Jim Kibler Rifles

    A friend of mine, just went to the Post Office and picked up his Jim Kibler rifle. Fist impression, it was crated in a nice plywood box. Second, the wood was very nice and the inletting was near perfect. Some tiny fitting will be required. It is a .40 Flintlock witha Rice barrel and I'm...
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    Southern Mountain Rifle

    Bought a 40 Cal. SMR , from a retired gun builder. The rifle was built in 2005, but was never sold. GM barrel, Siler Mountain Lock, Davis Triggers. Build from a blank piece of wood.
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    Dixon's Gun Fair

    I'm headed to the Fair. Just wondering if there are other places to look for Traditional guns besides there. I'll be coming from Virginia, up I81 to Harrisburg, then over to Dixon's. Anyone no if Tip Curtis, will be there?
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    Smoothbore Surprise

    Our club has a BP shoot, once a month. I usually shoot my flintlock rifle, as do most of the shooters. However, we do have a few cap lock guys, and that's okay, we want to keep up good attendance and keep the interest going. A couple weeks ago, I decided to throw a little surprise on them, and...
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    J&S Style Hawken Kit

    The only rifle that I have worked with, as far as finishing, was a Tip Curtis rifle in the white. So, I would like to find a kit where most of the inletting work is done. I know Don Stith kits a copy of the real Hawken, but I'm not sure at what stage it is, as far as being completed. Does anyone...
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    Plague of the Dragoon

    Each time that I went to local Sportsman's Warehouse, there in the back corner of the store, hung a rack of Traditions BP pistols and two lonely Uberti's. One was a Walker and the other a 2nd model Dragoon. I was hoping someone would buy them, and get rid of the temptation. But yesterday, the...
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    New Pistol?

    I turned a White Mountain Carbine into something.
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    New cleaning mixture

    Some of our clubs, shooting members, are using a mix of equal amounts of Murphy's oil soap, Olive oil, and Peroxide to clean their flintlock rifles. The claim is that it works so good and reduces the clean time. Anyone tried this mix? I bought the ingredients today, but have not tried it. Long...
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    Brown over top of bluing

    Has anyone tried browning a barrel, that still has bluing on it? During the browning process, on a percussion gun, what do you put in the nipple threads to protect them? I was thinking a brass or stainless screw might work.
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    Reloading in Field Conditions

    Can someone describe how to carry and prepare for quickly reloading when hunting. By not having any experience hunting with a smoothbore, I haven't went thru the process of thinking about carry the things that will let me be effective in a hunting situation.
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    My first smooth bore

    I picked up a 20 gauge Armi-Sport barrel at the flea market last year, but never got around to shooting it. With a tiny bit of work, it fit on my Renegade stock. Finally got all the stuff, needed to shoot, and took it for a test run yesterday. I never had time to shoot any real patterns, but...
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    Custom deer pistol

    Anyone, built or had someone build a large bore pistol, just for deer hunting? Virginia, has changed the law, as of last season, to include single shot pistols for deer hunting, as long as they meet the same requirements as the rifle. Which basically says, it must be loaded from the muzzle, 45...
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    New 20 gauge....turkey load needed

    I recently picked up an unfired 20 gauge barrel with jug choke, that fits my Renegade. I have never shot a smoothbore but I do shoot Flintlock and Cap lock rifles. I want to get started, with some Turkey loads. I have some over powder cards and fiber wads, that I ordered from Midway. What would...
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    Question about horn stopper

    I received a horn for Christmas, made by my son-in-laws brother. This was his first attempt at making a horn. The stopper is made from deer antler, and has little or no taper. Due to shrinking or the horn expanding, the stopper is loose in the horn. Is the horn and stopper, usually tapered...
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    Christmas bag and horn

    Horn and bag from son-in-law and his brother. First time his brother ever built a horn or scrimshawed.
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    Reloading in the Field, then and now

    I am interested to know how to reload in the field, when hunting. Premeasured containers or what? I am new to smoothbores, and I have never fired one. But, I ran upon an Armisport barrel, in 20 ga. and made it fit my, Renegade. Loads, tips, advice.........needed.
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    Black MZ

    There has been a lot of discussion about, Alliant's Black MZ, substitute powder, but I am having good luck, with this powder. My first success with this powder, was in my 32 cal. rifle. It was accurate and I could shot, shot-after-shot, and not have any problem with loading. Two days ago, I...
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    Armisport barrel find

    I was at a flea market yesterday, and there layed a new unfired barrel, marked Armisport Italy Cal..20. While others were convinced that it was a 50 cal. bored out, I noticed it clearly said cal.20, and then I noticed it had a bead front sight and no rear sight. It appeared to be the same size...
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