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  1. J

    Jaeger Rifle 2

    Didn't say it wasn't,just pointing an article out for anyone interested.
  2. J

    Jaeger Rifle 2

    It was patterned after rifles of the Brandenburg School.George Shumway had an article about this school in the March 1991 Muzzle Blasts.Tom built this rifle around 1980-82 before there was much interests in Jaegers. A few more pics-
  3. J

    Jaeger Rifle 2

    Indeed it is.Has a 33rd Division emblem painted on the front.
  4. J

    Jaeger Rifle 2

    Saw the other post on a Jaeger,had mine out for a winter cleaning and oiling it's been in the closet a long time.Pardon the dust and not very good pictures.It's .62 caliber and was built by a fellow in Danville,Illinois named Tom VerHoeven who passed a few years ago.
  5. J

    Colt Screwdriver

    E-bay buy it now $6.59 all you want.Rusty used ones slightly higher.
  6. J

    Illinois ML Season

    I have heard it mentioned increased bag limits on deer in Illinois has less to do with game management and more to do with number of insurance claims paid out for car/deer collisions by politically connected insurance companies.That's just heresay you understand but this is the Land of...
  7. J

    Illinois ML Season

    I think you're right about the blue tongue and the drought.I'm in Edgar County and there was talk of a lot of dead deer in Coles.It'll be interesting to see the county totals compared to last year.This second season is gonna be rough,supposed to be about 6 degrees tomorrow morning.Don't hunt...
  8. J

    Illinois ML Season

    May be a little harder to fill a tag this year.First season reports show the deer harvest is way down over last year.I wonder if the drought last year has effected the deer population more than thought. "The preliminary harvest total of 55,708 for the first three days of the 2013 firearm...
  9. J

    coming lead shortage

    From a fellow shooter in Missouri- Doe Run's mining operation & smelter emissions for the last thirty or so years were cleaner than were required under federal & state eco regulations............ the problem is that until then, for decades, they operated with no scrubber technology on their...
  10. J

    coming lead shortage

    That article is slightly misleading.The Doe Run smelter operation is a refining smelter,they turn raw ore into refined lead.There are approximately,at last count,about 16 recycling smelters operating in the U.S.that said,I still hoard lead.The writings on the wall,backdoor gun control,no...
  11. J

    bowie knives

    Page from the 1884 Russell catalog-
  12. J

    "Original" axe...

    The advantage of using a steel bit in a wrought body was that it conserved what was,at the time,a scarce and costly imported commodity.It was a matter of cost as much as anything.The poll headed axe was an American development,it started appearing about 1750 maybe as early as 1740 depending on...
  13. J

    felling axs

    Axe heads recovered from the British sloop Industry wrecked in 1764- http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/IndustryFind/IndustryFboxes.shtml http://www.staugustinelighthouse.org/LAMP/Research/british_ship
  14. J

    Reference book on post 1900 to current ML?

    There's this book for 1959 and up for factory produced guns- http://www.amazon.com/Edition-Blue-Modern-Black-Powder/dp/19... There are some others by Dennis Adler on reproduction arms also.You're not going to find many books on custom builders or much of anything on factory guns earlier than 1959.
  15. J

    Material Source

    Here's one for hemp twine- http://www.turkeyfootllc.com/Hemproducts.html Google search there are a lot of sources.Hobby Lobby and the hobby sections in Wal-Mart and similar stores have it too usually.
  16. J

    Old Pyrodex

    Wasn't there an article in Muzzleloader some time back about age and Pyrodex where they chronographed loads using fresh and old powder?I found a can hidden away awhile back that was a round cardboard can,opened it up and there were chunks inside,fertilizer material.
  17. J

    Livingstone in East Africa 1871

    On that list were also a quantity of trade type goods,2 Frasilahs Cowries(1 frasilah=35 pounds) and 500 neck beads.The gun flints may have been a trade goods item.
  18. J

    New find outside Charleston SC

    Thanks for posting that link to the FB page.Lots of interesting pictures. :thumbsup:
  19. J

    Livingstone in East Africa 1871

    You have to keep in mind that Livingstone left England in 1866 on the expedition that found him in Africa in 1871.Some references mention him carrying a 6 shot revolver and a double rifle at different periods.His 1871 diary mentions ordering caps and flints from Zanzibar-...
  20. J

    anti-seize lubes

    Yep,we bought it by the case at work.Takes a lot of it working on D8 dozers and 621 Scrapers.Buy the high temp stuff.
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