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  1. will5a1

    Ithaca Hawken??

    Go buy a lottery ticket while you've got the good luck. I think you mean a "Uberti", if it is a rifle, a search here will produce some excellent info from Phil Meek on both rifles. Edit to add Phil's excellent info, hope the link works: http://grrw.org/uberti-santa-fe-hawken/
  2. will5a1

    When Was This Rifle Made, And By Whom?

    Have you had the barrel out of the stock?
  3. will5a1

    Navy Arms “Hawken Hunter” .58 Cal

    I bought one a few years back and it is my regular deer rifle, my hunting load is a 130 grains of 2F under a PRB with a wonderwad over the powder, it is more accurate with heavier charges but my shoulder can only stand so much. I switched the nipple over to a 11 (cheaper, easier to get caps)...
  4. will5a1

    An Ultra High question.

    Be exceptionally careful - I recall some of the Ultra High's had two piece barrels and were considered unsafe to shoot, the old Buckskin Report detailed at least one that failed, and had pictures of the sectioned barrel. I think, but am not certain, the early production rifles were the ones with...
  5. will5a1

    SOLD Thompson-Center .56 SB Renegade

    Jim - Thanks much. Zonie, please mark as sold, thanks.
  6. will5a1

    SOLD Thompson-Center .56 SB Renegade

    I just checked it, 1" across the flats.
  7. will5a1

    SOLD Thompson-Center .56 SB Renegade

    A nice T-C .56 caliber smooth bore, has the steel buttplate and furniture, the rear of the front sight is painted red, lock and set triggers function correctly, dropping a bore light down the barrel the bore looks clean, overall the metal and wood I'd rate at least 90%. $275.00 and buyer pays...
  8. will5a1

    SOLD 1853 Enfield

    A 3 band, either Euroarms or Armisport (can't recall, I have to dig it out of the safe). Has a clean bore, nice metal as I recall, but the previous owner put his reennact. unit on the buttstock. I think I have a bayonet for it. Maybe a sling and accourtements. If you are interested PM me your...
  9. will5a1

    Confused about rifled barrels & Minnie Balls

    Everything I've read indicates the M1861 Springfiled had a ROT of 1-78, and I think the M1863 did also, can't speak to the Enfields. I'd measure my original M1861 but I'm too lazy to dig it out of the back of the safe.
  10. will5a1

    Deer Hunting

    Dutch - regarding the passenger pigeon, the last one was named "Martha", she died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, I think, and was stuffed and now resides at the Smithsonian. There are several other preserved examples, I think the Ohio Historical Society has one as does a university in IL.
  11. will5a1

    Backwoodsman Magazine Question.

    oh how I miss the Buckskin Report! And how, I used to read it cover to cover and always looked forward to the next edition, I still pull old copies out now and then, I always got such a kick out of Honest Don's tales, John Baird must have also for all the heartburn some of those stories caused...
  12. will5a1

    Backwoodsman Magazine Question.

    Backwoodsman, while not as polished, is a great magazine and I look forward to every issue. Before Charlie Richie Sr. started publishing his own magazine, way back in the 70's, he wrote for another mag, long discontinued, published out of Big Timber, MT, that focused on muzzleloading topics...
  13. will5a1

    Price of powder in 18th century

    Thanks Tac, that was helpful, especially defining guinea.
  14. will5a1

    Shooting a drone w/ muzzleloader?

    Why in the world would I shoot at male bees?
  15. will5a1

    Bear Greese for lube

    Col - the only thing I would add to MD's reply is that bear grease/oil does makes the best lube, and the best pie crust, or so I've been told by my older betters; and from experience deer tallow isn't worth the hassle, but the very best lube, now unobtainable, at least legally, is sperm whale...
  16. will5a1

    Bear Greese for lube

    You do, or at least mine does. Stored in pint and quart mason jars it seperates over time, I pour off the oil into another jar, leaving the white very soft grease which will melt when warmed. I store the jars in the basement, and have not yet had any go rancid.
  17. will5a1

    Improved hooked breech accuracy.

    "PS, I also shoot a rifle made by a gentleman from Shelbyville Indiana, whose name escapes me at the moment. He passed away I recall during the big 1978 blizzard from a heart attack. Blast it! Can anyone reading this provide his name? In any case, his rifle has a similar patent breech...
  18. will5a1

    #11 percussion caps versus musket caps.

    I've used them in the past without problems, they are much easier to grasp and hold with cold fingers and they do contain more priming compound than a 10 or 11. TOW sells the nipples in 6-.75mm and 1/4X28 thread with the musket cone so you can, for example, convert your Lyman GPR to use the...
  19. will5a1

    9 year old with a smile~!

    Good for you - planting the seed in the boy's and dad's mind, wish I was there to see it.
  20. will5a1

    First muzzleloader deer

    Well done, and thanks for sharing - that is a nice doe.
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