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  1. Stumpkiller

    Out for a walk today

    Took my smoothbore out for a walk today to poke around the woods and look for shed antlers. Just a nice day to be out. At one point I did find something, and although shed related it wasnt from a deer. It did make a good target of opportunity. So I propped it up, backed up 50 yards and let...
  2. Stumpkiller

    New Horn

    Just opened a box tonight and Rick Froehlich (Horner75) outdid himself in making me a day horn for hunting. I asked for a deer, grouse or bunny: something hunting related. Well he did a deer, grouse AND bunny! Holy Smokes, this is a much better horn than I am a photographer...
  3. Stumpkiller

    Fowler bag

    Swampy went and did me up just the sweetest bag to team up with my new fowler. 8"W x 6"T with a 1" gusset. Just right for a day of upland hunting. The strap attachment is copied from an original he had copied for himself and I thought that was a fine looking bag. Has a divider inside but...
  4. Stumpkiller

    New Brooks Fowling Piece

    I am the proud owner of Mike Brooks No. 308 - a walnut stocked fowling piece in 16 gauge with a 42" Colerain Griffin barrel and Chambers Early Virginia lock. I asked Mike to build light for grouse shooting and work an archery motif in but otherwise dealer's choice. Just shy of seven pounds...
  5. Stumpkiller

    Damascus Roach Belly Knife

    I just bought one of these from Track of the Wolf (I see Crazy Crow has the identical knife as well). When it arrived it was the rustiest knife I have ever seen - including some I have dug when metal detecting! I swear it came over from India on the deck of a ship. The knife was in a plastic...
  6. Stumpkiller

    Well, I'm dead (lost flint & steel)

    Just discovered, in wanting to start a fire last night, that my tinderbox with flint and steel is missing. Cannot find it in any of my bags or gear locations. Rats. Possibly left it beside a firepit or dropped it in the woods. Now I have to get a replacement for this - which I have carried...
  7. Stumpkiller

    General Altoid's Snuff Boxes

    I was burning the paint off a couple Altoids tins and the fumes got me in a silly frame of mind. Thinking where a hunter of the 1790's may have come up with similar items - the thought of a man who had served in the Revolution and had an opportunity to ransack a supply cart sending items from...
  8. Stumpkiller

    Redistribution of Blackpowder

    On August 6th I sent the following query to BATF. Today I received this reply. I was informed here after mentioning that I had requested info that I should have specified I would be collecting the cash ahead of time and thereby acting as an agent for the various final users. But the above...
  9. Stumpkiller

    What Fowls for Fowlers?

    I was reading Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts and the following passage brought a lightbulb . . . We forget that 230 years ago carrier passenger pigeons were common in gigantic flocks and that peppering a tree or flock would bring down several. In another passage of the same book...
  10. Stumpkiller

    Five in a tin

    Took Cherry for a walk in the woods today. Nothing too exciting - but it was a good session none the less. I pulled together some stumps and branches earlier this spring to make a new ground blind and today went back to clear some of the saplings in the area. This will be a bow and m/l blind...
  11. Stumpkiller

    Stumpy's Flintlock Movie

    Something I recorded last fall - two shots at gallon milk jugs starting with an unloaded flintlock from 50 and 85 yards bBZsbLUF4Wg
  12. Stumpkiller

    "Poof" goes the season.

    Against a tree, did Stumpy lean. The doe came close to see him. Up came his gun with cock pulled back. “Poof! ” goes the season. The charge was stale and nine days old. T’was winter and cold freezin’. T’was also the last day to muzzle load. “Poof! ” goes the season. Deer had been few and...
  13. Stumpkiller

    Round balls in jug choke

    Took my 12 bore T/C New Englander shotgun out for a walk yesterday and I stopped to top-off my powder flask. In digging out a funnel I came across a half dozen 0.690" cast balls I'd forgotten I had. For shots-and-giggles I dropped three in my pocket along with a small roll of lubed 0.018"...
  14. Stumpkiller

    NY goes bezerk with licenses

    In these depressed times it's good to know that NY consider's sportsman's wallets fat and happy. Big/Small Game license - up 53% Muzzleloading stamp - up 31% Fishing - up 31% All told my Super Sportsman's license & managament permit (antlerless) went from $68 last year to $98 this year - up...
  15. Stumpkiller

    2nd day doe

    Opening day was a "toad strangler" hereabouts and I sloshed home at noon after seeing nothing. Today was windy and variable (wind shifts of 90 to 180º - I hate that) and, after kicking one out in the morning and seeing only a glimpse of tail, I had this lady walk at me at 3:30PM. I was...
  16. Stumpkiller

    Bunny and/or Grouse Hunt in a Can

    No, not a canned hunt. :nono: Years ago I saw a small but very curved horn that had a half-circular ball bag that nestled in the curve for a very small "just a hunt" outfit. I wanted to apply the same concept to my 12 bore percussion shotgun. As Thoreau said: "Simplify, simplify." Here...
  17. Stumpkiller

    Cooperator?

    For the past five years I've been participating in a project with NYS game biologists for a ruffed grouse census and harvest survey. I have to log hours afield, grouse flushed & killed and some other data. As recognition this year my package came with a patch. . . . but "Cooperator?" Couldn't...
  18. Stumpkiller

    Original J.W. Hawksley flask

    I was looking for an adjustable shot measure at Track of the Wolf and my search pulled up this 7-1/2" beauty. An original J.W. Hawksley powder flask. It was only $15 more than the $49.99 reproductions they offer, which I'd been debating buying, so now it's home and going to be joining me on my...
  19. Stumpkiller

    Sun & fun with the snow bunnies

    It was a beautiful sunny day at Delirious Acres and once again Bald Mtn Man brought over Kate and Snoop to do the hard work in a bunny sweep. 12 ga New Englanders were the order of the day. BMM put the first fur on the board with a cooperative rabbit in what has become the beagle’s favorite...
  20. Stumpkiller

    January MuzzleBlasts Cover - C.Laubach

    Is that Christopher Laubach rifle featured on the cover our Christopher Laubach? Kudos if so! And a beautiful rifle either way.
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