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  1. okawbow

    Touch Hole Cleaning

    Tobacco stores sell a tapered pipe cleaner that works well in my rifles.
  2. okawbow

    2024 Turkey Hunting

    These toms and hens were down by my creek the other day, NW Tennessee. I suspect they will be gone by the season in April, as they were last year.
  3. okawbow

    New Member looking for history on a family heirloom

    There was more than one Ebersol in Ottawa, Illinois between 1843 and 1880. Daniel S. Was the first. Joseph W. Came latter. I would say yours was made by Joseph after 1866. Here is a picture of an Ebersol and D. krouse rifle made between 1872 and 1880. All this info and the picture is in 18th &...
  4. okawbow

    .45 Caliber: Deer?

    Back in the day, there were hundreds of thousands if not millions of deer killed with .45 and smaller rifles. Longhunters used the smallest caliber they thought would do the job, because they stayed in the wilderness for months and even years at a time and had to conserve powder and lead. A soft...
  5. okawbow

    weight of trigger pull on a Kibler Woodsrunner

    The woodsrunner I’m finishing now has a very nice trigger pull. No adjustment needed. Better, in my opinion than a set trigger for hunting.
  6. okawbow

    G. Goulcher Gun - Trying to get info. and approx. value

    Mid 1800, missing drum and barrel rib/ ramrod thimbles. Could have been made almost anywhere from New York to Illinois. Value in current condition about $100.00
  7. okawbow

    What makes a good squirrel rifle ?

    I have squirrel rifles in .30, .36, and .40 calibers. They all work well, but all will tear up a squirrel if loaded too hot. I like the .40 caliber loaded with 15 grains 3F and .395 round ball best. If I miss the head and hit the body, it just punches a hole through with minimal meat loss...
  8. okawbow

    SOLD Kibler Southern Mountain Rifle SMR - .45 caliber with extra fancy Maple stock

    This is an original George Fay Bedford county rifle. Sights are backwards. Look like they always were to me.
  9. okawbow

    SOLD Kibler Southern Mountain Rifle SMR - .45 caliber with extra fancy Maple stock

    Salty Cracker- I’ve seen several original southern rifles and others that had the sights on backwards. I have had two originals with backward sights myself. Some people like them that way. Some shooters reverse the rear sight to get it slightly father from their eye. Some think they see the...
  10. okawbow

    Interesting info from the Lewis and Clark expedition

    I once shot a stuck ramrod out of a .45 cal. flintlock with just a few grains of 4F pushed into the vent. I aimed it at 45 degrees and it went out of sight! Took me an hour to find it. I also knew a father and son that shot deer in the archery season with their Thompson Center .45’s using...
  11. okawbow

    Help ID Half Stock Percussion Rifle

    probably made in Pennsylvania 1850-1880 or so. Very nice condition. Likely replaced with a cartridge gun early on and put away with little use. I like these slim half stocks as much as the earlier flintlocks. There were hundreds of one or two man shops making rifles during this period. They had...
  12. okawbow

    Chromic Acid Stain

    I stained several hard maple stocks with CRO3. Never had one turn green. Might be something else that causes the green. I always used BLO. As a finish.
  13. okawbow

    45 PRB load

    60 grains 2f. .440 ball, denim patch.
  14. okawbow

    Lead balls have casting imperfections

    I every accuracy trial I have ever read, the base of the bullet is the most important. I always load the sprue up. I once shot a 10 shot table match with hand cast balls with a good sized sprue, that had an average of .210” spread. That was sprue up. The tremendous pressure on the base of the...
  15. okawbow

    GOEX is Back!

    :mad:
  16. okawbow

    West Tennessee buck

    Looks like a tough one. I think good luck is often just hours spent in the woods. Sooner or later something will happen, and a good hunter is ready to take advantage of the chance. Good buck!
  17. okawbow

    West Tennessee buck

    Hung the buck in a tree last night at the base of a bluff. Quartered and packed him up the hill to a logging road in 4 trips.
  18. okawbow

    West Tennessee buck

    Didn’t expect this one! Hunting my 12 acre place in North west Tennessee. He was following a doe down the hill this evening and stopped about 75 yards away. Shot him with my self made Bedford County halfstock. .45 caliber round ball. 60 grains 2f. Dropped him in his tracks. Haven’t seen many...
  19. okawbow

    Tn. Muzzleloader season countdown

    Will get after them Tuesday. The deer have gone from my little 12 acre woods also in the past two weeks. There is picked corn and about 200 acres of turnips coming up about 1/2 mile away. Guess they like that better than acorns. The rut should get the bucks moving through during the day though.
  20. okawbow

    opinions wanted

    Tin Sandwich, if you happen to drive through west Tennessee, I would be happy to give you a tin of caps. Dixie gunworks also has them. I also have a couple of the regular live fire tins I bought at a rummage sale.
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