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    Squirrel for supper...finally.

    Same here Chief, have been for several years. I had begun to think it was just me but I ran into a locally notable BP squirrel hunter who started traveling to my neck of the wood to hunt them and he told me he was getting skunked almost every trip and had never seen so few squirrels in his life...
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    Compass

    10-4,Thanks Claude.
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    Compass

    I looked at some on ebay and have to ask, what does false mean in relation to a compass??
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    Dan & Mike's Excellent Adventure

    thanks for sharing, it has been a bust for me this year and seeing that beautiful country along with your story is a pick me up. creek
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    Bees Wax uses and recipes

    that's exactly what that is, my needle case. there was no for thought to it, I had the bees wax out for something else and the hemp was scrap I had fluffed up for the fire kit so it was just handy at the time. creek
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    Bees Wax uses and recipes

    as requested
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    Bees Wax uses and recipes

    Clyde, i'll try yo get one tonight and post it tomorrow. it aint pretty, I roll it into a cone, double over the thin end and after inserting it round the top. picture a miniature ice cream cone. creek
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    Bees Wax uses and recipes

    an odd use I guess but I fluff some hemp twine up and soak it in bees wax until it is saturated and use it as stoppers for containers made of river cane, it forms easy and so far has held up well. creek
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    Hammock documentation.

    exactly!!! I have been wondering about this. I started sleeping in hammocks about 3 years ago, if you hang it right it beats a cot or the ground all to pieces. creek
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    some beginner's lessons

    when I got my first a couple of years ago I dry balled so many times in the first 50 or 60 shots I almost quit. 3 to 5 times. only once was I able to put powder in the touch hole and blow the ball out. one ball I literally brought the ball out of the touch hole a sliver at a time because I ended...
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    had a big one eating out of my hand

    when I was a boy I didn't think much of it but lookin back there's just something wrong about water skiing on Christmas day. I was born and raised in the deep south and always have lived in the deep south but the older I get the better southern Illinois looks. creek
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    Short squirrle hunt

    I haven't run a round ball through my .62 fowler yet, I sure hope I can learn to shoot it as well as you shoot your trade gun!!!! :hatsoff: creek
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    Now I get it Wick

    thanks Wick, I will go with the 1084. creek
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    Now I get it Wick

    I made 3 knives from a 16 inch masonry blade and while I was happy with the out come given my lack of skill and practice none of the three will take a decent edge. it was a good learning experience but I wont try another mystery steel project any time soon. I am going to order some 1095 and try...
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    Solvent-only cleaning???

    I would have never thought I would have found anyone who likes the smell(iness) of ballistol, it must be the memorys it conjures. creek
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    WD40

    anyone use fluid film for rust protection?
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    40 gauge

    my favorites are 410, I even shoot skeet with one.
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    Northwest Trade Musket Build

    just one question Crewdawg, when do you sleep?? :) creek
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    Looking at Flintlocks...

    just when i had convinced myself to lay off spending for awhile :headslap: now the fever is on me again. creek
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    Bear Hunters

    first congratulations to Sean and you other guys on your success. we had our first bear hunt here this season in 20 some odd years. i have never had any interest in hunting bears but i appreciate the folks who do, we are eat up with them now from the many years they were protected and many are...
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