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    I know it was wrong, but....

    Just wait. Some day your addiction will require larger doses of black powder smoke. and then you will have to acquire a CANNON !
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    How do you display your tomahawks?

    There was an 1830s law in Arkansas that made it illegal to carry a hawk or a bowie knife. some reenactors got worried about it in the 1990s. I do not know if anything was ever done about it.
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    Help identifying pistol

    I had one about 30 years ago for about 90 minutes. I traded for it and then a friend traded me out of it and another friend got it from him, called it the traveling pistol.
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    Short and light

    Col. Do you really think hunting a deer with a mountain Howitzer is practical ? Would it leave anything but bloody deer sausage ? about like hunting squirrel with a .69 rifle. Napoleon also said " Leave the artillerymen alone. They are an obstinate lot"
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    Discharge while loading

    When and where was this accident ?
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    probably a dumb question re squirrel rifle

    Do you use a magnifying glass to find your squirrel after shooting it with a cannon ?
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    Hello from Central Arkansas

    Frontstuffer, maybe you should avoid freak bicycles and stick to normal ones. Hello from an Arkie now visiting in Indiana
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    Cannon ball skip??

    Back in the dark ages and in my well spent reenacting (hello Treestalker) I was told about a crew that was shooting an original Napoleon tube into the Gulf of Mexico near Mobile, Alabama. The third or fourth round skipped about 4 times and hit a Coast Guard cutter coming to investigate...
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    Dear OLE TIMERS, Act Now

    Wait until you try a cannon. black powder in large doses
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    Need help in identifying a muzzleloader pls help!

    She is in Cincinnati.Friendship is not too far.Could she take it there and get it identified ? is there someone in Cincinati who could give hands on information ?
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    What rife would my ancestors have carried in the Civil War?

    The 95th was at Vicksburg and the 2nd was at Bull Run. These parks would be good places to ask. 2) any reenacting groups for these unit would be a great source.
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    The Alamo cannon

    What color was period correct ? I know they had some odd ones during the AWI.
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    The Alamo cannon

    You can loose a cannon when the carriage breaks and you don't have replacement parts.
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    smoothbore/cut down zouave

    1) Long time ago, 1980s, a friend of mine had a Zouave carbine and he shot good with it. 2) same time frame, you could buy drop in smooth bore Zouave barrels for rifle or carbine 3) also there was repro Harpers Ferry pistol in caplock that used the Zouave lock and barrel.If you could find any...
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    Mississippi rifle cartridges w/ball

    Try using the paper from the cartridge as your patch.
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    Federal smoothbores at Gettysburg, Jul. 1863

    Can someone delete my previous non reply ? The comment I wanted to make was some Arkansas troops at Shiloh were carrying flintlock muskets. As they went through Federal camps they exchanged the muskets for .58 rifles. A couple of hours later, they had sever ammo shortages and had to fall back...
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    Federal smoothbores at Gettysburg, Jul. 1863

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    Buying A Used MuzzleLoader.

    Treestalker, I should have known it was you talking about Blue Eye
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    What is the "end" of the Muzzleloader "era"?

    1865 is a convenient date. However, Sears was selling muzzleloading shotguns that were cut down and bored out Springfields in the 1890s. I had an uncle who used a muzzleloading shotgun in the late 1920s.
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    Need help engineering a cannon barrel

    Talk to north South Skirmish Association and to people who make and sell bronze cannon about how they proof them. Proof your gun as if you intend to live fire it. Have you cast bronze before ?
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