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    Mike Nesbitt Article

    I've shot with Mike, he's killed lots of deer, bucks and does on my place over the years. Tell you what, if you are going to shoot against him, on your two hind legs, out of a pouch, open sights, no shaders and no peeps and no body rest, you best keep your money in your pocket because he'll...
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    BP Explosion from Impact?

    I put some of my nitroglyceren heart pills on the anvil and beat the manure out of them with a hammer. They didn't go off either. I remember one time I was filling my horn over the kitchen sink, and some 3F spilled into the sink. My X had a fit, but being above average intellegence I told her...
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    short starter

    Here's one that should bring about some discussion. I'd be willing to bet that if not all of us, more than 99% use a short starter. Here's my question. How come, in all the books I've read and that show photos, and all the museums over thirty years, that show shooting pouchs with...
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    I saw the stragest thing at a gun shop last week.

    You can't buy that super sparking stuff anymore. It was spent urainium and still radio active. It sure sparked though. It was banned from use at the primitive shoots, so guys that were using it usually had two frizzens. I think they had to rivet it to the frizen face. I never had any, but I...
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    discouraged

    Yeah Swampman, you're right, but expensive flintlocks can be problematic also. Isn't that part of the fun of hunting with them? It is for me anyhow. You can do everything right and the gun not go off due to any number of things. A friend and I with at least 80 years of roundball...
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    On the problem of Wolves

    I know what you mean about them towns. People and cars coming at you from every direction tends to booger me a mite. I don't have any concerns about wolves, shucks there is only one in Oregon that we know of anyhow. My concern is it's just one more preditor that we are supposed to live with...
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    On the problem of Wolves

    At one of the fur trade rendezvous a trapper was bit by a rabid wolf. I forget dates and time, but the PC people never seem to mention rabies which is one heck of a good reason to pack heat in the woods. A rancher friend of mine had to get the shots because one of his cows was rabid and bit...
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    Carrying Concealed Blackpowder Handguns

    I have a concealed carry permit and a sig-sauer 45 ACP with a laser sight. The laser sight is because I'm a lousy pistol shot. First off, I rarely carry the pistol in town, and when I do it's usually in the vehicle. What decided me to get a carry permit also insures that I'll never see a...
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    Bore Brushes

    This isn't a brush, but a paint roller fits perfectly in the bore of my cannon. I attached it to the end of a closet rod (for hanging clothes) and use it for sponging and cleaning.
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    Help with identification

    Zonie, Yeah, I see where you are coming from. It's just that the gun is in such bad shape. The condition the gun is in is what really makes the value -- unless it can be somehow proven that it is an American made pistol because that would inflate the price. The fact that it's a flinter also...
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    Help with identification

    Zonie, I think you are a little high on the price. Flayderman's is way high on their prices, and the condition of this pistol makes me think that $1500 is way out of line. I'm thinking even $600 would be high, because I have an antique one just like this one, engraved and carved stock, and...
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    Brand and Model Confusion

    Several years ago Colt started producing caplock revolvers "again". It was a really big deal and they were expensive. Uberti made them for Colt. That tells me something about Uberti, but besides that they have a really good reputation.
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    Help with identification

    It's from the 1700's, and like was already said, they are called horse pistols, and the wire is a repair. But there are also English sea service pistols that look just like it. I don't think it's English because of the lack of markings. There would be proof marks on the barrel near the...
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    Dangerous M1816 Lockplate on Ebay!

    I went to the web site Wheeloockhunter posted, and there are 5 empty 308 brass and a stripper clip being bid on. The bid is 51 Austrailian dollars. So I went to a money exchange, and that amount is almost $38 American dollars. Wow, what's going on?
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    Dangerous M1816 Lockplate on Ebay!

    I heard of Ebay freezing pay pal accounts, and you can't get your money. They can get away with it because they aren't federally insured like a bank. I've sold stuff and purchased stuff on ebay, but not in a long time. I remember a few years ago they had explicit xxx porn for sale, but you...
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    packing eggs

    Packed eggs many a mile on mules. Just left them in the carton and packed the box with the eggs on the top. That's the paper egg carton, the new plastic cartons out of styrafoam don't seem to work all that well. Put cans next to glass jars, which now days there isn't many of those, but glass...
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    Well, here's my two...

    Looks to me like you done good. Now why don't you post a picture of a target with the center chewed out of it, because I'll bet it shoots as good as it looks. Preacher, am I seeing a rate of third class coreman? don't know if I spelled that right, but it doesn't look like a Marine Corps rank...
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    My basement wall

    Davy, Here's the close up of the rifle. I forgot they were in black and white. I think they were included in a story in one of the black powder magazines back in the 80's is why the black and white. I'll take some color photos and post them later along with an original pistol I have that's...
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    My basement wall

    Boondocker and Davy, you asked for more pictures. Someplace I have a couple of photos of the rifle, but I have to find them, because one of them has a dead squirrel in it that I shot with the rifle. Otherwise I'll have to take some pictures. Regarding other wall sections above my shop. Here...
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    My basement wall

    Looking in Kindig's book, "The Kentucky Rifle in it's Golden Age" this rifle looks like it might be made by Wolfgang Haga or someone closely associated with him. The patch box and the over all look of the rifle are ringers to the one on page 200. Mine has no carving, and no name. Haga...
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