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    Very Successful Squirrel Hunt!

    Five of us hunting...our annual 4 day squirrel hunt/camp.( 19th year!) Tally: 92 squirrels,2 wood ducks,1 wild boar, several bottles of good Kentucky sour mash and for me...a six-pak of outstanding GERMAN BIER sent to me by Mein Freund Deutch,UNDERTAKER :grin:. I killed the hog,a young boar...
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    Anyone Hunt Using A Ghillie Suit?

    Finally broke down and bought one. Never had any experience with a Ghillie,and don't know anyone who has. So what about it....did I waste my money or not? What experience has anyone had with Ghillies? :hmm:
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    Trolling For Bear!

    I'll leave before day in the morning enroute my home area of the mountains of North Georgia right up on the North Carolina line for opening day of bear season Saturday! I'll be alone...I much prefer to be alone in the woods :winking:. I'll walk in a half mile or so from the road and set up my...
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    Is This A Rifle--Or A Smooth Bore?

    If you have a copy of Neumann's "Battle Weapons of the American Revolution",take a look on page 224 at the Southern Rifle with the grease hole in the stock. I have this piece in 60cal made from measurements taken from the original (now on exhibit at the Valley Forge Museum) EXCEPT what I have is...
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    Who Is Going To The CLA Show?

    Just wondered who will be at the Contemporary Longrifle Association Show in Lexington,Kentucky this coming week-end? I'll be there set up with two tables showing my Southern Mountain Rifle collection along with my Pennsylvania Rifles as well. If you are there please stop by my tables and...
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    Need Scattergun Advice, Please

    Will some of you experienced smoothbore shotgun shooters please look at what I am doing and offer suggestions for improvement? I'm well experienced with PRB rifle marksmanship,but just starting out with fowling pieces. I had a 16ga double made,copied from a 1810 original made in New York...
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    Would You Jug Choke Or Not?

    If you were having a fowling piece made, primarily for waterfowl and turkeys as I am,would you have the barrel jug choked? or possibly just choked about 10,000th.? Or left cyl bore? The barrel is 50 inches long,16ga.,and Ed Rayle will have it finished soon. Thoughts?Comments? Mike,et al.?
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    Mayday-Mayday.I'm In Trouble

    Please tell me what you do! Tri-focals and now upcoming catarac surgery is making me more dependent on my smoothbores,but I'm a rifleman and not a smoothie shooter :cursing:. I'm shooting a 16ga cyl bore Getz barrel trying to load round balls.My mould is a .6508cal from Rapine.Called them,told...
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    Question For Double Barrel Shooters

    Contrary to modern double barrels where the right barrel is usually fired first,then the choked left barrel, doesn't it make more sence with a hammer gun to fire the left barrel first and then the right? This way you won't have to reach over the already fired right hammer to back the left...
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    L&R Lock Company Experience

    Recently had a Gillespie Rifle made,and we used an L&R flintlock since it most nearly matched the original rifle that we copied. Experienced a problem with the fly not doing it's job after first eight rounds fired,so I sent the lock back to L&R and awaited to see what would happen. The good...
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    Just Joined

    Friend suggested that I could learn a good bit here,so I've enlisted.Rifles of Colonial America are my primary interest,with Southern Mountain Rifles being high on the scale. I'll remain in a passive mode for a while until I see how the Board operates.
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