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    Ramsour's Mill Battle Re-enactment

    Link : http://ramsoursmill.org/
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    Turkey Load for a 56 smoothie

    Can't find anything on this.....had it saved but that computer crashed and I forgot to write it down. I want to know what everybodies using.....but I only have on hand #4 chilled lead and Goex FF for a load. Thanks.
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    Turkey Hunting Preformance 56 Smoothrifle

    Gentleman, I am wondering what I can settle for with my 28 gauge Smoothrifle.....percussion gun. Details : I am currently loading 70 grain of Pyrodex and 90 grain of #4 Chilled Lead Shot. I am buffering the shot and powder with a half inch felt wad and over shot card from TOW [ 3 layered...
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    Grits as a filler ?

    How does that work? Does it mix with the powder? Can grits be used as a buffer or wad in Rifles also?
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    Recognition and thanks are in order!

    My special thanks to the Hesse-Kasel Jaeger Korps, to Grzrob, and NCHawkeye for "Living History" and Firelock Demonstrations at the 2009 BSA Outdoor Games for the Central NC Council of the BSA. Over one thousand Cub Scouts,Adult Leaders, and family members were treated to a live 1780's militia...
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    Smokin and Salt Curin Meat

    This takes alot of skill. I tried it with two real nice Deer Hams. Put the deer over some hickory smoke...then put the meat in the cool wood boxes...rubbed in the salt.....had salt in the boxes to soak up the blood. Turned the meat now and then. I did this in an insulated garage for about 60...
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    Can you mix up ffg and ffffg ?

    I got some sage advise from a salesman....won't mention his name..... I told him........my friends on Traditional Muzzleloading Forum state that I can shoot #3. He said, "I am the Olympic world champion/State Champion/ Local Muzzleloader Shooter for more years than you got hairs on your...
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    JP Mc Coy Flintlock Rifle ?

    Anyone ever heard of this gun? I appreciate any information that anyone has on this builder. Don't have a picture to post at this time. Gun is full stock....Lancaster style....plain..curly maple ....big lock....brass patch box....not fancy....double triggers. signed.
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    Tell us all about the Eastern.

    What about registration?... Camping?....Shooting? :wink:
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    Can you shoot pyrodex in a flintlock?

    Can you shoot pyrodex in a flintlock? I can't find no blackpowder here in Lincoln County North Carolina. Advice and suggestions welcome. :)
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    Looking for information ...on a gun.

    I have recently acquired a 45cal.flintlock rifle. It is a custom flintlock gun in 45cal. It is signed F.Burton on the top of the full octagan barrel. It has cg douglas stamped into the barrel [43in.]. The gun is covered in silver inlays and has a silver eagle patch box....which is just a cover...
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    Buck' n Ball and Swan Shot ?

    Historical accounts show that militia armed with muskets could deliver 3 times the fire power of a rifle. Some report that the rate of fire is three shots per minute plus the added effect of loads of Buck'n Ball. What is this load? How does it differ from Swan Shot? What is Swan Shot? Which type...
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    "They trusted in God And kept their powder dry."

    I am refering to pages 98 and 99 of "Kings Mountain", by Hank Messick. Want to know if the author has it right about the Jacob Dickert Rifle. Men come in from Virginia and Georiga and North Carolina and South Carolina and Watauga [ the Holston Valley of what is now Tenn. ],did they mostly carry...
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    Who the heck is Eliot Wigginton?

    Eliot Wigginton is the english teacher from the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia that started Foxfire magazine along with his ninth- and tenth- grade classes in 1966. Foxfire Book #5 is dedicated to Iron Making and Blacksmithing, Gunmaking, and Bear Hunting. There are 200 odd pages...
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    First steps with a smoothbore!

    Got to share this story. I am new carrying the smoothbore to the woods for meat. That said, I hunted all season with my T/C 56, never "crooked my finger". I let my only deer go...a cow horned Buck cause I was hunting for a Doe or a keeper. Well I just knew that I was going to do well with the...
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    Earily Flintlocks in America

    For this discussion, let us table the matter of the "Evolution" of the Hudson Bay Company Gun, otherwise North West Gun and the Type G Carolina Gun otherwise, Southern Long Rifle. The question is: Do we know the time line and the guns that were on the continent prior to the Revolutionary War and...
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