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  1. pab1

    Grizzly Adams

    I stumbled across this Grizzly Adams box set recently. I used to enjoy this show when I was a kid in the '70s. I just started watching it and I'm only a few episodes in. Yes, its a little goofy, but it brings back a lot of memories. This show along with others (like the mini-series...
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    Revisiting our friend Titus Bass

    I read the Carry The Wind series years ago and really enjoyed it. Lately its been calling to me so I've been revisiting the world of Titus Bass. The first time I read it in the order the books were released (original trilogy, then the prequels followed by the sequels). This time I'm reading it...
  3. pab1

    Harey Enchiladas

    My favorite dish to prepare with snowshoe hares (or cottontails) is enchiladas. Since I prepare them with hares most often I came up with the name Harey Enchiladas. It takes two average size snowshoes or three cottontails to make a 13X9 pan of enchiladas. About a month ago I took a small...
  4. pab1

    Hunting Two Very Different Types of Terrain

    I wound up hunting two very different types of terrain today. I started out hunting in mountains looking for mule deer and elk. I covered quite a bit of ground and gained a lot of elevation. I saw a lot of deer and elk tracks but all the sign was a few days old. The freshest deer track I saw was...
  5. pab1

    Authentic Mountain Man Experience?

    I spent the last couple of days hunting with my .54 cal flintlock GPR. Mountain man Warren Angus Ferris spent a lot of time in this valley and wrote of it in his journals. I think of his writing often when I hunt this area. I haven't taken anything yet this season. Usually I see quite a few...
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    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    Anyone else enjoy camp cooking using sticks and stones? Share your pics and/or techniques. Here are a couple sticks and stones meals I've done to start the thread off. Bannock bread cooked on a rock. Whitetail backstraps cooked on the same rock. Dinner is served! I carved two...
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    Flintlock GPR Grouse

    I took my .54 cal flintlock Great Plains Rifle out yesterday. I fired a few shots at 50 and 100 yards with 95gr of 3F Goex to make sure everything was good for deer/elk season. After that I loaded a prb over 40gr of 3F Goex and went looking for grouse. I hiked up high and flushed a blue...
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    Rabbit Hunt Cut Short

    I was out yesterday along a river bottom to hunt cottontails with my .32 cal Crockett pistol. It was pretty warm yesterday so I was killing time waiting for evening when the rabbits would start moving. There's a lone paper birch I always stop by at this location. They're not common here. I...
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    Crockett Pistol Velocity Surprise

    I was at the range today to file down the rear sight of my .32 cal Crockett pistol. I brought my chronograph along to see what velocity I was getting with it. The load I'm using is the minimum shown by Traditions for this gun. Its a .310" (45gr) ball with a .010 patch over 10gr of 3F Goex...
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    A Day With The Crocketts

    Usually when I hunt small game with a patched round ball I use my .54 or .58 caliber guns with a light powder charge. Yesterday I realized it had been years since I took out my .32 caliber Crockett rifle. I decided to take it on today's grouse/snowshoe hare hunt and brought along my Crockett...
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    .56 Smoothbore Grouse Hunt

    I've had a couple .56 smoothbore Renegades for years and they've pretty much been ignored. Since I started playing with shot in my .62 smoothbore Renegade this year it got me thinking about the .56's. I took one to the range last week and it was shooting decent patterns with 7/8oz #6 shot over...
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    .56 Smoothbore Shot Patterning and Bare Ball

    I have a couple T/C 56 smoothbore Renegades that have been ignored for years. I shot one of them in 2008 and the other has never been out. I've been enjoying my .62 smoothbore flintlock Renegade recently which got me thinking about these guns. I decided to take the one I've never shot to the...
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    More grouse with the .62 smoothbore

    The plan today was to head up high and look for blue grouse. On the way to my destination I was running into spruce grouse. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth I wound up getting a limit of three birds well before I got close to where I planned to hunt. A bird in the hand... :thumb:
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    The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, USA...

    I meant to post this under Primary Documentation. I've had this book in my collection for years but never got around to reading it. Since his rank was listed in the title I had assumed it was associated with a military campaign (nothing wrong with that, I usually prefer reading journals of...
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    A 'Shoe and a Blue with the Good Old .62

    I headed out late this afternoon with my .62 cal smoothbore Renegade. I had a spot in mind that I wanted to hunt but when I got there a vehicle was parked at that spot. Its archery season here so there are more people than usual in the woods. As much as I wanted to hunt there, I don't want to...
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    If T/C Would Have Made a Northwest Trade Gun...

    If T/C had made a NW trade gun... it may have looked like this. Like their Hawken, it would have represented historical guns without being an accurate reproduction of any gun. It would have had the general characteristics of original guns. Yes, they did the .56SB but being a percussion gun...
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    Another .62 Smoothbore Grouse Hunt

    I got out for a few hours this afternoon with my .62 smoothbore flintlock. I ran across an old cabin. There are a several of these within a few miles of this one. I always wonder about the stories behind them. The birds were hard to come by today but I did take a blue grouse. Thanks for...
  18. pab1

    .62 Smoothbore Flintlock Grouse Hunt

    I took my .62 cal smoothbore flintlock Renegade out for the first day of grouse season. I usually use a patched round ball for small game and grouse. This year I decided to take advantage of the smoothbore's versatility and use shot in it. I've never been into shotguns or using shot so this was...
  19. pab1

    Gun Building Tutorial?

    Anyone have a link or remember who the builder was on the gun building tutorial there was a link to here 10-12 years ago? I've searched for it many times over the years with no luck. The builder was a master craftsman. I would enjoy reading about it and seeing the build pics again.
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    Vent/Touch Hole Pick

    I was going to order a new vent/touch hole pick for my flintlocks. I decided to make one from an Allen wrench instead. Nothing fancy but it will do.
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