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    Microfiber Towels and Firearms

    Anyone have any experience using microfiber towels in firearm maintenance? Use with oils? Greases? Waxes? Solvents? Cleaning fluids?
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    Sun Bathing Cherry

    I have a cherry stocked rifle I have been leaving in a south facing window. I wanted the wood darker and it has been getting darker. I am wondering if, and for how long, that process would continue after I take it out of the sun.
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    WANTED Wrought Iron Brackets for Hanging a Rifle

    Used to have a local blacksmith for suchlike but he has moved away. Have another rifle I'd like to hang up. Do not want anything looks like it came from Walmart or Target. Need to be able to mount on a lath and plaster wall.
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    Did notknow where to go with this and hope this Forum is Appropriate

    I find taking photos of rifles and shotguns to be difficult. Granted, I am working with an iPhone. Sure I can take lots of pics but getting one that does a good job of showing a long gun as a whole with good details is just not so simple. Any suggestions?
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    The Words We Use and How They Define Us

    Read through a thread here with a lot of talk about whether we "harvest" or "kill" animals. I am sure it does not matter a damn to the dead animal, whether he has been harvested or killed. It is curious how and why we choose different words to identify identical events. Let me throw another word...
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    Hang Town Fry

    That dish just popped out of my memory and into my salivary glands. Between wives and pressed for money in the 80's I worked full time and bartended two part time jobs. Place I closed Saturday nights would cook me a hang town fry. I would eat it with a glass of "champagne". Sometimes they would...
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    Swivel Gun Mounting

    I have a swivel gun and I have a stone wall. The stone is sedimentary rather than igneous. Thinking of getting a piece of hard stone at the masonry yard and having them drill a hole in it for the mounting post of the gun's yoke. Mortar it on top of the existing stone wall. Thinking maybe the...
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    Unusual Horns

    These horns were made by a man who exhibited them at a historical society event in Conestoga, PA. He wanted to make them as, maybe, a Northwest Indian might have done. The large travel/storage horn is meant to represent an orca. The carving on the small "daily carry" horn is very nice. The...
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    Calibers of Original, 18th Century Rifles

    Perusing Shumway's "Pennsylvania Long Rifles of Note". Looking through "Masterpieces of the American Longrifle". Thinking back on shows and exhibits I have attended. The caliber of the rifles is never mentioned. I had wondered what the most popular calibers were in the 1700's. Now I am thinking...
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    Barrel Wall Thickness

    There are two sxs shotguns in this room with me. A Pietta 12GA percussion and a Fox 16 GA unmentionable. The tube walls on the Pietta are significantly thicker than those of the Fox. This aroused my curiosity and I went and examined the tubes of my other shotguns, which are all unmentionables...
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    Renaissance Wax

    Got my first Renaissance Wax yesterday and so far am very happy with it. Did several double gun stocks and it cleaned and polished the wood so well that it made the guns look like higher grades than they are. The 200ml can is not cheap, but a little bit goes a long ways. Have an old oak ice box...
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    Odd Finding on an Idle Afternoon

    Had two double guns here by my desk and, in an idle moment, put them on the desk and examined them. One is a Pietta percussion lock 12GA sxs. The other is a Fox unmentionable sxs. The Pietta is well made and awkward. I do not like mounting it and swinging it. It feels as though it weighs 12...
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    Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Figure in the Wood?

    Was looking at a flintlock rifle for sale. Beautiful.....except the stock had more stripe than any tiger which ever walked. The lines were thinner and more closely spaced than I am used to seeing. For me, that striping was a distraction which detracted from the overall beauty of the rifle. I...
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    I Invite You

    Under the Beyond the Great Divide Forum I suggest cannon enthusiasts look at my post regarding the passing of Charlie Smithgall.
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    Charlie Smithgall Has Passed

    Likely you do not recognize his name. Understandable. He operated a pharmacy in the city of Lancaster, PA. He has served as Lancaster's mayor. He lived on a farm not far from me. Why am I telling you about him? He had what was possibly the largest collection of muzzle loading cannons in the...
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    Swivel Gun Base

    I have been making do with bases for my swivel gun. Boring holes in logs, etc. Would like to get a permanent base. Considered a block of stone with a hole bored into it. But that is not particularly portable. What have others done? Any suggestions appreciated.
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    WANTED Sjambok

    South African hippo or rhino hide whip. Also known as a kiboko. Might also consider the plastic version as used by South African police.
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    Breakfast

    Prior to the Covid outbreak I was in a group of Lancaster PA vicinity people who worked in the same business and met once a month for breakfast. We were all retired part time workers and it was a very collegial group. Covid blew that all to hell and gone. But I wonder if we could find some...
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    SHIPPED ???

    I see the word "shipped" frequently in these for sale postings. It is a bit of a bother. What does it mean? Boxed and taken to the post office or UPS? Or delivered to the buyer's door? I shipped a lot of product prior to retirement. The clear and usual designation was FOB. Either FOB origin or...
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    Dominick Carpenter Cannon Builder

    He lives outside of Philadelphia and builds spiffy cannons. Some to scale and some not. Years back I bought a full size, black powder beer/soda can Stokes mortar from him. It is fun and draws some shocked looks when I set it up!! I have lost his contact and web site info. If anyone can provide...
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