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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Wish there was a big of chat on set triggers and installing them It’s sunny been shooting arrows all morning , got a Hoyt ionx bow USA 2016 ???? model Got a Robin Hood one too Yes my pet wood pigeon is no more , 4 days nothing but a previous crime scene
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Hot sunny day. London Something to do, on the verge of being an unmentionable But I thought might be interesting It’s a swiss target 1885 rifle but it’s been messed around with, good or bad, modern stock ,replaced with a heavy .5 barrel 1/37 twist sometime in the distant past, the barrel...
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    How old are ya?

    Me with the shawl dying got Colvid , but still here ha ha
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    How old are ya?

    Ok if you are under 90 you ain’t old , Can we see your faces too, no need to shave. I gather are English soldiers were not allowed to grow beards in flintlock times, mandatory to shave every 3 days. True or false ??? I just read it somewhere Yrs all me and a couple of years before ...
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    SxS cape Gun

    That is so nice. It seems the Swiss and Germans we more into set triggers than the British . I wonder why that is. However both of theses countries are very much into high quality products even today.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Well done, I have junk everywhere . Cannot find a thing sometimes , I have too much stuff in my little workshop and if it falls on the floor it stays there . Must have a clear up But my previous thick paper 577 sabots turned out great now the glue hardened ( 2 layers and silicon base. Bullet...
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    SxS cape Gun

    For me this is a fantastic string , love cape rifles
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    How old are ya?

    I have seen your photo ,!!!!!! definitely young and handsome. Lots of love from Joan and me.
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    How old are ya?

    Get off the string you ain’t even 80 yet and I bet still young and handsome This is me at 81 the wife 76 , I look old with my 577 ml big game rifle Let’s see your faces as Tommy 76 up in Maine said “ you look older than me”. It’s the Anglo Saxon chin that ruins my face God bless you all
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    SxS cape Gun

    I am quite taken by the German hammer shape you cape rifle is very nice. . So much so I bid on this ml German rifle “ “ SELLIER & CO., LEIPZIG, Holts March auction but alas I lost Should have put a higher bid in, even so it was higher than valuation, totally gutted. I had just paid out...
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    How old are ya?

    I already said I was born in the spring 22 mins past 2 am. 22 March 1943 I see we are not the only 81 year olds on this string , it’s just a number . My pet fox
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    SxS cape Gun

    Oh great , well fantastic, looks like Swiss or German as it seems to have a hump back lock , ( that’s like the close up of my hump back lock on my Swiss Feldstuter , ) I have two percussion cape rifles , but I cannot fire them in uk, no police permit , long story . A rusty one is being done...
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    Red Mapel

    This is the wrong string but it’s among builder lads. I mentioned etching steel using a battery charger. This early sample took around 30 mins to etch away you just need salt water , battery charger 12 v , a steel workpiece and and a steel bar And paint whet you don’t want the steel...
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    How old are ya?

    81 two weeks ago. Shotgun and pistol shooter most of life , just a collector now plus pcp air guns and arrows . We wish you well from London
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Oh you are into etching. I made some steel medallions Battery charger very cleaned steel object . Second bit of steel Plain water Plus salt I painted the steel I did not want etched , I recall the positive went to the object and negative to the scrap bit of steel , after 20 mins at...
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Joan did not moan when I bid on a ml rifle at holts auction but went mad when I bought a small industrial mixer . But when it arrive “that will look nice in the kitchen”, Dead pleased just made three loaves using it . Kids came over for leg of lamb lunch , tasty
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    HOW RURAL IS RURAL?

    Sounds like you are speaking as an aboriginal from Oz. Guess I was born in the spring. They are the guardians of the land I recall the king owns the whole of England and we just kind of borrow it. Much of uk is crown lands Well something like that. But you are right of course...
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    HOW RURAL IS RURAL?

    WOW. What country I can only dream of I am 17 miles from centre of London on 1/3 of an acre , but I can shoot pigeons and squirrels with a pcp bsa Scorpio. I was 81 22 March no longer will the police allow me to shoot real guns . Got woods across the road on a big hill with occasion deer...
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Trying to get my ladder sight perfect , gluing and will then carve the walnut wedge
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