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    Fist squirrel with Bess

    2nd model bess, 4 inches shorter than 1st model
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    Fist squirrel with Bess

    As a shotgun
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    Fist squirrel with Bess

    Long time since I've been here. This my first squirrel with my Pedersoli Bess, a retirement gift from my wife this year. (70g 2f, 80g #6 shot, paper shot cup)
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    Tomahawk carrying

    I carry my hawk at the 8 o'clock position, in a frog, not through my belt. Through the belt is uncomfortable. If I don't have a cover on it I WILL cut my arm.
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    Deer Hunting in North Carolina

    Where are you headed? Around the Raleigh area the two big and one medium state game lands (Jordan, Falls, and Harris) are where a lot of people go. Harris is the smaller, and closest to the city, and seems to get the most hunters. Jordan is huge. Some parts are hunted heavily and some parts...
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    Pietta 1858 Remington Review

    I use .451
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    Pietta 1858 New Army and confused

    Hi, I use .451 balls in mine, they shave just a small ring of lead while loading. Black powder is measured by volume not by weight. In theory 100 grains of 2f black powder (the real stuff) also has a weight of 100 grains. But if you're using anything else, triple 7, pyrodex, or even 3f black...
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    Soldering a front sight?

    That's how we learned to solder in 8th grade metal shop. Back when metal shop was a required subject for boys and home economics was required for girls.
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    Loyalist Arms Fusil

    I do not dispute that US or India-made barrels are not proved to the the standards we usually mean, that is being testing by an independent testing house, my point is that when someone says they proof their barrels, they are not making a false statement within the formal definition of proofing a...
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    Loyalist Arms Fusil

    I would disagree that no American firearms manufacturer proofs their barrels. The United States does not have a legal definition of proofing firearms. Manufacturers, for example Winchester, proof their own barrels. Winchester has an actual stamp on the barrel showing it passed their proof...
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    legal muzzleloader caliber for NC squirrels

    I have hunted squirrels with a 7.92 Mauser FMJ, in squirrel season, outside of deer season. Just to say I have used all my guns for hunting at least once (I don't hunt deer, so can't use one there). FMJ just passes through a squirrel with obviously no expansion so it doesn't actually tear up...
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    Squirrel Loads?

    In my 28 gauge I am currently using 70g 2F and equal volume of shot, usually 7 1/2, with a paper shot cup. Shot cup is triple layers of paper cut halfway down on 4 sides. Two wonder wads over powder, cardboard over shot wad. Maximum range is about 20 yards. Although I once got 2 squirrels with...
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    What does your hunting area look like?

    True Mountain Man type of story! :rotf:
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    What does your hunting area look like?

    Yeah, that's my trained squirrel-hunting gray fox. :wink: I see what you mean about it looking alive, never noticed that before. But it's dead. I thought, 'ya know, I see a lot of people posing with their deer, never saw anyone pose with their fox', so I took a picture. :grin:
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    What does your hunting area look like?

    One of the rare days I went fox hunting. And one of the even rarer days when I got one! I am not a good fox hunter, I actually took 20 years between the first time I went fox hunting and the first fox I shot. :redface:
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    What does your hunting area look like?

    My hunting area around mid-october And in late November after the leaves drop
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    anyone hunt with a cap and ball revolver?

    I carry a Remington 1858 as a trapline gun, to dispatch trapped animals, but I don't actually "hunt" with it.
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    Knife too big ?

    I absolutely agree with this. A small tomahawk and a small razor-sharp sheath knife (4 inch blade) are my main edged tools whenever I'm hunting or camping, using flintlock or modern gun. I also carry a 4 inch blade folder in my pocket for jobs I don't want to use my finely-honed sheath knife on.
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    Greeting from Cambridge UK

    Welcome! Cake Or Death, that's a great name, and a great motto! :grin: You will find this place is very helpful. It is the most friendly gun forum I have even visited.
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    Permethrin

    I am a tick magnet. When I was using 7% DEET I routinely got ticks, I once got 80 ticks (yes eighty) in 10 days of fishing. I virtually never came home in warm weather without a few ticks. A year ago I got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Very, very sick. Although the doctor said that research...
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