Cats! Ewwwww...have always thought of them as simply furry targets! No offense to cat owners...just kidding.. I have had the riverrat handle for a long, long time. First, from some of my compadres in SEA who wore the title and then from hunting on family property on the river. Just no place I'd rather be than in that 'ol river swamp.
I haven't fired a modern rifle in the two years I've had my flintlock. It's a late Lancaster ( Dickert school) in .50 cal made for me by a fellow named "Hoot" AL Neubauer up in Newton, Iowa. Ain't nothing like making that smoke! Lately, I think I've been coming down with the symptoms of smoothboreitus. Doubtful there's a cure, but maybe I can hang in there till the symptoms ease off a bit. Maybe.