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Well done Longhunter! Nice lefty! FYI. I have personally held an original left hand French fusil lock that came out of one of the Tunica sites in Marksville Louisiana approx 50 years ago! It is in a private collection. There was another LH fusil found at another Tunica site on the Mississippi at Haines Bluff Miss. by Harvard Univ.
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Well done Longhunter! Nice lefty! FYI. I have personally held an original left hand French fusil lock that came out of one of the Tunica sites in Marksville Louisiana approx 50 years ago! It is in a private collection. There was another LH fusil found at another Tunica site on the Mississippi at Haines Bluff Miss. by Harvard Univ.
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If you don't have a good beagle and a smoothbore flintlock to hunt rabbits then you don't know what you're missing. My beagle Dolly brought this cottontail around in front of my 28ga smoothbore loaded with #5 shot This one was taken earlier in the season with a 20ga flintlock and #5 shot
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Great pics Longhunter!! And a swell pup!!!
I just wished I could get out in the woods!!!!
"Deep Winter" ( relative term here) rendezvous is weekend afternext down here. Haven't been in almost 15 years!!! Know the booshway real well. We've hunted together. And it's only about 60 miles from the house. Gonna try and go!!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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I've lost interest. Green Mountain DID at one time make 62's but they stopped those shenanigans. Steelhead; TC made the Renegade in a .56 smoothbore for a while. Massachusetts had a deer hunting regulation regarding primitive arms season where a rifle had to be flintlock but if you wanted to use a caplock it had to be a smooth bore. TC responded to their crazy neighbor with a smooth bore version of the Renegade. I don't know if one of those barrels might be available somewhere but thought it could be another option. Good hunting.
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I have a Navy Arms English style 12 gauge percussion double I absolutely love. perfect for grouse squirrels etc. Not sure how to upload a picture unfortunately....
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Just finished a refurb on my old Northstar West brand Light Infantry (English) fusil. It’s like a 2/3 scale Brown Bess musket. When I get opportunity I’ll post a pic. May be a day or two.
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Just finished a refurb on my old Northstar West brand Light Infantry (English) fusil. It’s like a 2/3 scale Brown Bess musket. When I get opportunity I’ll post a pic. May be a day or two. Please forgive crappy pic.
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Thanks Jim. I let the brown "cook" the barrel a bit more before killing it. Worked good in our humidity here. And even tho its a walnut stock, I aquafortised it then burnished it with my heat gun to get the aged black color. That stuff is still reacting with the wood too making it darker. Then my BLO mix on the wood. It’s curing nicely.
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Comin up turkey season real soon, can't wait to get after em again. This is my first smoothbore that I've had since 79, a 12ga English Fowler built for me my Jud Brennan. It's accounted for it's share of birds, deer and rabbits
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Very nice Longhunter!!!!! Very nice!!!
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Very cool, both of you guys.
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Thank you. Here's another picture of the 12ga fowler And another
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This one was taken with a Jackie Brown 20ga that I let a friend talk me out of. These birds were taken with flintlock smoothbores
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Damnedest thing, very nice.
Is the amount of shot similar to a hunting shell, or do you increase it some with a muzzle loader?
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Jim,
Sometimes I’d shoot equal volumes powder and shot. Other time I’d shoot a measure of powder and then a measure and a half of shot.
Usually worked out well.
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