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OK, now how do I go about cutting
them down to a decent size?
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I dunno on the pic size shrinking bit, but they sure are nice lookiing rifles!

7 mil - I recognize the bottom flinter as a T/C hawken. What is the top one??

Regards, sse

The size is fine, handsome rifles...you don' shoot them do you!

Thanks, fellows.

The top one is a CVA Pennsylvania Rifle.
It's a .50 cal, with 36 in barrel, one in 66 twist. It does
real good with rd balls and Buffalo Bullets. Not quite
as well with conicals, but still OK. It's 58" long, so it's
not something you want to cart around through the brush.
I put fiber optic sights on it, and a good fiberglass rod,
but other than that, it's pretty much over the counter.

I've had it since 1991, but never really shot it much
until the last 3 years. When the boy got old enough
to go along, my interest got redeveloped. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I did
manage to kill a doe with it in October. My first ML
deer.

The lower one is a CVA St Louis Hawken. It's also a .50
cal, 29 in barrel, with a 1 in 48 twist. It shoots great with
everything from rd balls to saboted pistol bullets. I just got
it last August, so this was it's first season. I mainly got
it so I had something to use in the brush. The story of the
kill is posted below. One of them "I'm glad it's over with"
hunts. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I've been using 245 grain Buffalo Bullets, over 70 grns of 3f
in both guns. Next year I'll probably load the Hawken with
sabots. I wanted to keep the same speed loads for both
guns this year.

I shoot both of them pretty regular when the weather permits.
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7mmbuster, There are two things you can do to reduce the size of your photographs. First of all if you know you will just be posting the photo on the forums you may want to just shoot the photo at 640 X 480 if you have a digital camera or while scanning the photo if you are using a scanner.

To reduce the size of a photo you have all ready taken, have on disk, or your computer you will need a photo editor for that. Most scanners and digital cameras come with those programs. If you don't have one there are several free programs on the internet.

Really like your muzzleloaders! Especially the one on the bottom. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Pretty good photo also.

Irfanview 3.80 should download directly from this TUCOWS link.

Great little image editing program and it's FREE. Works with almost any image format.

There we go. I had them hosted at Hunting Pictures before. Still don't know why the size went ballistic on me. I got stuff at imagestation now, and finally got the hang of it.
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Nice looking rifles - what is that top one?

CVA Pennsylvania Rifle. It's a .50 cal with a slow twist. I've had it for around ten years now. Good shooter with rd balls and buffalo bullets.
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Those are two nice muzzleloaders. I want to buy a Cabelas carbine muzzleloader and take a moose with it.