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Let's see some muzzleloaders! Muzzleloading season starting soon so I wiped the dust from sitting all year and took a snapshot. Knight .45 w/ 2-7x35 Burris
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Lyman lefthanded .54 cal flintlock..... My boy with the Ramblings Rifle, which is his now.... My KP1.....
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Joseph Lang 18 bore double rifle. Technically, not mine any more. I sold her this summer. Home build underhammer .45 with a paper patched bullet. Easily the ugliest rifle I own. One of the more accurate however. Home built flint lock .54 roundball I really need a new rifle though. This is what I want to build next. This is an authentic Hawken. One of only two that I have heard of having a pistol grip.
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Triumph 50 cal. ......B&L 2x7x32 (just sold it and now have a VXII 2x7x32 on it.) New last year, got this deer on my first hunt with it.
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Wildswalker, were you calling turkeys to whack'em with a .54? Seems like an interesting idea. Not legal here, but I like it.
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My "primitive weapon": Lyman Great Plains Rifle .54 cal. My "modern muzzle loader": Rem 700 ML .50 cal.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 1795
"Give me liberty or give me death" Patrick Henry 1775
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Wildswalker, were you calling turkeys to whack'em with a .54? Seems like an interesting idea. Not legal here, but I like it.
Brent That was the plan, and is legal, here.
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Did ya get one? I don't know if I would try with a muzzleloading rifle, even if legal, but I might. Brent
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Not yet, with that rifle.
Had it out a couple times last fall, and didn't turkey hunt this past spring due to the new job.
I can see a fair bit of commemoration in flintlocking a turkey.......
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Here is an old picture with some dinks. We were glad to get em.
There is no accounting for taste.
Experience is a great thing as long as one survives it.
Generally, there ain't a lot that separates the two however, Barely making it is a whole lot more satisfying than barely not making it.
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Here is an old picture with some dinks. Yeah, but the deer are nice
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Brent,
Who makes the Hawken at the bottom of your post?
Parts set, kit, or ????
Have a good day man. In honor of personal freedom and the open squirrel season, I think I'll go put a hole through dinner's head.
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The Hawken Brothers made that rifle - the real Hawken brothers. That is a bona fide original. I would like to make one but I have not done it yet. There are no parts set - I have suggested that Track of the Wolf might want to get the jump on that - it would sell!
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NICE fat buck. I wonder what he weighed. There is a tape measure sold (for a dollar) by the state of Pennsylvania that you can use to measure the girth of a deer and convert it into live weight, dressed weight and meat estimates. That boy is a real toad! I would love to take one like that.
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Gotcha, Brent - authentic, as in an original! I should have caught that from your description but I'm (and have been for a while) for a build to undertake and got caught up in that fever.
Interesting pistol grip. Reminds me of an old L.C. Smith hammer gun that I used to drag around as a kid. Tight choked 33 inch barrels.
Have a good day man. In honor of personal freedom and the open squirrel season, I think I'll go put a hole through dinner's head.
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If you look at that picture for a while the grip will begin to look fat - it is. At least it does to me anyway. But it also looks really strong. I think it would be a dynamite hunting rifle. I would prefer it from black walnut and I may just do it from scratch so to speak. It would be a lot more unique than most. And really functional. I would build it light however. Shooting for around 8.5-9 lbs.
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Skane, that would be a moose of a deer! Any idea of weight?
That would be the poster child for those of us who'd advocate using enough gun and cheering on penetration!
Have a good day man. In honor of personal freedom and the open squirrel season, I think I'll go put a hole through dinner's head.
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