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Traditional guns, and living the mountain man era is muzzleloading to me.
I tried the inline thing. It rubbed me the wrong way, and couldn't do it. Might as well just shoot a CF gun. So, I do, and save the ML for reenacting.
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I use both as they are just a tool to me.The hunt is more important to me than what I shoot. The 50 cal hawkin weighs in about 9 +pounds and the TC in line about 6.5 so it is a tad easier to lug around. I did throw the tupper ware stock away and replace it with a nice walnut one I made though and took of the FO sights and put on a blade and peep.Hate those plastic stocks. Probably not another around like it now.
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Two views of the Ohio-style .45 rifle I built. (Cherry stock, Getz barrel, Siler lock, Davis triggers.) All of the deer I killed with it were in the pre-digital camera era (pre-2006 for me). Guess I gotta fix that, ha ha.
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Custom built .50cal with 28" barrel, 1:48 twist. Loves 90gr pyrodex RS, wad, 250gr REAL conical.
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captchee that's some nice rifles. did you make your own possibles bag and horn. i've made some of my own bags. i've never made a powder horn though.
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captchee...........Very nice guns.
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Flint .45, most of the rest is irrelevant. 42" barrel and 7#4oz. A wand by any definition.
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captchee that's some nice rifles. did you make your own possibles bag and horn. i've made some of my own bags. i've never made a powder horn though. in that photo , the SXS and the turkey call are the only items i made Through the years ive made a lot of bags and horns . But those in the photo with my SXS are not ones I made . The bag was made By Allen Roberts . I have 2 of his bags the one in the photo and this one . The buffalo horn , powder horn was made by Jess Eblin and was a gift . captchee...........Very nice guns. thank you for the kind words
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Cap,every dang time I see pics of your artillery battery, I am forced to conclude that you Turbosuck Have ya stuck the barrel of that Hudson Valley Fowler up a ducks ass yet??
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cap real nice .makes me want to get back into reenacting. did it some back in my high school years. course i'd have to get all new outfit . kinda outgrown my old stuff after 30 years.
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Cap,every dang time I see pics of your artillery battery, I am forced to conclude that you Turbosuck Have ya stuck the barrel of that Hudson Valley Fowler up a ducks ass yet?? LOL sorry about that . as to the Hudson valley . . i haven�t had much time but for an early grouse hunt . it did well . Im just to far behind to be able to get out much . But Turkey season isn�t that far away . Im hopping to get out then saddlesore this Erichson rifle weighs very close to your Inline. As I recall it came in just under 7 lbs . it�s a 54 cal with a 39 inch barrel . here is a shot of the ballance check during the build I have built long rifles that weighed even less then your inline even though they carried 42 inch barrels . My Hudson Valley comes in at 8lbs and its got a 52 inch barrel in 28 gage. even heavy rifles when built properly so as to ballance correctly , are a real joy to carry
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cool stuff prairie. love the shootin block. i made one for my hawken too.
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I'm with all you guys too, 45 and 50 cal hawkens
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back several years ago, we went out with a pair of TC cherokees in .32's...good haul that day. rabbit gun... New Englander 12ga:
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I started out muzzleloading with a cheap Hawken .50 cal, sold it after a few years and went to an in-line. I like it fine, but it's just not the same as a traditional ML.
I've been hunting with BP cartridges in my 1860's era Hopkins and Allen hammer shotgun, but since Birdwatcher posted about his flinter shotgun at the dove hunt last September, I've been thinking about getting one of those...
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man that's a beautiful stock. gun porn!
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man that's a beautiful stock. gun porn! Gun porn indeed! We get a lot of that here... welcome to the 'Fire!
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