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Flintlock Hunters
- bentfork
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Flintlock Hunters
Anybody here do much hunting with a flintlock muzzleloader?
Jason A.
1948 CUB (ser.# 326XX)
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Cub grader blade
Cub-193 moaldboard plow
Woods 59C belly mower
1948 CUB (ser.# 326XX)
sicklebar
Cub grader blade
Cub-193 moaldboard plow
Woods 59C belly mower
- Virginia Mike
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'52 DB "Super Power"
'56 DB "Big 5"
'62 DB "Super 600"
'37 McCormick Deering "LA" engine - Location: Stewartsville, Virginia
Re: Flintlock Hunters
While I am not into reinacting anymore, I still take my .32 squirrel rifle out every once in a while. I was going to build me a .62 flint smooth bore, but never got around to it.
Is PA still flint only in black powder season?
Is PA still flint only in black powder season?
Best,
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
- bentfork
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Re: Flintlock Hunters
We have an early season any style muzzleloader season and the late season is flintlock only and i love it. I've been wanting to find a squirrel rifle.
Jason A.
1948 CUB (ser.# 326XX)
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Cub grader blade
Cub-193 moaldboard plow
Woods 59C belly mower
1948 CUB (ser.# 326XX)
sicklebar
Cub grader blade
Cub-193 moaldboard plow
Woods 59C belly mower
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Re: Flintlock Hunters
Deleted post, too much like a unintended hijack....
- Virginia Mike
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- Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:21 pm
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- Tractors Owned: '49 Cub
'49 JD "B"
'79 JD 2040
'50 DB "Garden Tractor"
'52 DB "Super Power"
'56 DB "Big 5"
'62 DB "Super 600"
'37 McCormick Deering "LA" engine - Location: Stewartsville, Virginia
Re: Flintlock Hunters
bentfork wrote:We have an early season any style muzzleloader season and the late season is flintlock only and i love it. I've been wanting to find a squirrel rifle.
Mine is a Cabela's "Blue Ridge" rifle made by Pedersoli. Not bad for the money. Jackie Brown gunmaker makes some nice ones If you don't want to whittle out your own.
Best,
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
- bentfork
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Re: Flintlock Hunters
I have a 50. caliber Traditions Pa. pellet that i have loaded down to around 40 grains of ffg to whack a squarrels. It just crushes em at about 50 yards and don't mess up any meat. Sometimes it just knocks the wind out of em and ya gotta run up and gettem before they get goin again.
Jason A.
1948 CUB (ser.# 326XX)
sicklebar
Cub grader blade
Cub-193 moaldboard plow
Woods 59C belly mower
1948 CUB (ser.# 326XX)
sicklebar
Cub grader blade
Cub-193 moaldboard plow
Woods 59C belly mower
- Virginia Mike
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 1300
- Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:21 pm
- Zip Code: 24095
- Tractors Owned: '49 Cub
'49 JD "B"
'79 JD 2040
'50 DB "Garden Tractor"
'52 DB "Super Power"
'56 DB "Big 5"
'62 DB "Super 600"
'37 McCormick Deering "LA" engine - Location: Stewartsville, Virginia
Re: Flintlock Hunters
A .50 is more versatile, and probaly as period correct as the small bores. As most of the big game was killed out of the East, the .32 and .36 became more popular to save lead and powder. Some rifles went down to .25 cal.. They hung on as so called "Hog Rifles" used to start proceedings on butchering day; while the shotgun took over the hunting field.
With a .50 you have to "Bark" the squirrel; that is shoot just under him to kill him by concussion. Davy Crockett stuff.
Your rifle will burn cleaner if you use fffg.. Clean with soap and hot water, and lube with bore butter. Stay away from petroleum based lubes; they make tar when they burn and cause hard loading.
I have learned that Jackie Brown has had family medical problems and may not be building guns anymore, sad.
With a .50 you have to "Bark" the squirrel; that is shoot just under him to kill him by concussion. Davy Crockett stuff.
Your rifle will burn cleaner if you use fffg.. Clean with soap and hot water, and lube with bore butter. Stay away from petroleum based lubes; they make tar when they burn and cause hard loading.
I have learned that Jackie Brown has had family medical problems and may not be building guns anymore, sad.
Best,
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
- KETCHAM
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Re: Flintlock Hunters
While mine is not a flintlock ,I wish it was.Didn't get to do anything here this fall,next year I hope.Mine is a .54 caliber Scout.Thompson.Short barrel good in brush.Kevin
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Re: Flintlock Hunters
I have really been looking to build up a flint lock, I have an inline, but i would like something a little more authentic. Any of you guys start with a kit ect.?
BILL
- Virginia Mike
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'79 JD 2040
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'52 DB "Super Power"
'56 DB "Big 5"
'62 DB "Super 600"
'37 McCormick Deering "LA" engine - Location: Stewartsville, Virginia
Re: Flintlock Hunters
Kits are fun and save a lot of work. Try Dixie Gun Works, or Track of the Wolf.
Best,
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
Mike
Tractors are made to work!
"A Cub will do as much as a team of horses,.. More in hot weather!" - C. W. Spradlin 1909-1994
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Re: Flintlock Hunters
I just did a 3 gun purchase and i got a thompson 54cal renegade with double set triggers, a traditions 50cal inline and a winchester 50cal inline also. I got these very cheap and got into blackpowder stuff all at once. I really like the 54cal renegade.
I've been told in the past that only real men shoot blackpowder guns.
I've been told in the past that only real men shoot blackpowder guns.
I'm technically misunderstood at times i guess its been this way my whole life so why should it change now.
- grumpy
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Re: Flintlock Hunters
BigBill wrote:
I've been told in the past that only real men shoot blackpowder guns.
Thats true. I still have the scars to prove it. It's my story & I'm stickin to it. Grump
David Dee Mock-Leonard
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
Some days it's not worth chewing through the restraints
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
Some days it's not worth chewing through the restraints
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