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Not a Shiloh belt. Just one I bought off of e-bay, but it has served me well for several years now. No complaints. I saw that, and I would like to make it. Mic is a good friend and I would like to see him again. Hell, any chance to burn some black powder would be welcome. However, I am working on a ...

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95fan wrote:Fantastic! I especially like the blood stains on the cartridge belt.

Well, I really did not intend to stain it so, but I am a hunter and it is appropriate.

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Well, there is an alterior motive here too. Daddy wants a small dog to help with blood trails on wounded deer.

I think I am narrowed down to a beagle or a jagdterrior. Maybe a wire haired dachshund.

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Imagine if you were sitting next to this guy at the range. You did not load his ammo, you may not even know him. But you could get seriously injured through no fault of your own. Makes wearing safety glasses make a lot of sense even if you are not actually shooting.

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I have a nephew that was bitten on the face by a cowdog. He was very young at the time and now he still fears and mistrusts all dogs. I would rather avoid that with Jaeger.

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that is a beautiful combo. I always enjoying seeing pictures of big nose Kate. who did the work on your .45? kinda looks like Bowen work Mike, That is one of the guns we did for the 20th Anniversary of the Shootists and it is a .44 spl. Dustin Linebaugh did all the work, including the elephant ivor...

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I'll bet they poop a wheelbarrow full a week!

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That had to hurt!

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Boys,

Much as I like big dogs (particularly big labrador retrievers) this is going to have to be a small good natured dog.

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We used to hunt squirrels all the time. A good dog and a sharp eye will get you a bag full of bushytails!

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I have been looking at pound dogs and I had intended on adopting one. But I must tell you that many of the pound dogs around here show signs of pit bull or chow heritage. Neither is what I really need for my boy. I probably looked at better than 100 pound dogs so far and I am not encouraged by what ...

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I am really thinking hard about a jagterrier as I had a cross bred terrior when I was a kid and he was a very versitile friend and companion. http://germanjagdterrier.net/the_cumberland_pack_002.htm I would also consider what we used to call a "Feist" but I don't see them around anymore. A...

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JerryB wrote:Scott thanks for this post. It must be enjoyable work digging up this history. Those are three real beauties, I would hate to face one.

I just wish I had more time!

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Airguns can be very good tools, but you have to get out in the weather and changing light conditions too.

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BTW boys, I am not going to get into political discussions or even read them anymore. It just is not worth the hassle. I don't particularly care what you think the cause of the American Civil War was or what you want to call it. It happened too long ago for me to be too worried about re-fighting it....

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Think about what a good man who knows how to use one of these can do with it:

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I am working on an article regarding the legal history of the Bowie Knife in Texas. I thought you might find some of this interesting. The carrying of a Bowie Knife was not prohibited until 1871 as part of the carpetbagger "reforms" following the War of Northern Agression. But, what is not...

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The REAL problem is our failure to differentiate between CRIME and VICE . Crime is a legitimate government matter. There is an actual VICTIM (not just some hypothetical 'offended' individual, or generic 'harm to societal norms'). Crimes violate the basic tenets of 'Don't Murder, Don't Steal, Don't ...

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I reckon now that I know iron sights are usles I better stop shooting cans at 40 to 50 yards with 2 inch and 4 inch six guns and stop hitting things with my rifles, darned old raggedy worthless iron sights. Now I suppose I need to buy scopes for all of my handguns and rifles. Oh woe is me. Now Jerr...

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Then again, you are using open sights. Open sights are just barely better than no sights at all, IMHO. They require you to try to look at three things in line at one time. Your eye does not like this idea and refuses to do it. You have to look at the notch in the rear sight, put the bead in the not...

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Scott, remind me at what distance you were shooting the "Levergun Challenge" please? I've GOT to get more organized this year and get up to the range more often. I'm supposed to be an official member of the Colombian Federation of Shooting Sports (am waiting for my membership card) so per...

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Then again, you are using open sights. Open sights are just barely better than no sights at all, IMHO. They require you to try to look at three things in line at one time. Your eye does not like this idea and refuses to do it. You have to look at the notch in the rear sight, put the bead in the not...

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It is not easy, but it can be done and if I can do it, anybody can. About 3 years ago, I started working hard on this. Now I hunt exclusively with iron sights and black powder cartridges. I kill just as many if not more deer than I used to with a scoped gun. Natural point of aim. Look hard at the fr...

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Welcome Brother!!!

God bless you on your jorney!

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Andrew, I kinda wonder why it bothers you at all? This is a 10 year old article written by a man that you don't know about another man that you won't ever know. I met Elmer Keith only once, but I enjoyed the meeting. I know Ross, and I call him a friend. Live and let live. Ross did not write that to...

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The scene where they are fixing to rob the bank in Minnesota shows bare barrels and short saddle scabbards with the barrel out in the open.

Now, I know it is a movie, but I wonder if anybody would do such a foolish thing? Kinda hard on the barrel and front sight. Might get some mud in there too!

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Thanks for the story and the photos.

Good job!

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ScottT,minute of paperplate will work :D !Sore shoulder the saiga I own in 7.62x39 is a SOG hi-cap conversion with pistol grip.The quality is comparable to a Arsenal stamp reciever AK for allot less clams.Picked mine up in a pawnshop for $200 in 2002.The hi-cap conversion is just a file away on the...

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I am no gun snob. When my .357 Marlin was stolen, I replaced it with this:

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One night we had a rather industrious man in a wheelchair that went on a crime spree. He shot and shot at a number of people and hijacked cars and robbed folks at gunpoint. I came around a corner and there he was in the middle of the street with several patrol cars and a news crew shining lights on ...

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There is just something special about loosing a wooden arrow from a traditional bow and watching its flight into the target.

You guys are making it hard for me not to get the old equipment out!

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Let's look at a situation that would make the use of the rifle purely defensive. A couple of years ago, a gentleman up in the northeast took on some hunters and killed some of them with an SKS. The hunters were armed, but apparently did not respond with gunfire. Certainly, I think they would have be...

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Is he wrong? It does seem far fetched to need a rifle in a purely defensive situation. Yes, in so many ways. I should clarify, I'm talking from a legal standpoint not a survival one. I dont know & sure hope I never find out but in most instances I can think up I can see a prosecutor looking at ...

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I'm not sure smoothness of the bore is the issue, but the weight of the barrel might be. My dedicated precision rifle will shoot into 1/2 inch with Hornady commercial ammo. It will do better than an inch with some ball ammo, so when I take it to the range, I typically will set paper plates at 100, 2...

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I feel for you friend.

Not everyone who calls themselves a gunsmith has any sense of pride in his work.

I only take my guns to guys I know like Hamilton Bowen, John or Dustin Linebaugh, Milt Sparks......people who KNOW why I take my guns to them and I can trust to do the right thing.

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Thnk about this. When he was 19, he was running a company that supplied ammo (mostly pistol ammo) to certain agencies and he was not old enough to even buy a box himself!

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Bagwell will talk your ears off, but his knives are worth every penny.

He is talking about making us (he and I)a pair of damascus bowies with some engraving by our friend Riggs (if I can talk Jim into it). Knives we would never part with.

I have some really fine hunting partners.

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Leverdude wrote:Is he wrong?

It does seem far fetched to need a rifle in a purely defensive situation.

Yes, in so many ways.

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I used to shoot a Howard Hill longbow, a Big Five if I recall correctly. It pulls 90lbs at my draw length and it is just a little too much bow for me now. I quit shooting it when I had to move into an apartment for law school and I need to start up again now that I own a home with a big back yard. M...

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I think about that pistol/rifle saying every now and then, and it seems to me that if perps are close to you, your rifle wouldn't be any better than the pistol, perhaps worse. The only way it makes sense is if there's a war situation, where you know the enemy on sight. Or if you're Bonnie and Clyde...

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I don't have a lot of choice in the matter. Of course I shoot black powder in my main hunting rifle and I keep that clean, but I do leave a coat of mineral oil in the bore after I clean. Funny thing though, when I clean on the range, I shoot from a clean dry barrel for the beginning of every string....

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My rifle does not shoot any 300-400gr bullet that I have tried well. It definitely prefers the longer, nose-riding bullets. It shoots 20-1 about as well as 30-1 and I really cannot tell the difference on paper. On game, the 30-1 is a better deal. I often wonder if I could get by with 40-1. Wife and ...

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Thanks for sharing your experiences with this. I often wonder when people mention this about what is really going on with their rifle. I know it happens because too many people report exactly the same thing. I shoot my rifle groups from a clean bore for the first shot. Even my black powder loads. Th...

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I would send the gun to TC. Their turnaround is very quick and even the best manufacturer gets something wrong from time to time.

Good luck with this and let us know how it turns out.

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This is a timely topic. I have never had difficulty getting my TCs to go off. Flint or caplock, they seem to have no difficulty. I wonder what the inside of the powder chamber looks like? I just got a call from a friend who wants me to go hunt mule deer in New Mexico with a front stuffer this Octobe...

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Scott Nice pics as always. I see you are planning a Buff hunt with Big Nose Kate. Will you place your shot/s with the same thinking, on the shoulder when broadside, between the shoulders when on an angle?. I am going after a meat Buff with my 45-90 Sharps and was wondering your opinion based on the...

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This is the best rifle Winchester/USRA ever made.

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These sayings, like many others that one can come up with ("beware the man with one gun....comes immediately to mind) have a grain of truth to them. That truth is what keeps them around and why we remember them. But it is dangerous to base your mindset with regard to the use of a firearm in a s...

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Looking for a dog for my boy

Legal history of the Bowie Knife.....applies to guns too.

Watching "The Long Riders"

I just love this photo!

"The pistol is to fight your way back to a rifle....&qu