Originally Posted by Ridge Runner

wasn't the hunters it was they're wives, grandad always kept a raw ball in his shirt pocket, if he missed a shot, he would recharge, stick his shirtail over the muzzle, get the ball from his pocket, start it and use his patchknife to just cut the patch off...grandma had to patch his shirt! she made mention of having to patch his shirts even after her 100th birthday in 2000, grandpa had been dead 50 years by then.
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