Dang It, Gander & Cayugad
 

A pox on you guys for messing with my head! ;)

All of this flintlock talk is really getting to me. I'm been having a hankering for a Savage Model 40, 22 Hornet, and have just about put aside the four-hundred bucks necessaryto do the deed. Now I find myself bopping through the net looking at flintlocks. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

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:D:D glad we could help. I'll add fuel to your fire tomorrow when i set up my 100 yard target.

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[&o][&o][&o] gee whiz. I don't want you to do something you don't want to do. You don't need a flintlock. All that smoke and flash and boom. You don't need a flintlock. Believe me, you don't need a flintlock. Hope that helps... :D

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You guys are a really BIGhelp!

There's a "Great Southern"gun show about five miles from my house this week-end. We seldom see flintlocks at the shows around here. Kinda hope I don't see one Saturday.The temptation might be too much and I still won't have thatHornet, which I really want.

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Hornet Shmornet[:'(]


F L I N T L O C K:):):D;)

Da'rool, Da'rool

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Go Ahead! Pile on. It doesn't hurt any more.

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That is my newest flintlock. It is a .50 caliber Tradition's Woodsman Hawkins with a 1:48 twist. A real good shooter and very fast lock. Just in case you need to know what they look like... :D:D:D

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:eek::eek::eek::eek:

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2187271


just in case you like to look. This one has a removable breech plug, will handle pellets if you like, even 150 grains. But you really do not want one.. so it should not make any difference.

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Let's see if this helps....:D

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Those are some beautiful rifles there.... very nice nchawkeye.

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A word to the wise.

When SHE says "you really don't need a flintlock", it's not a good idea to reply "I really don't need a wife either, but I have one don't I?"

FLASH! BOOM! SMOKE! - just like a flintlock!

Just kidding. What she actually said was "why don't you get one now, and the other one for Christmas?. What a woman!

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Thanks, Cay...I'm sure glad you showed me how to do this...Good thing I saved the instructions....

I've been shooting a bit this summer, when my wife and youngest daughter get back from their trip, I'll try to post a few targets...

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I'm a fan of Thompson/Centers myself.

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See, these things are more popular then anyone might have thought. Granted shooting the inlines is fun, but a flintlock is a blast. Actually I like shooting both. Although it is hot today, so the range timewill be a short shoot..

You got a great wife. That one is a keeper.



:D

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If you don't quit talking about the flint locks you will have me looking and in trouble again. I haven't got time to shoot what I have now.

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It ain't ever smart to stir up more snakes than you can kill.

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Well heres the kentucky @ 75 yards. 60 grains Triple 7, .010 patch and home cast .490 roundball. 1st shot i jumped the trigger and wasnt ready, #2 and #3 were off hand shots that measure 2 3/4" center/center and # 4 shot was my final shot while sitting on a log and using my possibles bag for a rest. So far i think im really going to just use triple 7 in this rifle. I used to use 110 grains fffg goex to get 1 1/2" groups @ 100 but im only using 60 grains here and shooting 5/8" inch groups if i measured off #2 and #4 shot. Im seeing lots of promise with this powder in my flintlock. I'll up my charge to 80 grains tomorrow and give it another go @ 75, but use my shooting rest this time so i know what exactly its doing. It sometime sucks finding new loads for your rifles. Makes it 4 times as hard to decide which rifle to take hunting lol.

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I sawthis rattlesnakelast weekend up at my brothers when we driving to a new spot to bow hunt this fall. His body was a fat as my forearm. Huge snake for Pennasylvania. Chap Gleason

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Semisane, they got me as well.:)
And darn it all my boy likes them too!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/HuntAway/106-0663_IMG.jpg

and you can get them in left handed versions as well. I had to get another one cause this one got "claimed" on me.:D

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HuntAway.. that is a cool picture. Nothing like touching one of them off...

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We had some fun that day. It was a nice winter day around 30' F, light wind and sunny.
The water bottle was a "Bad Guy" that he had to get quick. He got "em" on the 2nd shot. First shot was just a tad high as I was behind him saying he' gonna get ya. LOL Got him a little excited I guess.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/HuntAway/106-0667_IMG-1.jpg

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very nice guns guys

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Treasure those times. Your'e a rich man.

What's all of that white stuff. It got down to around 30' F for a day or two here last season too.

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That is one happy looking young man there... HuntAway, shooting with him would make it all that much more fun. What flintlock rifle does he have? :D:D:D

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LOL, A day or two?????

You Southern Boy's crack me up when you talk about cold weather.:D

Here's something for your perspective. My first year in the Canadian Army ('80), we went on an exercise in January. The average temperature for the two weeks was -40'C/-40'F (they're the same at -40) with the coldest at -55'C for a day or two. And get this..... We slept in tents!!!!!!!!! [:@]

And yes I am a lucky man. Thank you!

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He claimed the Lyman Deerstalker but has eyes on my GPR as well. Greedy lil' bugger. lol

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[>:] i think i may have found another mountain rifle to buy......[&o]