What are you hunting/fishing?
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ND Mike Thompson makes a great product that I like, but just don’t like the idea of the in-lines. As you indicated, too much like you regular smokeless rifle. I ran across a guy several years ago that made his own, from scratch, flintlocks. I got to shoot a few of them & it was amazing, wonderful. It takes a real craftsman to create all that from scratch & have it work. I have always wanted to get me a Kentucky long rifle in .32 caliber, but have never found it yet. I made some CVA .50 caliber kits a long time ago & really like them, but the .32 would really be nice. I also restored an old Hopkins & Allen 12 gauge a long time ago that was the best shooting little shotgun ever, but I do not shoot it at all any more.
calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
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calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
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Funny you say that, I was watching the new season of MeatEater on Netflix. One episode they are hunting in Pennsylvania during their flint lock deer season! It’s a 2/3 week season after Christmas every year and any deer is open season. It was pretty neat to watch as they had to do a deer drive to get them moving around.
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ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
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Funny you say that, I was watching the new season of MeatEater on Netflix. One episode they are hunting in Pennsylvania during their flint lock deer season! It’s a 2/3 week season after Christmas every year and any deer is open season. It was pretty neat to watch as they had to do a deer drive to get them moving around.
HerbcoFood shooting a flintlock is so much fun! I’m pretty envious of that flintlock only season that PA has. ND muzzleloader season was intended to be a tradition season only but then Knight muzzleloaders threatened the State with a discriminatory lawsuit and our legislators folded under the pressure and allowed in-lines. I might propose an idea to a legislator to divide our annual muzzloeader tags to half traditional style and half modern in-line. At least then maybe I will get another muzzy tag. Its been 9 years since I’ve had one.
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HerbcoFood shooting a flintlock is so much fun! I’m pretty envious of that flintlock only season that PA has. ND muzzleloader season was intended to be a tradition season only but then Knight muzzleloaders threatened the State with a discriminatory lawsuit and our legislators folded under the pressure and allowed in-lines. I might propose an idea to a legislator to divide our annual muzzloeader tags to half traditional style and half modern in-line. At least then maybe I will get another muzzy tag. Its been 9 years since I’ve had one.
ND Mike I think it’s Wyoming could be Colorado that has a muzzleloader season that also had some pretty rigorous specs on the gun you use. I know of them is open sights.
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calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
That should be a fun and useful project.
When I was in high school I got a Thomson-Center .50 caliber Hawken rifle kit for my birthday. I put it together in shop class, fitting, and finishing the stock and polishing and browning the metalwork. (good luck trying to do that in public school shop class today).At the time, the movie Jeremiah Johnson had just come out in which the lead actor gets a Hawken rifle when he heads to the mountains. It also coincided with Nebraska opening a primitive weapon deer season. It was a fun to learn how to shoot and hunt with a traditional front-loader. Still have it and hunt with it today, although I also have an in-line .50 cal as well.
Nebraska gradually liberalized its "primitive " weapon deer season to where in-line percussion rifles and optics are all permitted. I am ok with it as it adds another excuse to get out with another weapon to deer hunt.
Paul
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ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
That should be a fun and useful project.
When I was in high school I got a Thomson-Center .50 caliber Hawken rifle kit for my birthday. I put it together in shop class, fitting, and finishing the stock and polishing and browning the metalwork. (good luck trying to do that in public school shop class today).At the time, the movie Jeremiah Johnson had just come out in which the lead actor gets a Hawken rifle when he heads to the mountains. It also coincided with Nebraska opening a primitive weapon deer season. It was a fun to learn how to shoot and hunt with a traditional front-loader. Still have it and hunt with it today, although I also have an in-line .50 cal as well.
Nebraska gradually liberalized its "primitive " weapon deer season to where in-line percussion rifles and optics are all permitted. I am ok with it as it adds another excuse to get out with another weapon to deer hunt.
processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
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processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
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ND Mike you look like you are right out of the 18th century in that picture. The cross-sticks are a nice touch, and practical.
Paul
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ND Mike you look like you are right out of the 18th century in that picture. The cross-sticks are a nice touch, and practical.
processhead thanks! I really miss doing that stuff. I need to get back to it.
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craigrice both of my kids love sausage making. Even some of their friends like to get in on the action.
cdavis glad to here it encourage all of them !
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ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
That should be a fun and useful project.
When I was in high school I got a Thomson-Center .50 caliber Hawken rifle kit for my birthday. I put it together in shop class, fitting, and finishing the stock and polishing and browning the metalwork. (good luck trying to do that in public school shop class today).At the time, the movie Jeremiah Johnson had just come out in which the lead actor gets a Hawken rifle when he heads to the mountains. It also coincided with Nebraska opening a primitive weapon deer season. It was a fun to learn how to shoot and hunt with a traditional front-loader. Still have it and hunt with it today, although I also have an in-line .50 cal as well.
Nebraska gradually liberalized its "primitive " weapon deer season to where in-line percussion rifles and optics are all permitted. I am ok with it as it adds another excuse to get out with another weapon to deer hunt.
processhead I am not sure I could even graduate from prison today! I remember even in Jr. High shop we would have a Mountain Man thing every year. Some teachers, including myself were pretty serious about it & we had black powder, long knives, long bows, etc. However, there was nothing to worry about & everyone had the utmost respect for everyone else. Like to hear tell of that in the modern day prisons of today. On the other hand, I just feel like the in-lines & I think Knight was one of the first perhaps, are just too much like our regular rifles, in way too many ways. On the other hand, I hear the hunting rifle of the future is more like an assault rifle. I guess I have just become a dinosaur.
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processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
ND Mike I have not done any of it in nearly fifty years now, but it is a lot of fun & LOOKING GOOD with that Buffalo Gun!
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processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
ND Mike that is awesome
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ND Mike I have not done any of it in nearly fifty years now, but it is a lot of fun & LOOKING GOOD with that Buffalo Gun!
calldoctoday thanks! I even have a buffler robe at home.
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calldoctoday thanks! I even have a buffler robe at home.
ND Mike Wow, now that is amazing!
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processhead I am not sure I could even graduate from prison today! I remember even in Jr. High shop we would have a Mountain Man thing every year. Some teachers, including myself were pretty serious about it & we had black powder, long knives, long bows, etc. However, there was nothing to worry about & everyone had the utmost respect for everyone else. Like to hear tell of that in the modern day prisons of today. On the other hand, I just feel like the in-lines & I think Knight was one of the first perhaps, are just too much like our regular rifles, in way too many ways. On the other hand, I hear the hunting rifle of the future is more like an assault rifle. I guess I have just become a dinosaur.
calldoctoday said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
On the other hand, I hear the hunting rifle of the future is more like an assault rifle. I guess I have just become a dinosaur.calldoctoday I felt compelled to harvest a cull deer with my AR a few years ago just so I could say it’s hunting rifle.
We are not dinosaurs, we are renaissance men. lol
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ND Mike Your welcome. But, it takes a bunch of love for historical purposes to get it right.
zbigjeff that is true!
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I had this little kitty slip by my stand a few minutes ago. It sure spooked the does I was watching.
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