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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2070 on: November 13, 2014, 01:53:11 pm »
That's cool bub, bet youd rather see them riding bikes instead of bulls!
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Offline bubby

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2071 on: November 13, 2014, 02:02:53 pm »
Thanks Clint, you got that right Pearl
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Offline osage outlaw

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« Reply #2072 on: November 15, 2014, 08:53:20 pm »
Took my son out this evening for the opener of gun season.  He was using the same 16g single shot that I killed my first deer with.  We had a nice 2.5 year old buck come in at 30 yards.  He dropped the hammer and the buck spun around and took off.  We went and searched the area where he was standing.  I found his slug laying on the ground with a piece of osage bark stuck in it.  A clean miss for his first shot at a deer  :(   I was proud of him anyway.  He stayed calm and didn't get nervous.  Maybe he will have better luck next weekend.

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Offline Danzn Bar

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« Reply #2073 on: November 15, 2014, 09:04:06 pm »
Better luck next time......Clint remind your son,  just to squeeeeeeeeeeze the trigger... ;)  I know I had buck fever the first time I put sights on one 25 yrs ago, and I still have a little even this year....Tell him it happens.  deep breath, let half of it out, and squeeeeze.  :) ;)
Till next time,
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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2074 on: November 15, 2014, 09:04:44 pm »
Thats cool clint.... Brian
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2075 on: November 15, 2014, 09:10:28 pm »
Thanks Bill,  I'll tell him.

Brian, It would have been cooler to find the slug with blood on it   8)  It was a quick way to confirm a clean miss.  That is the second time I have found a slug someone missed a deer with.  I guess the trees on our place like to jump out in front of them  ;D
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Offline Marks

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2076 on: November 17, 2014, 12:35:02 pm »
Should have taken that Osage tree home and skinned it and quartered it just like you would have that deer.  ;)
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Offline JW_Halverson

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« Reply #2077 on: November 17, 2014, 07:36:23 pm »
Clean kill or a clean miss.  I'll take either one.  It's that stuff in between we all work to avoid. 

Better luck next time to the lad!  Sure glad he has a damn good Dad that is mentoring him thru the rites of passage to becoming a grown man. 
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Offline Eric Krewson

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« Reply #2078 on: November 18, 2014, 10:01:09 pm »
Just finished a 72 cal smooth bore patterned after one made in 1760. I took me a while to find out what load in it to get it to shoot a round ball accurately.

The gun is an American fowler of English influence that would have been carried by men of the upper north east section of America during the revolution. I made this gun with a 38" barrel so it would be a little more handy in the woods. Originals would have a barrel in excess of 46" and would have given a lot of red coats a dirt nap back in the day.

Took it to the woods this evening, it got the job done.

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Offline bubby

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2079 on: November 18, 2014, 11:09:41 pm »
very cool Eric, great looking deer and smokepole
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Offline YosemiteBen

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2080 on: November 19, 2014, 01:58:14 pm »
Very nice work Mr krewson! Nice rifle too! I can try to get a pic of one we have in our musuem in the NDN house diorama.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2081 on: November 19, 2014, 08:55:50 pm »
.72?  What's that, pert near an ounce and a half slug?  What the heck are you compensating for?   >:D

(Pssst, guys, Eric is really a huuuge Miley Cyrus fan.  He calls this gun "Wrecking Ball")

Took me a while to figure out was at the base of the buck's throat.  Finally the string gave it away, hehe.  I then quickly applied the palm of my hand to the forehead.
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2082 on: November 20, 2014, 12:11:47 am »
a .690 ball weighs 485 gr, a .700 weighs 511gr.
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Offline Stoker

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Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Reply #2083 on: November 20, 2014, 10:17:40 am »
Very nice Eric.. Congrats on the harvest.. Gun is a beuaty
Thanks Leroy
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Offline Eric Krewson

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« Reply #2084 on: November 26, 2014, 09:59:58 am »
Another one; I shot this doe yesterday with a .44 flintlock a friend gave me years ago when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. For the flinter guys, it has a Bill Large barrel, Bob Roller lock, the most striking piece of birds eye maple I have ever seen in a stock and will shoot through the same hole at 50 yards.

I need to get my shoulder fixed and wanted to fill the freezer first, done deal, I am off to see the surgeon in a few minutes.

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