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I've got my dads' model '97 which is pre 64 so it's a good one ,all machined not stamped.It served the old boy well .I haven't personaly shot it in over 30 years myself but it was fairly accurate at 100 yards . As I said before a muzzle loader used to be cheap to shoot .I supplied all my...

The Marlin is probabley the better of the two if compaired to the Winchester M 1894 .The Winchester however is the most recognized . I'm not certain if the design for the M'94 was Oliver Winchesters design from other earlier lever action rifles or if John Browning had anything to do with it...

That muzzle loader will spit them out just as accurate as that brush gun which has an arc like a morter shell .It's lays them out faster though .Known fact ,more deer have been taken with a 30:30 than all the rest combined .At 80-100 yards though it really doesn't make that much difference .

You can pretty well tell when a white tail gets spooked .That tail comes up and those ears start moving .If that white flag goes up with a couple of feet stomps they are gone . If the wind is right and they don't hear or see you they might walk right in on you . Fact I had about a dozen...

They seem to have no fear of machinery .You can be in the field on a tractor and they just look up and then go about their business . Crawl down off that thing they make like the rooster and get the flock out of Dodge .Mucho rapido ! That's one of the reasons they hunt elk off horse back or a...

To "spook "a deer they have to detect you with at least two senses .Smelling ,hearing ,sight ,two out of three . Only one they try very hard to get another one to pick up .After a period of time if they don't detect with another scent they just go about their business if you aren't there . Old...

Yeah they are to size of a medium sized horse .They certainly aren't like deer . I was sitting on a rock on red and white mountain in Colorado smoking a cigarette and a damned cow walked right up to me .Within 15 feet no less .Nose twitching smelling the air like I didn't even exist .No way a...

I have never seen a bull elk in the wild .Lotsa cow elk but no bull .Rather large ,they have an arse like a Georgia mule .

Different type of weapon .During the revolutionary war they lined up in ranks and fired volley shots at one another and the last man standing won ,well sort of .Did the same stupid BS during the cival war ,even into wwI and WWII . Going back to the revolutionary war both the Yanks and Brits...

They got pretty advanced with black powder during the cival war .One example is the British Whitworth .It shot a specially shaped projectile with an effective range of 1000 yards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitworth_rifle It was a banded construction much like the Zouave I own but could be...

A guy I used to work with built a small replica of a Dahligren gun ,naval thing .It was around 1.25-1.5 inch bore .Well Jimmy too was somewhat of an idiot .He used to pack a couple ounces of black powder,dry newspaper then wet newspaper hammer it in tight and torch it off with a length of cannon...

Oh trust me black powder will reach out and touch them alright .I've shot targets at 200yards with that old 58 and it has an arc like a morter round .Longest deer shot was maybe 80 yards .

The funiest black powder story that comes mind is a brother of a friend of mine .Good old Huey was really intelligent about most things .He was an achitect,now retired in Colorado .Huey had no common sense though .Well he bought him a big old 50 cal Hawkins and before too long stuck the damn ram...

The worst for powder fouling are patched round ball types like the KY long rifles .About half a dozen shots you'd best swab the barrel .The big bore conical unpatched bullets like my cival war era rifle can probabley take 40 shots before they start to protest . Now a tip ,after you pop a round...

I've got a cival war replica of a Remington 1842 I think nicknamed a Zouaze .58 caliber 540 grain maxi ball .80 grains of black powder .Has the same knock down at 100 yards as a 30:06 with a 220 grain soft nose .Good grief that thing will knock down a moose and the north and south shot each...