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    TPS M6 Survival Rifle

    I agree, and the only reason that I got the .357 version, is that it's now legal in my county for deer, when previously for fifty years of my life, my county and the neighboring counties were muzzleloader or shotgun only, for deer. IF it was for an actual survival scenario on a long wilderness...
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    TPS M6 Survival Rifle

    Here are some Photos folks... LD
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    TV Jerk Charged for Numerous Hunting Violations

    Is this guy and his wife Mr. and Mrs. Joe-Sixpack, making fly by night videos and posting these on the internet hoping the platform will pay him because he has a lot of subscribed viewers OR is this a guy and his wife that have a few folks on his show's production staff? There is a HUGE...
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    Copper bullets and Antique Rifles

    Look into casting your own round ball from tin/bismuth alloy from Rotometals. "Copper only" ? I've looked and I can't find any state regs that say that but several say no use of lead. Bismuth/tin alloy meets that requirement, and is also quite heavy, so terminal ballistics should be similar...
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    TP for making Black Powder?

    Ah I think they tested Cottonelle and Scotts and the best was Cottonelle LD
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    TPS M6 Survival Rifle

    Funny you should mention "red dot"... you can removed the flip sights and mount in their place a short weaver platform for a red dot. That's next on my list of stuff to try. I have the platform in place, I'm waiting on the red dot to arrive. LD
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    TPS M6 Survival Rifle

    So the only thread that I found on the TPS M6 "survival rifle" was from four years ago, I just bought one that's .357 Magnum over .410. The .410 barrel is fitted with a screw-in choke matching a standard Invector choke, and the rifle came with a choke wrench. Sights were a flip, peep and V...
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    Rain again.......jerky day!!!!!!

    DANG! ROAD TRIP! LD
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    Inline muzzleloader for hunting?

    An old New England Firearms Handi rifle in .45 inline is what I own, as although it's a re-engineered single shot break action..., it's antique-ish. Mine uses a #11 cap, and was the early version where ifin you have a misfire, you have to wait a bit, and then point the breech away from you...
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    CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GARBAGE?

    Mike Beliveau aka duelist1954, who makes videos on black powder AND modern guns, has been ordered by his local township to stop shooting on his rural property aka what Mike calls on his videos "Duelist Den", because Mike has no house on the property (and because it's land in a conservation area...
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    The Double Ball load.

    You might find it not legal for hunting, depending on the game. Thompson Center once-upon-a-time published double ball data for the .45 caliber version of their Hawken. That information was soon dropped from the manual. A Double ball I've been told is the old "loaded for bear" loading, and...
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    Muzzle loaders

    I agree as the lock clearly does not go with the lock mortise. I would not be surprised if most of this gun was intact once, at JP Bannerman's, and somebody there found a lock that would fit it, put it together and sold it as such. Likely a very inexpensive 12 gauge for putting meat on the...
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    Rifled slug in smoothbore

    Depends on whether you load a wad and a bare ball followed by a wad, OR you do a patched ball. You want the ball as close to bore diameter if it's "naked", or you want a fairly good fitting patch and ball combo. Some folks report even better results loading a wad, followed by "flower petal...
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    Muzzleloader vs modern cartridge hunting

    So in 1867 a guy named James Forsyth wrote a book, The Sporting Rifle and Its Projectiles. He was used to going for dangerous game, India elephant, India Rhino, tiger, as well as other very large game such as Nilgai. Even though he wanted a flat shooting muzzleloader that would reach out 200...
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    Favorite Black powder firearm- What is it?

    Cabin Creek, Pennsylvania Mountain Rifle, 38" swamped barrel, flintlock in .54. LD
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