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    Did you ever wonder about Civil War paper cartriges? Here is a brief over view with picts..

    For those of us that do not shoot muzzle loading black powder guns here is how they work; A rifle is loaded from the muzzle,(the shooty end) :lol: with a measured charge of black powder. The projectile is then inserted into the muzzle and rammed down tight onto the powder charges with ramrod. If...
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    I have a question about Elson's visit this spring. I am thinking of taking him to a very old gold mining site that is most likely unhunted. It is the

    The place was a very active gold mine in the late 1800's and even has some of the original structures left somewhat standing. You have to go over some bad road in very steep mountains to get there. That is not the problem however. A few years back some elk hunters were poking around the ruins...
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    How about a little forum participation in a Happy Thanksgiving post. Post in the subject line so we can read them without opening something. I will st

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    Hey Mags, I have a test for you....:lol:

    A busy executive was tired of having no time to spend detecting. He found out about a company that could make a clone to do his work for him so he would have more free time. All went well with the cloning process and before long his clone was doing more and more of his work. The clone was so...
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    If you like deer hunting, you have to look at this buck I just "Injuned " up on. I only shot him with my camera so we all can share in his beauty. Wha

    I had a herd of 21 deer in my yard when I came home from work just now and there was a monster buck in the crowd. I got my camera and tried to sneek up on him for a photo. It was a little hard with all the does and lesser bucks on a high state of alert. I belly crawled in the gravel and got very...
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    :thumbup: :thumbup: I just recieved my major award in the mail!! Thank you Vernon! :thumbup: :thumbup:

    Very nice prize and a great way to display it as well. Vernon, you all are class. Thank you again for the contest and for the wonderful Civil War display. When Nancy called me today to tell me it had arrived I was talking to one of my builders on a job in Boise. I got all happy and started...
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    Nancy and I made it to the under water ghost town. I have not been there since Elson and Falk went with me last year. It was worth the trip! :thumbup:

    The heat got to the to southern gentlemen last year up at this place and we did not stay very long, but Elson did find his spur here. This is the first trip up here since last Sept. with the dream team. We have been hunting this place off and on for several years and the site has produced some...
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    Obama wants to steer this country in a new direction.....

    Just try to figure out what direction that may be. :mad: [attachment 107949 obamamobile.jpg]
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    I don't have any detecting gold to show tonight. but here is some real gold. You gotta check out this sunset! :clap:

    It started out looking like we might have a better than average sunset so I went out on my patio and took a pre-sunset shot of the clouds and sun that were building up to quite a show. The only colors in this shot were blues and whites but it was still pretty. <center> [attachment 107590...
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    I read the forum this morning and posted some replies. The forum is NOT the same as it was this morning and a lot has been edited. What the heck is go

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    I got such a kick out of these photos I wanted to share them with you. Have you seen an 8 year old eat her first choke cherry? :lol:

    We took the g-kids to the woods a few weeks ago to hike, catch lizards, ride four-wheelers, and hunt for berries. The kids enjoyed the huckleberries and the thimbleberries, but Anika and I found a patch of choke cherries. They are nice and red and have a pit and all that, but choke cherries did...
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    Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you a clean and non-smelly P1853 (Drumroll please)...

    I used enough cotton rags and cleaning products to clean up a small city but it is done. I started the process with denatured alcohol, WD-40, Hoppes no,9,copper wool, steel wool, orange oil, more WD-40, and finished up the cleaning with plumbers waterless hand cleaner. What a mess, but it came...
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    I have completed the P1853 and I am pleased with the results. I will post some pict when I get time to take some. :thumbup:

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    Today is my birthday and I had a little early morning gift. When I got up and looked our my back window there was a nude swimmer in my pool!

    Never a dull monent around here. We put in this pool ten years ago and this was a first. When I looked out the window a doe and her twin fawns were in the back yard. The unusual thing about this was one of the fawns jumped into my pool! The little thing was swimming around and trying to get out...
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    P1853 fresh from the shipping box. (Caution: These photos contain images that my not be suitable for those easily offended by yak grease and filth,) :

    I must admit that I was almost afraid to open the box after that rifle that Badger posted, but under all the mung and drool (that's motocross talk :rofl:) there is a solid and complete rifle! The photos show a lot of nasty stuff that looks like flaws but under those 150 years of crud it is a...
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    My 1853 came tonight! It is in FAR better shape than I hoped for and I think it will clean up real nice. I took a bunch of before photos and will post

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    I had a nice talk with Elson...

    He was trying to buy a new generator as his failed. There was a semi truck with a big load in town and he was doing his best to buy one while talking to me. As others have reported, they had some property damage. He said it was a rough one this time. The winds in his area were reported too be 95...
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    I just ordered a big hunk of yak grease with 1853 enfield inside. Sort of a Nepalese box of Cracker Jacks. I now await my prize. OH BOY! Filth. :thumb

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    I found me some real goodies! Non-detecting, but what a treasure! Mags, you'll like this. :)

    One of the homes we are remodeling was a real goldmine for me today. The new owners were throwing away a bunch of stuff that the former owner (passed away) no longer needed and they did not want. In the trash trailer were over a thousand 33 1/3 L.P. records! Every thing from the 20's jazz up to...
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    One day we are flying, the next....well...Some of you should not read this if you are afraid of spiders....

    We have been doing a lot of up scale remodels on older homes and that can be a little creepy at times. Spiders and bugs are common in this trade. Today though, was a little over the edge. We had to open up a sewage ejector system to install an alarm in case of a failure. Whenever we open up a...
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