Well I started out in one direction and went another :lol:

[Brian(upstateNY)]

Didn't have a lot of time so hit the woods for almost 2 hrs at the Ghost Town I go too
Well it was cooler for sure and felt great but then I got a call and had too head out but made a few finds just the same
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Part of a Kero Lamp
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A few buckshot
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And some odds and ends
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While I was there I heard a lot of gun fire going on ,I love guns so I got really lucky and happen across this
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I thought the South was Risen again
Actually is was the reenactment of The Battle Of Oklawaha ~1865~ in Marion county Fla.
Yup Vern there wasnt much here but the Rebs chased the Yanks out of what they did have back then

Heres a link for anyone interested http://www.ocklawahariverraid.com/index.htm

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

These finds where from the location of the community well was from what I have found and very few records have offered
There is brick and lots of iron around the area and it is where I got the buttons early this year here.
I have not dug the well out yet,lots a sand too move
Here are the buttons from early this year
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Here are a few more pics
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And noticed a few feathers were ruffeled as well
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oh well all I know is there was some po folk down here

 

[Elson(La)]

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[Jim West Pa]

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[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Jim West Pa]

Cool digs tho Brian.

 

[Jim West Pa]

stuff a ball, fill my pan, knap a flint and strike it across my frizzen.
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[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Jim West Pa]

I bot me an Old Army last sumer but have yet to have time to make balls and play with it.
I also bot a .45 LC cylinder for it but have yet to fire that either.
My Hawken blew up in my face last summer.
I loaned it a freind and he had some kind o' sabot in it.
Anywho, i asked him to give it back to me before he unloaded it and
i spose durin that time the sabot worked loose and instead o' igniting
it detonated. In my face lol
My lock plate blew off, the stock cracked and i lost my eyebrows and some facial skin

 

[Jim West Pa]

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[Brian(upstateNY)]

good Jim
Mines a TC Hawken not a cheaper one so Im not worried too much
But like anything that goes BANG ,ya better watch out

 

[Magyar]

Time to get out the coat and boots...

Magz

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Jim West Pa]

Mine's a TC also.And, ( i say this with a bit of embarassment coz i'm a gunsmith), it's factory and not a kit.:blush:
Sooooo, all i gota do is git around to packin it up and gittin it off to TC and they'll hook me all back up.
I would own nothing less.

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Jim West Pa]

But it did blow out the touch hole.
Get this, even tho it blew out the touch hole the threads were not damaged.
I used after market allen type touch holes that i altered to have a funnel design to them. It improved 'lock time' tremendously.
It blew that out,blew out the lock assembly, bendin it and breakin the main hammer spring in the process.
It also cracked the stock down thur the grip area and of course, as i said, whiped away my eyebrows, eye lashes and gave me a pretty good burn down the right side o' my face.
He had the gun loaded with a Remington brand sabot that he said "fell" right down the Bbl when he loaded it.
The looseness of the sabot, or should i say it's ease of loading, is why i believe that it came loose,
moved away from the powder charge causing a detonation instead of an ignition.

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Jim West Pa]

I had been tellin my wife, who recently got into shootin and buyin guns like they're goin out o' style,
how cool it was to shoot a front loader.
She had been hearin this from me for months whille my friend had my Hawken.
Sooooo, finaly the fateful day comes 'round and i go out into the yard
and tell her to stand to my right coz it looks cooler from the side.
I shoulder the rifle, co ck the hammer and set the trigger.
I make sure she's watchin, which she is with droolin baited breath,
and i touch 'er off.
I don't know who had the more pricelss look on thier face, her or me.
Needless to say, she aint in no hurry to be touchin off a stuffer any tme soon
She is achin to shoot my OA tho. As am i.

She's been gettin all the neccessaries together and next summer she's gittin into C.A.S.S.