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Post by rusty on Jan 12, 2024 13:58:52 GMT -5
High winds scare the hell out of me while I'm in the woods. No matter what I'm doing in the woods. I look up in the air more than I'm looking straight around. I had a branch of a tree release from a snag, about 25 years ago. The branch was probably 8" diameter and a good 15' long. It landed no more than 3' away from me. GONER ! if it connects. I remember a story in Game News some years ago, where a record class Bull Elk was killed in PA when a tree fell across him. I had a close call with a piece of tree top crashing to the ground within a couple feet of me while taking a 'coon out of a trap back when I was in high school. It was heavy enough that I felt the ground move. It startled me at the time, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I came very close to enjoying my last predawn trip to the woods behind my parent's house. I don't know if somebody was looking out for me, or somebody barely missed an attempt. Now high winds make me nervous when I'm in the woods.
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Post by Loggy on Jan 12, 2024 18:39:41 GMT -5
Saturday in Sullivan........ "southwest wind 23 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 46 mph". Monday's looks like winds under 10 mph. Great. Wife wants to check on the camp so I am stuck going Sounds like you got yourself a good one there Mike!! My Mrs thinks I'm crazy venturing out in single digit temps! She shoulda known better marrying an ice fisherman!!
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Post by moosemike on Jan 13, 2024 13:29:09 GMT -5
We're at High Knob Inn right now. When we leave here the wife wants us to go deer hunting 🤨
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 14, 2024 12:06:38 GMT -5
Seen over twenty deer Friday afternoon before the rain came and passed a shed buck up. Saturday morning turned ugly with high winds and snow squalls but out the door I went from camp at 6:30. I seen well over twenty again Saturday. Worked into the wind stopping every now and then to overlook likely areas. I walked right up on another shed buck and gave him a pass. Finally at 2:00, I crested over a ridge and spied two does feeding on the bench below. After twenty minutes waiting them out, the big doe stepped clear and a tried to hold true as the flint did its thing. At the shot, I could tell she was hit and watched her run about 50 yards before tipping over. The 245 Powerbelt entered quartering to and exited middle of ribs.
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 15, 2024 10:49:07 GMT -5
Looks to be a beautiful day for the last day of statewide flintlock. Still cold with a inch of snow around here. Deer should be on their feet all day with the approaching weather system comng tonight.
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Post by dougl on Jan 15, 2024 12:05:46 GMT -5
We easily have a foot of crusted snow that I can almost walk on top of.We had 30-50 mph sustained winds for almost 4 days.There was exactly a zero percent chance that I was gonna hunt in that.I literally plowed 6 times yesterday because within an hour,the snow would be drifted over a foot in that time.I woke up this morning and it was -4 degrees.My son came home from work on saturday around 4:00 AND WANTED TO PUT A COUPLE DRIVES ON.I told him to put the crack pipe down.
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 18, 2024 7:53:05 GMT -5
Been trying to talk myself into a Kibler kit. Of course every year I try the same thing. I enjoy flintlock hunting so much, the thought of carrying a true long rifle into the flintlock woods just pulls at my gut. Now would be the time to order one up.
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Post by fleroo on Jan 18, 2024 8:42:17 GMT -5
If I owned a gun that perty, I wouldn't be crawling in any thickets of tangle patches, looking for a wounded deer. I'd prop it against a tree, then after long trail, I'd forget which tree.
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Post by moosemike on Jan 18, 2024 9:24:09 GMT -5
Thats the polar opposite of what I use. I use a Traditions flintlock with black plastic stock. Saved a bunch of money by going that route and sometimes it even goes off
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Post by Loggy on Jan 18, 2024 10:04:33 GMT -5
After going though quite a few factory Tupperware stocked offerings in 2007 I decided to bite the bullet & have PA Gunmaker Brad Emig at Cabin Creek build me a 54 Caliber PA Mountain Rifle. Sure wish i woulda done years earlier but that 8 years of Kido's college hit sorta slowed me down a lil. If I could only keep one gun out of my many......this would be it hands down! Lock: Precision assembled Large Siler Flintlock fine tuned in Brad's shop. Barrel: 38" 1-56 Tapered/Flared radius bottom rifling(round bottom) by the Colerain Barrel Co in PA Stock: Select Northern Curly Maple. The Master Gunbuilder Brad Emig ready to Hand Ole Loggy His Treasure of a Lifetime!!
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 18, 2024 10:21:39 GMT -5
After going though quite a few factory Tupperware stocked offerings in 2007 I decided to bite the bullet & have PA Gunmaker Brad Emig at Cabin Creek build me a 54 Caliber PA Mountain Rifle. I will give ya a grand for it.
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Post by bushmaster on Jan 18, 2024 12:17:23 GMT -5
Beautiful Flinter Loggy!
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Post by moosemike on Jan 18, 2024 12:34:02 GMT -5
Yeah that is lovely
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Post by fleroo on Jan 18, 2024 12:57:07 GMT -5
There is absolutely no way I'm tramping the fields, woods and tangles here in SW PA with that rifle. NO WAY !
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Post by rusty on Jan 18, 2024 12:58:16 GMT -5
That gun is a thing of beauty, Loggy. It will be appreciated for generations.
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Post by moosemike on Jan 18, 2024 20:42:43 GMT -5
There is absolutely no way I'm tramping the fields, woods and tangles here in SW PA with that rifle. NO WAY ! I would. I wouldn't leave anything for other people to get the enjoyment I should've got from my things after I die
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 19, 2024 7:39:02 GMT -5
There is absolutely no way I'm tramping the fields, woods and tangles here in SW PA with that rifle. NO WAY ! You don't do that now anyway...................... You might as well look good sitting in the hut with a fine looking longrifle.
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Post by fleroo on Jan 19, 2024 8:09:57 GMT -5
Flinter I do. Flinter is just my son and I. We are on the move. None of the old, feeble guys flint hunt, so we are FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK... well you know. Well actually, "Grumpy" (73) does flint hunt with us quite often. He doesn't do the walking we do, but he's out there sometimes.
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Post by Loggy on Jan 19, 2024 9:12:44 GMT -5
There is absolutely no way I'm tramping the fields, woods and tangles here in SW PA with that rifle. NO WAY ! No need to bust your arse crawling through tangles etc.......just plan to hunt smart and your gun will stay purdy!!
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Jan 19, 2024 10:52:41 GMT -5
Well as long as we're showing off our tick lickers. Custom made of course by a departed friend back in the 1970, though not for me. I had talked to him about helping me build one, he was a self employed machinist by trade, but his passion was black power long rifles. He called me about a week later and told me that a person whom he helped to build this rife no longer wanted it, and I could buy it for the price of materials that it took to build it. Didn't take me long looking, it was what I had in mind. Full Curley maple stock, Douglass double XX barrel, 45 Caliber 1 in 66 twist, H W Robbins lock, plus a lot of English Silver inlays. It shoots better than I can hold. Though I did manage to take 2nd place on the 25 yard off hand match one time.🤣
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Post by fleroo on Jan 19, 2024 10:58:25 GMT -5
Lucky get on that rifle. I'll offer you the price of materials, PLUS a 7 lb bag of the finest birdseed you've ever thrown.
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 19, 2024 11:06:17 GMT -5
Well as long as we're showing off our tick lickers. Beautiful piece!
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Jan 19, 2024 11:33:00 GMT -5
Well as long as we're showing off our tick lickers. Beautiful piece! Yes it is, almost to beautiful to carry in the woods. I did carry it this year, but with my lumbar spinal synopsis my legs won't take me very far in the woods anymore. I'm able to park my truck about 50 yards from where I sit when hunting/watching for deer. None show up this year, so I'll fire off the load at my shooting range first chance I get to see if it still makes smoke. The friend that built it, told me right off. "I don't build theses guns to hang on the wall, I build them to be used."
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Post by rusty on Jan 19, 2024 11:42:35 GMT -5
As much as I love the looks of a beautiful walnut or curly maple gun stock, I would never want any gun that I was afraid to use as I wanted for fear of scratching it. If it get a ding or two I'll try to remember it as part of the gun's story.
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Post by Loggy on Jan 19, 2024 12:01:49 GMT -5
The least I ever worry about is scratching my gun. My mode of Late Season hunting hasn't changed one ioda when I went from carrying a tubberware stocked flinter to curly maple. I had gun built to be an effective/functional hunting tool...not a piece of furniture. First real get "down n dirty" test was an ALL Flintlock TN Wild Boar Hunt with 11 other flintlock friends most carrying custom smokers. Hunt involved hunting thick brush/swamps chasing after hound run hogs. Believe you me....scratching our purdy flinters was our least concern!! A Lil Smoked/Pulled Pork! lol
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