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Joined: Jun 2, 2022
Last seen: Aug 23, 2026
Topics: 41 / Replies: 1084
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Re: The sad sad truth.

Not very different to a couple of fat okes 'hunting' off the back of a bakkie.

2 years ago
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Re: Availability of percussion caps?

Well, the British hunted all kinds of dangerous game with the Bess.  Lions included.It was one of the longest military service guns in history.I ...

2 years ago
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Re: Availability of percussion caps?

BTW a  load of 80 grains WANO FFG behind a 550grain .715" round ball travels at about 1000 ft/sec from the Bess.That's like a smokier a...

2 years ago
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Re: Availability of percussion caps?

Might be worth checking with Craig at Blunderbuss in Alberton.

2 years ago
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Re: Attempted spam account registrations decreasing ...

This is going to make the importation of high quality east european-ish maidens much harder.

2 years ago
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Re: Shotgun action vs double rifle action?

My 2c worth.Shotguns are low pressure firearms so generally don't have as heavily built an action as a double rifle. While you can make rifle bar...

2 years ago
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Re: Secondhand Ruger Security Six grip and HKS speedloaders

They come up from time to time and there was a guy on GS who contacted me with an offer for both. He'd bought them years ago with a view to compe...

2 years ago
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Re: Start Of winter Hunt

I can remember when I had only a pellet gun, barefoot with other little boys and a box of 100 pellets. The ground so cold your toes burnt. Little murd...

2 years ago
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Re: Start Of winter Hunt

People who have a bit of the country and it's ways built into their formative years are much the better for it in my experience. Fewer and fewer ...

2 years ago
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Re: Heavier bullet and range

Gold, there's a Monty Python sketch in this somewhere!

2 years ago
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Re: Heavier bullet and range

The astronauts did that exact experiment on the moon with an eagle feather.Oh dear, another one who believes the moon landings were real. We shouldn&#...

2 years ago
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Re: Heavier bullet and range

The astronauts did that exact experiment on the moon with an eagle feather.Oh dear, another one who believes the moon landings were real. We shouldn&#...

2 years ago
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Re: Heavier bullet and range

The mass of the bullet will influence barrel vibration so I don't think you can assume that bullets of different weight will land in the same spo...

2 years ago
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Re: Cast bullet sizing, actual bullet size compared to sizer

That's the type of confusion that happens when you try work from a memory that was last fresh years ago.It does happen that a mould will drop und...

2 years ago
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