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Getting my first flintlock. (Sorry Jamie, I couldn't resist)

Some had as many as 7 barrels

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Went deer scouting yesterday and tree rats must be planning for a hard winter because I found very few nuts, bunches of hulls though.

Yeah. I really like to eat them. My wife makes a pie with them, and it is much better to me than a pecan pie, and I love pecan pies. I also know an older lady who likes them, and I told her I’d bring her some if I could find them.

I've often wondered why hickory nuts are plentiful some years, some not. Got curious after Greg's thread & Googled it. "Experts" say they run in 3 yr. cycles. In my experience hunting over the years, "in some areas", this seems to be true. Squirrels follow the food. YMMV........

21st century manufacturing 101.

Looks like some sort of 4 barreled contraption.

Dave, you have several quality firearms listed that you would consider buying. I am sure you already know this but I have to say it anyway. If you expect to hit your target consistently and accurately the first variable to determine is that the firearm's grip frame fits your hand. It has to feel "right" like putting on a glove. If the grip frame does not fit your hand you will always be struggling to get comfortable with it and accuracy will suffer. After that question is resolved it is a consideration of the barrel length (longer sight radius is your friend) and loaded weight (again, balance). Once you have these questions answered with each of your named models your options for purchasing should be reduced. My own experience in this led me to a Hi Standard Supermatic Trophy that I bought new around 45 years ago. I used to compete in handgun rimfire competition year around. This pistol is more accurate than I am and is completely reliable. I have never regretted having it since it came home with me. I have several other quality RF pistols, some rather pricey, but this is the one that is the most accurate. Some days I won the entire match, and on other days I was only "present and accounted for." I enjoy winning but the true pleasure is in being on the line and in the company of friends. These friends include both the people I have known for many years and the firearms I take to the range. My time for competition on that level has passed and I am reduced to occasional recreational activities. Even now the Supermatic comes along for the ride occasionally. It makes good company. Good luck on your search.

Or..."Wow back in 2019 you could buy ammo!"

50 years from now, there will be posts exclaiming about the "crazy cheap ammo prices" from 2019 ...

Might as well stay with punt guns one more day Virginia Game Wardens with Confiscated Punt Guns from The Chesapeake Bay, ca. 1920

I’d mostly agree with this except for one snag. It doesn’t apply to our situation. That’s why I brought up having different worldview. For it to apply we would have to assume that folks have the same end goal in mind and that a common path forward can be found to that goal of only we think hard enough about it. I no longer believe that. The world I want to live in and the world leftists want to live in look very little like each other and no amount of critical thinking will get folks working at cross purposes to the same place. They are thinking very clearly, they just don’t want what you want.

I've got a bunch on the ground from a tree in the front yard, the one in he back, not so much, but there are a bunch of squirrels back there so that may be the reason.

It took the full force of the US military and a coalition of nations 10 years to put down an insurgency in Iraq which is a country the size of Texas...and they still were not completely successful. There are an estimated 100 MILLION gun owners in the US. If just 3% of them say "Hell No" then this country ceases to exist as it now stands. And the number may well be low because people often lie to pollsters about gun ownership. THINK about that. Think about what it would take to bring a 3 million person guerrilla force under control if the simply do not want to be controlled? Think about what it means if just a tiny militant fringe of that 3% decides that taking the head off the snake (or the heads off the Hydra) is the right thing to do...... And since this "Army" does not wear uniforms and is not "connected" by structure it will give whole new meaning to "sleeper cells". Just a hard core 1% of the 3% would be 30,000 "fanatics". We didn't kill that many insurgents in Iraq between 2003 and 2011.... I hate to sound like an alarmist but whichever way the next election goes half the country will feel they have been disenfranchised. If the liberal/ socialist /communist side wins and tries to implement (force feed) the same failed policies that made the 20th century genocides possible then you will likely see a percentage of people who feel their leaders not only do not respect them but are declaring war on them cease to accept that government as legitimate. What happens when those people declare war back and have a very different rules of engagement than what we are used to seeing? Beto and the others really need to re think this.... what they think they want is not what they will get. There is a reason Lincoln did not want to "punish" the South because he knew the country would be looking at a 100 year guerrilla war as best case scenario.