Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 07:37 PM
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Awesome. Now that's tradition.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 07:48 PM
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Outstanding! I love the similar poses.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 07:56 PM
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Reminds me of the great Albert Sodie, from up der nort of Escanaba...Gods country, where da bucks are as big as Buicks! Awsome picture, hunt long and hard young man!
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 09:11 PM
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Wow, that old buck is a giant. They sure don't make them like that in the Comins area anymore!
Congratulations to the new hunter carrying on the tradition with the old rifle!
Last edited by Michigander; 11/19/19 09:13 PM.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 09:58 PM
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Isn't that the same rifle that Tom Horn used in his attempt to control cattle rustling in Wyoming? When arrested Tom had a 1984 Winchester 30/30 but had a 45/60 Bullet in his pocket, the shooting is still hotly contested some saying he did others that he didn’t Now there are some making, and making a good argument that there were actually 2 shooters
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 09:58 PM
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That is a nice old 76! At least you can make ammo for 45-60 you just have to watch the pressure’s. The 76’s were not a strong action. Cool story and piece of history!
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 09:59 PM
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I like stories....very nice !
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/19/19 11:36 PM
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Very cool pictures and story. I have my grandpa's old side by side hammered 12 gauge shotgun with hammers. My most prized possession. Made in 1880's.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 10:08 AM
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I take it the 45-60 is a black powder cartridge?
That's a huge rack that Great,Great Grandpa shot.
Last edited by seniortrap; 11/20/19 10:09 AM.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 10:09 AM
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Very cool! Love them old levers.Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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I believe the long barrels were to extract as much power out of the black powder as possible. Plus a little more accurate.
Vietnam--1967 46th. Const./Combat Engineers
"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction." "After the first shot, all plans go out the window!"
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 02:25 PM
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 02:50 PM
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that is cool .
don't you fellas have to wear 50% orange over there in MI or did he just take it off for the photo?
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 03:24 PM
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Great gun and story That will live in your grandson's memory for eve .And they want to say all hunters are just red necks that want to kill something .Your story about the history is much ,more in line with most people that truly love the outdoors I agree, well said. Like Mike often says on American Pickers, " It's not so much the stuff, as it is the history."
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 03:55 PM
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My trapline gun is an old Remington sportmaster that was my great grandpas originally. My dad refinished it when he was in high school and I recently refinished it again just to protect it. Nothing showroom quality but i smile every time i use it. continue to think that a cheap revolver would be so much easier to carry around and use but i just cant get away from that old bolt action there by my side and the stories it could tell.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 04:55 PM
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that is cool .
don't you fellas have to wear 50% orange over there in MI or did he just take it off for the photo? if the orange is camo,it has to be a t least 50% orange. Solid orange can be just a hat visible from all sides.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 11:26 PM
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that is cool .
don't you fellas have to wear 50% orange over there in MI or did he just take it off for the photo? if the orange is camo,it has to be a t least 50% orange. Solid orange can be just a hat visible from all sides. thanks , that seems so strange compared to WI but I am guessing you don't have the hunter density we do in WI. here a hat if worn must be orange and 50% of the upper body , they do allow florecent pink for the girls now but oddly not hiviz I did wear a hiviz cap for several years no warden ever stopped me everyone new it was me coming close to a mile away. ground blinds on public land must have a 144 sq inch flag visible in all directions. nice job, carry on and enjoy the hunt you fellas are about to start week two I would almost prefer if every one in my party had a strip of hyviz on their sleeve I could pic them out from the other parties we some times run into. I guess that is what a one week season does.
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/20/19 11:40 PM
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I believe our hunter density is more than yours.I believe only Pennsylvania sells more deer licenses
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Re: Great Great Grandpa's Rifle
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11/21/19 12:09 AM
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Very cool story, as they say "a picture shows a thousand words"
These pictures have two stories , I'm not even sure the OP knows it , props if he does.
The first picture is what as known as a 'colored' photo. Made before actual modern type 'color film' came into vogue , they had different ways of making a color picture in the days of mostly black&white photography. Some b&w negatives were treated with dyes or different processes or prints even sometimes hand painted with dyes as they were drying. I have a vintage sepia photograph of my grandfather when he was young and racing horses for a living. The main color of the picture is sepia but him and other jockeys next to him in the photo all have their racing silks hand painted with very bright colors. Very neat picture.
There is a whole new story on the first picture, historic in it's own means as a cool piece of photography history plus it's a family heirloom. Doesn't get any better than that.
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