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iluv308

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Hi, I'm new here and wanted to say hello.
I am a pro-American Canadian with friends in U.S army, navy and local Police. I have Canadian friends who have been involved in the war on terror in the east and the have kicked some tallybutt over there for all of us. I do not support the current Canadian Pussy Policy on Iraq and fiquire our boys should be beside yours. The U.S. is like our big brother and has kept us safe for many years and we should be behind your efforts now.

I live in work in southern Britsh Columbia in the spring and summer then in the fall I drive for 3 days to near the yukon border to hunt/fish and trap on my 200 square mile trapline. We have caribou, 1000 lb griz, 4 foot pike and 60 inch moose on the trapline plus an assortment of furbearing animals. I am the only human resident in the area and a town over a 1000 people is a 6 hour drive. It gets 40 below often and boy, bugs in the summer. Canada has enacted laws which require all longguns be registered with the federal goverment. Any transfer of ownership requires Gov't approval and a 25$ fee. Certain guns are exempt from this including flintlocks and singleshot cartridge guns manufactured before 1898 (over 33 cal)......I am interested in building a museum of sorts near the alaska hwy when I retire as a tribute to the fur trade and would allow flintlock shooting as part of the attaction.
I am interested in getting a couple reliable flintlocks. A large calibre rifle for moose/ caribou/Griz (in defense only) and a shotgun for ducks/geese and upland.....and maybe a small cal for beaver......also old cartridge single shots.....any suggestions from you fine folks.....
 
Can't help you with flintlock selections, but I can welcome you to The High Road!!!!!! Welcome aboard and I appreciate your politial sentiments.
 
A large caliber gun for griz? Talk about cajones. :eek:

John Sutter (Sutter's Fort fame of the 1840-50s) use to have one of his soldiers carry a Brown Bess whenever he left the fort - just in case Griz came along. Thankfully for our Swiss (self promoted) Major, they never had a run in. Heavy though they may be, the Perdesoli Kodiak comes to mind but that's a double barrel percussion gun. But we're talking flintlock, aren't we?

Recall that Lewis & Clark's Corps of Discovery carried .54 caliber rifles. They laughed off the Indians' tale of a bear that could not be stopped by rifle bullets. After all, they had a state of art .54. Well, they weren't laughing when the Grizzly chased them into the water. Perhaps a platoon armed with Brown Bess muskets would have done better (volley fired & with bayonets).

I'm thinking of the Hand Mortar kit from The Rifle Shoppe myself. Modernly we call it a grenade launcher. Tennis ball sized "bombs" can be launched with it.
 
I found I just really didn't like sub-zero temperatures, which is a large part of my enjoyment of my little patch of southwestern desert. :) Winter is maybe the second weekend of January, and then we're through with it.

"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!."

Welcome to THR!

Art
 
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