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Got back from Pennsylvania last night. Lots of snow and cold makes for a very White Christmas for the family, but it still would have been fun just to get out and walk with a birdgun (even if it was just force of habit). Evidently, folks now pay real-money to stand in a super-refrigerated room (in warmer climes obviously) just to treat various afflictions? It supposedly re-sets your autonomous functions in your central nervous system, amongst other things. Seems a bit silly to me, but what do I know? I like to do it because it reminds me now of people and places long-gone. I like the sounds and smells and the memories it still elicits. It gives me a unique perspective that I don't seem to otherwise find (it also gets me out of a small house, full of adolescents). This year was a bit different, however...  
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Lloyd;
Good to see your ML'er actually looks like a ML'er & not a 700
Rem or similar. What, no variable power scope & a flinter, no less. Surely this is a posed shot with a prop gun, no self respecting ML'er would hunt with a gun like that anymore.
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I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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Nice buck. Despite 2-piper's modernistic bent, I respect your choice of hardware...Geo
Yes, I know Miller was kiddin'
Nine point with a side-kicker?
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That's all you're allowed in PA this time of year. Good shooting Lloyd.
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Thanks Treb! Finally got my money's worth out of an out-of-state deer tag there. Mr. Newbern: you are very perceptive. He's a 9-pointer (well formed 8 with one out the back). Easily the biggest buck I've ever killed. Pennsylvania mandates a "primitive" form of muzzleloading for most of the season there. I guess the in-line stuff can now be used in a very restricted time-frame earlier in the year? This was the during the ride back to Cleveland Hopkins yesterday. Eight degrees below zero here (in Kinzua country). 
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Hunted in the first PA Flintlock season, (and many since), with the same TC Hawken Rifle as pictured. Always was glad PA has kept the flintlock season rather than open it up to inlines.
A time of the year for real men to hunt with a real rifle.
Way to go Lloyd.
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come on ....a decent flinter would have a gun with a buck horn rear site and brass front blade..not that modernistic click adjustable crap.....
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Let's see your deer.....
Best,
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Its still an open iron sight and yea, let's see your deer you got with your flinter. Love that pic Lloyd. 
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I know, I know...this gun was a Christmas gift from a young women I was seeing many years ago (35 now? Bless her for knowing me so-well). We did not marry, but I do remember her fondly. It's the only left-handed version flinter that I've ever run-across that was semi-affordable (an Italian-made Charles Daily). I was at Dixon's Muzzleloaders near Allentown just last summer and I could see investing in a bit-nicer version someday. Being a southpaw has limited my options to having one commissioned to fit my needs exactly (swamped barrel, minimal furniture, etc.) but until then this one seems to serve my needs quite nicely. Talk about climate-change (!), yet another tough January day here in Colorado: 
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