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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2019, 01:47:26 PM »
beautiful...one thing i would like is smoothbore, just one of 'em, not a whole rack
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2019, 05:31:12 PM »
:Doh! I'd of plumb forgot that bucket, Feltwad... :toast :shake

That's okay, Joe.  I have a good bilge pump.  We can use my 12' sailboat if you want, so we don't need to wear ourselves out rowing!  Maybe we should pull your boat along so we have something to keep stores (food, water etc.) in?  Could be a good place to hide out from each other if we got argumentative!   :laffing

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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2019, 05:45:29 PM »
:Doh! I'd of plumb forgot that bucket, Feltwad... :toast :shake

That's okay, Joe.  I have a good bilge pump.  We can use my 12' sailboat if you want, so we don't need to wear ourselves out rowing!  Maybe we should pull your boat along so we have something to keep stores (food, water etc.) in?  Could be a good place to hide out from each other if we got argumentative!   :laffing

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Perfect! my rowboat's called a Water Tender, sounds like a heck of an idea! We can fly the TMA Flag and be the first TMA Navy!!! I like it!!! :bl th up

Now if our wife's will let us go??? :o

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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2019, 06:47:06 PM »
:Doh! I'd of plumb forgot that bucket, Feltwad... :toast :shake

That's okay, Joe.  I have a good bilge pump.  We can use my 12' sailboat if you want, so we don't need to wear ourselves out rowing!  Maybe we should pull your boat along so we have something to keep stores (food, water etc.) in?  Could be a good place to hide out from each other if we got argumentative!   :laffing

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Perfect! my rowboat's called a Water Tender, sounds like a heck of an idea! We can fly the TMA Flag and be the first TMA Navy!!! I like it!!! :bl th up

Now if our wife's will let us go??? :o

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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2019, 07:00:15 PM »
:Doh! I'd of plumb forgot that bucket, Feltwad... :toast :shake

That's okay, Joe.  I have a good bilge pump.  We can use my 12' sailboat if you want, so we don't need to wear ourselves out rowing!  Maybe we should pull your boat along so we have something to keep stores (food, water etc.) in?  Could be a good place to hide out from each other if we got argumentative!   :laffing

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Perfect! my rowboat's called a Water Tender, sounds like a heck of an idea! We can fly the TMA Flag and be the first TMA Navy!!! I like it!!! :bl th up

Now if our wife's will let us go??? :o



Rum, we're gonna need lot's of Rum!!! Kees, we best sign Rondo on, he shared an article here on the TMA about Sailors and Rum,,, so he's the man we're gonna need to make the crossing.  :hairy :toast
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2019, 07:13:48 PM »
:Doh! I'd of plumb forgot that bucket, Feltwad... :toast :shake

That's okay, Joe.  I have a good bilge pump.  We can use my 12' sailboat if you want, so we don't need to wear ourselves out rowing!  Maybe we should pull your boat along so we have something to keep stores (food, water etc.) in?  Could be a good place to hide out from each other if we got argumentative!   :laffing

~Kees~

Perfect! my rowboat's called a Water Tender, sounds like a heck of an idea! We can fly the TMA Flag and be the first TMA Navy!!! I like it!!! :bl th up

Now if our wife's will let us go??? :o



Rum, we're gonna need lot's of Rum!!! Kees, we best sign Rondo on, he shared an article here on the TMA about Sailors and Rum,,, so he's the man we're gonna need to make the crossing.  :hairy :toast

According to my calculations and considering the,.... size of boat, number of crew, distance, and speed,.... we shouldn't need much more than 11,000 gallons of rum to complete a one-way trip to the UK.  :bl th up :applaud :toast :laffing
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2019, 07:32:32 PM »
:Doh! I'd of plumb forgot that bucket, Feltwad... :toast :shake

That's okay, Joe.  I have a good bilge pump.  We can use my 12' sailboat if you want, so we don't need to wear ourselves out rowing!  Maybe we should pull your boat along so we have something to keep stores (food, water etc.) in?  Could be a good place to hide out from each other if we got argumentative!   :laffing

~Kees~

Perfect! my rowboat's called a Water Tender, sounds like a heck of an idea! We can fly the TMA Flag and be the first TMA Navy!!! I like it!!! :bl th up

Now if our wife's will let us go??? :o



Rum, we're gonna need lot's of Rum!!! Kees, we best sign Rondo on, he shared an article here on the TMA about Sailors and Rum,,, so he's the man we're gonna need to make the crossing.  :hairy :toast

According to my calculations and considering the,.... size of boat, number of crew, distance, and speed,.... we shouldn't need much more than 11,000 gallons of rum to complete a one-way trip to the UK.  :bl th up :applaud :toast :laffing

We're gonna need a bigger boat... Does anyone here at the TMA own a Tanker capable of holding a little bit of Rum? 22,000 gallons to be exact???  Rondo, are you sure that's gonna be enough so we don't have to start rationing it on the way back?
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2019, 09:48:16 PM »
Will an 18' kayak help you out?
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2019, 10:01:53 PM »
Will an 18' kayak help you out?

How many gallons does she hold, Hank?  :toast :Doh! :shake
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2019, 11:58:57 PM »
:Doh! I'd of plumb forgot that bucket, Feltwad... :toast :shake

That's okay, Joe.  I have a good bilge pump.  We can use my 12' sailboat if you want, so we don't need to wear ourselves out rowing!  Maybe we should pull your boat along so we have something to keep stores (food, water etc.) in?  Could be a good place to hide out from each other if we got argumentative!   :laffing

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Perfect! my rowboat's called a Water Tender, sounds like a heck of an idea! We can fly the TMA Flag and be the first TMA Navy!!! I like it!!! :bl th up

Now if our wife's will let us go??? :o



Rum, we're gonna need lot's of Rum!!! Kees, we best sign Rondo on, he shared an article here on the TMA about Sailors and Rum,,, so he's the man we're gonna need to make the crossing.  :hairy :toast

According to my calculations and considering the,.... size of boat, number of crew, distance, and speed,.... we shouldn't need much more than 11,000 gallons of rum to complete a one-way trip to the UK.  :bl th up :applaud :toast :laffing

We're gonna need a bigger boat... Does anyone here at the TMA own a Tanker capable of holding a little bit of Rum? 22,000 gallons to be exact???  Rondo, are you sure that's gonna be enough so we don't have to start rationing it on the way back?

We could make a swing detour to Jamaica if we start running low on rum.  :hairy :hairy :)
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2019, 04:29:32 AM »
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2019, 08:33:52 PM »
I don't like jumping into this thread so late but, honestly, I really would like to see the Captain's Log Book for this trip.
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2019, 09:48:15 PM »
I don't like jumping into this thread so late but, honestly, I really would like to see the Captain's Log Book for this trip.
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That's an interesting request, Russ... I'm not sure if we should write it before we go,,, or go, then try to remember what we should've wrote??? That Rum can be mighty unpredictable...  :lol sign You best come with us.  Perhaps a share of Rum will sway you to going along???  :toast :applaud
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2019, 12:28:16 AM »
I don't like jumping into this thread so late but, honestly, I really would like to see the Captain's Log Book for this trip.
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Ha!,..... like any of the crew will be able to hold a pencil, or write anything legible.  :laffing :toast
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Re: English Flintlock Sporting Gun
« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2019, 08:30:05 AM »
Although the thread was for sporting guns  I have enclosed a couple of images of guns that were neither sporting or for fowling .They are guns that were used for live pigeon shooting from traps  this sport is no longer practiced in the UK it became illegal in 1924. These gun were specially built with no ramrod and came in all bore sizes from 10 up to 4
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