any one know what caliber and what type of rifle .mr boone used?
Here is a little info on old Dannel's rifle,
http://www.tvacres.com/weapons_ticklicker.htm (http://www.tvacres.com/weapons_ticklicker.htm)
http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/RevAmerica/1-Who/Boone.html (http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/RevAmerica/1-Who/Boone.html)
These are the only two articles I have about Boone's rifle and as you can see they give two different calibers
Here's a nice little site about Daniel Boone. Has a small statement about Tick Licker down aways on the page.
http://boonebunny.tripod.com/boonehubbub.html
people dont understand me but thats alright because i dont ethier but ihave killed many deer with my 45 kentucky perc but its a littie rough on turkeys. i believe a 40 we be just right for deer & turkey.the way i hunt anway. i had always heard dannel prefferd a 40. anyone ever use a40 on deer?
ive been off work over a year now i am trying to save up for a flint lock but would like to get one i can use for everythng. off work because i was shot in the right foot with a 50 cal 90 grs powder & round ball.point blank.
Quote from: turkeyman on July 12, 2010
ive been off work over a year now i am trying to save up for a flint lock but would like to get one i can use for everythng. off work because i was shot in the right foot with a 50 cal 90 grs powder & round ball.point blank.
*YEE-OUCH* is really an understatement. (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/229.gif)
Didn't Liver Eating Johnson head west with a .30 caliber? Seems like that was the rifle he started out with. Daniel's Tick Licker could very well have been a .29 caliber. On turkey, possums, coons and the such it should do a very good job. If that was the only rifle you had and it was you are the bear...... ;D
Didn't Liver Eating Johnson head west with a .30 caliber?
I think it was a mis-print/mis-written, I believe it was ment to say 30 balls to the pound. I highly doubt that there was anything in the .30cal range made back then.
is thirty shots per pound about 36-40 caliber? just guessing.
30 ball to the pound is .537.
Fullstock.. I was just funning about the .30 caliber. In the movie Jeremiah Johnson, Robert Redford supposedly bought a .30 Caliber Hawken rifle but soon found it wasn't big enough for Western game. ;D
Turkeyman, If my division is correct, 30 balls to the pound would come out to 233 grains per ball. I think that would be about what is used in the .54 caliber rifles.
Y'ALL RECKON IT MAY HAVE STARTED AS A 25CAL. AND OVER THE YEARS BEING FRESHENED OUT ENDED UP AS A 45?