daniel boone

[robbymoore1968@yahoo.com]

any one know what caliber and what type of rifle .mr boone used?

[old salt]

Here is a little info on old Dannel's rifle,


http://www.tvacres.com/weapons_ticklicker.htm

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

[Ironwood]

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

[robbymoore1968@yahoo.com]

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?

[robbymoore1968@yahoo.com]

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.

[Baldy]

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. 

[Ironwood]

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......     

[fullstock58]

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.

[robbymoore1968@yahoo.com]

                  is thirty shots per pound about 36-40 caliber? just guessing.

[DEADDAWG]

30 ball to the pound is .537.

[Ironwood]

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.  

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.

[BRIAR]

Y'ALL RECKON IT MAY HAVE STARTED AS A 25CAL. AND OVER THE YEARS BEING FRESHENED OUT ENDED UP AS A 45?