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...hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...
...Muzzle-loader fans have to be devoted. Their guns are handmade (many fans make their own), and firing them takes effort. To load a flintlock rifle, the marksman 1) measures out a charge of powder, 2) pours it down the barrel, 3) moistens a cloth patch with saliva, 4) puts a lead ball on the patch, 5) sets patch and ball in the muzzle, 6) taps the ball with a little mallet or some other appropriate tool, 7) trims away the excess cloth, 8) shoves the ball down the barrel with a short ramrod called a bullet starter, 9) works...
...Friendship, Ind., but the most devoted also get together for a yearly shoot at Fort Ticonderoga. This year 85 true believers made the trip, spent a smoky weekend happily blazing away at National Rifle Association small-bore targets. "They're all crazy," commented a Ticonderoga resident (no muzzle-loader fan), "but they have...
...half a block away and dashed over bridge above the 20th Century Limited that was rounding the bend below. Signals blinked, tracks switched, water tower bubbled, and Limited pulled up to station. Little cart wheels out. On other track, 19th Century Limited whips by. Forgets to stop for log loader which spills logs onto track. Old 19th backs up. Little man at control panel in corner narrowly averts tragedy by switching Old 19th onto another track. The 20th starts up. Goes at full gallup toward Old 19th. Tension is high. Control man pushes button and 20th takes first right turn...
...began last summer when the 21-year-old quarterback was employed as a loader on the Boston piers. He loaded and unloaded fishing boats as they came in his duties taking him into a refrigerator where it was often 40 below zero. Considering the weather, that facet of the job wasn't bad, but the ribbing he took from his fellow workers...