William Hovey Smith III
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Hunting was always Wm. Hovey Smith's passion, and if there was anything he was more passionate about was hunting with a variety of muzzle loading guns. This passion took him to Africa where he took big game with a muzzle loading pistol, double-barreled slug-shotgun, and a bolt-action muzzle loading rifle. His interests grew to include hunting both big and small game with muzzle loading revolvers and even a blunderbuss. Many of these hunts were published...
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The common, uncommon, and sometimes strange world of muzzle loading guns is investigated by author Wm. Hovey Smith from the point of view of critically examining their practical self-defense applications. For a decade Smith wrote the black-powder section of The Gun Digest Annual and had the opportunity to use and hunt with many historic replica firearms as well as occasionally refurbish and use some original guns. These experiences included dispatching...
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Create Your Own Job Security: Plan to Start Your Own Business at Midlife teaches now to select, start, and run a series of businesses throughout your lifetime to raise immediate cash when needed, plan for longer term certifications through college or other means, with the ultimate aim of having your own businesses running in the background while you work for others. The ultimate objective is for you to discover work that you enjoy doing so much that...
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In modern times muzzleloading pistols are often thought of as big-boy toys that go bang and make lots of smoke, but both historic and modern-pattern guns are effective for small and big game if the guns and loads are properly matched with the game. For decades, Wm. Hovey Smith has hunted a variety of animals with traditional and modern muzzleloading handguns in the U.S. and Africa. With proper loads many original guns may be used to take smallish...
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Over 50 years of owning, shooting and hunting a wide variety of game with replica and modern muzzleloading guns of all types has provided author Wm. Hovey Smith with a unique body of experiences to used in evaluating muzzleloading rifles, hanguns and smoothbores. These guns have been pushed to unusual levels as he has taken swan with flintlock muskets, Cape buffalo with double barreled in-line rifles, hogs with double-barreled pistols with no rear...
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Relying on 50 years of muzzleloading hunting experiences in all parts of the U.S. with occasional trips to Europe and Africa, Wm. Hovey Smith delivers candid and practical advice on muzzleloading guns ranging from Japanese matchlocks to the most modern in-line rifles and pistols. Never restricted to a given type or hunting or make of gun, he presents information on guns from many makers of replica muzzleloaders as well as on a number of originals...
7) Buying Used Muzzleloading Guns: How to Select the Best of the World's Used Muzzleloading Firearms
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The evolution of muzzleloading guns has undergone an enormous revival during the past 60 years because of the great interest in the Civil War Centennial and the arms used during the period as well as the rise of interests and opportunities to hunt with muzzleloading guns. As a result large numbers of muzzleloading guns are available on the used gun market, and there is interests in using and collecting them. The author's interests in black-powder...
8) Father of the Grooms: Murder, Marriage, and Mafia: An American Family meets their Sicilian Cousin
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The long and complex history of Sicily from before the time of the Greeks to today is explored in the form of a novel written by Wm. Hovey Smith. The action involves a Sicilian family who lives in Louisiana taking a unique opportunity to return to Sicily for the first time in three generations. The family is briefly together again. One son, a Marine Officer has just returned from Iraq, His brother, an unsuccessful portrait painter, has been thrown...
10) Crossbow Hunting
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Evaluations of different crossbows on the market today, and how, to select the right arrow, points, and sights. Shooting and hunting techniques for deer, bear, hogs, and elk. Classic crossbow hunts for big game in Africa, musk ox in the Canadian arctic, and water buffalo in Australia.
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Entrepreneur Wm. Hovey Smith details how to make your own job by providing methods of selecting and developing money-making opportunities than can be done anytime, anywhere, at any age. The possibilities include step-by-step methods of raising this month's rent to establishing a life-time income for you and your family to a late-life business doing work that you love. Particular attention is, given to possibilities for those in high school and college,...
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Relatively few modern hunters use their smoothbore shotguns and muskets to take game, yet these versatile guns have taken all of the world's game including elephants. In this book the Corresponding Editor for black powder for the Gun Digest Annual uses a variety of single shot, double barrel and bolt-action shotguns and muskets to take game as diversified as dove to deer to wildebeest in the U.S., Canada and South Africa. The book's 9 chapters cover...
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Once considered only powerful enough to reliably take small game, today's replica muzzleloading revolvers and their modern counterparts, such as the Ruger Old Army, can be used to take larger game animals using charges of modern black-powder substitute powders and Keith-style bullets with weights up to 255 grains. Now available in calibers ranging from .22 to .45, or even .50-caliber in custom-built guns, these arms are versatile alternatives for...
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As the conclusion of a series of inexpensive, introductory e-books on muzzleloading guns, this book explores the possibilities of building muzzleloading rifles, smoothbores, pistols, and revolvers from commercial kits as well as how to carefully restore or completely rebuild muzzleloading relics to usable conditions. These processes are illustrated by commercial blunderbuss, rifle, revolver, and pistol kits from various makers, and by restoring one...
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Entrepreneur Wm. Hovey Smith details how to make your own job by providing methods of selecting and developing money making opportunities than can be done anytime, anywhere, at any age. The possibilities include step-by-step methods of raising this month's rent to establishing a lifetime income for you and your family to a late-life business doing work that you love. Particular attention is given to possibilities for those in high school and college,...