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Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message
« Last post by hotfxr on Today at 01:57:36 PM »
I think that we have lost too many members to age. Although Hanshi will undoubtedly live forever, most of us don't. Not just their presence, but their experience and (mostly) sage advice. And to tell the truth, losing members like my other hero Mongrel, not to the black camel, but to life's circumstances, deletes a lot of motivation.

Now that I have been gifted a computer that actually works, I will try to spend more time here.
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Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message
« Last post by hotfxr on Today at 01:48:22 PM »
Quote from: Hanshi on Today at 08:14:31 AM
I wonder if interest, in general, would pick up if a truly good movie (maybe kinda like Jeremiah Johnson) were to hit the theaters.

I believe that movie was largely responsible for the resurgence of black powder shooting back when it came out. I know it made me interested in muzzleloaders.
It seems that all the sites I visit are lacking in the activity category. There is not one single store (as far as I know) in California that sells real black powder over the counter. You have to mail order it from out of state. In my searches I have found only one store in Oregon and one in Reno. That is due to BATF&E rules by the way. I learned that back when I still had a FFL.
And out here around July or so, black powder is banned from most public ranges due to fire hazard.
I had hoped that the much hyped "The Revenant" would spark a groundswell of interest in muzzleloaders, however it just wound up being 2 1/2 hours of my life that I will never get back.  :'(

Who knows, maybe if life gets back to a pre-pandemic normal, the Black Powder Dark Arts might rise up again.
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Your club / Re: Beaver Creek Freetrappers
« Last post by Hanshi on Today at 08:17:17 AM »
Quote from: bmtshooter on Today at 07:56:34 AM
My kids say that all my clothing is primitive.

I prefer to say "vintage".


Me too.  But I don't need anything else; sooo....
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Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message
« Last post by Hanshi on Today at 08:14:31 AM »
I wonder if interest, in general, would pick up if a truly good movie (maybe kinda like Jeremiah Johnson) were to hit the theaters.
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Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message
« Last post by bmtshooter on Today at 07:57:54 AM »
The "show unread posts since last visit" selection actually worked today ........things are looking up.
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Your club / Re: Beaver Creek Freetrappers
« Last post by bmtshooter on Today at 07:56:34 AM »
My kids say that all my clothing is primitive.

I prefer to say "vintage".
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Your club / Beaver Creek Freetrappers
« Last post by flintboomer on May 18, 2024, 06:44:59 PM »
Beaver Creek Freetrappers is a small Rendezvous and shooting club near Sterling Oklahoma. We meet on the 3rd Saturday of the month and also hold Spring and Fall Rendezvous.
Monthly shoots are usually a novelty shoot followed by a gong shoot and primitive dress is encouraged but not required. Spring and fall are bigger events and primitive dress is required but loosely defined so it doesn't take a lot to be dressed primitive.
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Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message
« Last post by flintboomer on May 18, 2024, 06:28:10 PM »
 pnic
I hope we can revive the site, but right now it is close to a dead one. A few of us are at least still here and hoping it doesn't go away.

On that same thought but local club level we had 9 shooters today at the Beaver Creek Freetrappers. One of the shooters was about 30 ish and a couple more in there 50s. The rest of us are in our 70s and 80s. Some of us older guys can still shoot quite well but for how long can a few older guys and even fewer young ones keep this sport up?
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Anouncement's. / Open Message
« Last post by Hanshi on May 15, 2024, 01:29:00 PM »
Don't know if others realized it but I noticed, quite some time ago, that "The Campfire" sight has been gone away for a while.  Haven't heard anything about it being revived but who knows.

The forum had slowed down - familiar to anyone here - where on any given day there was no post or for several days running.  Often My occasional post or another member's post would be it for a while.

Okay, the chance for us to be the first great forum to die is gone.  But we are on afterburners for second.  After we kill off this one let's all go to another forum and try to kill it off.
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Handguns / Re: Smith & Wesson Model 1
« Last post by Hanshi on May 13, 2024, 01:55:49 PM »
I recall something resembling current 4f powder has been found in old disassembled BP cartridges.

I've always been much interested in breaktop (or breakbottom) revolvers both the BP and smokeless ones.  I'd love to have, for instance, a .22, .32 or .38 break type pistols.  A choice between BP and smokeless would lean toward smokeless.  But I never met an old gun I didn't like.
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