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Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message: CHRISTMAS!

« Last post by Fredredcj on December 23, 2024, 06:11:55 PM »

Merry Christmas!

Anouncement's. / Re: Where are you?

« Last post by Red Badger on December 21, 2024, 02:22:03 PM »

I am afraid that the reaper has gotten many of us.... and no one has thought to fire up the computer and post to let us know of the passing... Di and I had an understanding that we would do it, and I have a letter with phone numbers to a couple of people on the site who will relay the message of my demise if it happens.

I don't even know if old Salt is still with us - he went down hill fast after Bluebird passed away. William is alive and well but busy with other things - but I do talk to him now and again.....

and as you all know I am tied to the Muskogee War Memorial Park so am not available as much anymore...

Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message: CHRISTMAS!

« Last post by Red Badger on December 21, 2024, 02:13:03 PM »

MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year

Anouncement's. / Re: Getting concerned

« Last post by Red Badger on December 21, 2024, 02:11:40 PM »

Yes but the sites that are thriving have embraced the dreaded shall not be mentioned device that has a hole on both ends of the barrel giving it it's name that will not be mentioned here....

and allowed the use of PLASTIC .....

Open Topics / Re: how did you get started ?

« Last post by bmtshooter on December 20, 2024, 05:38:29 AM »

When I was about 5th grade, our teacher had us bring in stuff for show and tell. While I brought in a sword (carrying it back and forth to school on the bus), it was one of my classmates who brought a muzzleloader to show. Previously I had never seen one, but I knew about them from watching Fess Parker cart them around in various black and white episodes. But there before me was a full color graceful and elegant wood steel and brass version. It was about ten years later before I actually fired one, but that now seems like a blink of an eye.

Whether directly related or not, it dovetailed in nicely with my fascination with civil war era artillery.

Open Topics / Re: how did you get started ?

« Last post by Hanshi on December 19, 2024, 09:39:53 AM »

I still can't say why flintlocks stuck with me the way they did. I do know/feel a longrifle isn't a real longrifle unless it has a flint lock. I've owned, fired and hunted with a lot of percussion guns and still own three. In fact my oldest ML rifle is a 60 year old percussion. Another one came from Mongrel and has been successfully used for years in postal shoots. Number 3 was a special order from Euroarms that required a "wait" similar to, but not as long as, what some custom builders require. So I've owned quite a few of them and killed lots of game, large and small, with them. They were a mixture of new and used. And never, EVER did I feel under-gunned, outgunned, intimidated or at a disadvantage during regular rifle seasons. It was always "one shot one deer" and frequently three shots and three deer!

Pan flash never distracted me because I simply never noticed it. I knew how to shoot, had training in rifle shooting but from the beginning it just came naturally to me. The flash or a popped cap and follow through were in my DNA----{Don't say it, hotfxr, all that other stuff in my DNA is irrelevant}.

Anouncement's. / Re: Open Message: CHRISTMAS!

« Last post by Fredredcj on December 18, 2024, 10:10:44 PM »

The ways you express your opinions are gifts.
Thats basically two gifts.

Open Topics / Re: how did you get started ?

« Last post by Fredredcj on December 18, 2024, 10:01:54 PM »

My father inlaw started shooting percussion in the late 80’s and he got me interested. I bought a cheap cva and we shot together lots. A few years later a couple friends got into french and indian period reenacting and started using flintlocks. While i never got into reenacting i was fascinated with the flintlock and decided i wanted to try one.