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SLOTHEAD said:
Hello all, I’m new here and thought I would offer a brief intro.

While I’m an old fart (turned 72 last month), I don’t have a lot of Black powder experience. My first long arm was my 1853 Enfield (2nd model) 3-bander repro that was used for my CW re-enacting between 1983 and 1993 (and have since given reenacting up) and subsequent to that I acquired a couple revolvers (Pietta 1851 Navy repro) and a Pietta 183 police repro). I also recently bought on of those 8” Desperados that you are advertising on the forum.

My chemistry knowledge far exceeds black powder however and have done a stint in model rocketry with homemade solid propellant.

Professionally I am a NASA Engineering consultant subcontractor working at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) expecting to either retire in a few months. I consider myself a chemist, but aside from junior level college chemistry I don’t have much official paper to prove it. I always loved it (chemistry that is) and dabbled in it, but aside from how I employ that knowledge in my NASA support it is not a professional endeavor.

I live in Maryland and spend a lot of time on PA and my company Manson Engineering Research Services (MERS) LLC is registered in the state of Maryland.

I’m married with two children and 5 grandchild all of whom I adore.

I’m also a ham (amateur radio operator) with a bunch if radios, but not practicing regularly.

Take care all,

Slothead Tom KC3QAC (and by the way, the “slothead” term is because of the type of guitars I play.

That’s enough for now, Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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Welcome aboard from KC0OFW! I think you’ll find this is a great place to hang out, lots of good company with valuable knowledge, I do.
 
SLOTHEAD said:
Hello all, I’m new here and thought I would offer a brief intro.

While I’m an old fart (turned 72 last month), I don’t have a lot of Black powder experience. My first long arm was my 1853 Enfield (2nd model) 3-bander repro that was used for my CW re-enacting between 1983 and 1993 (and have since given reenacting up) and subsequent to that I acquired a couple revolvers (Pietta 1851 Navy repro) and a Pietta 183 police repro). I also recently bought on of those 8” Desperados that you are advertising on the forum.

My chemistry knowledge far exceeds black powder however and have done a stint in model rocketry with homemade solid propellant.

Professionally I am a NASA Engineering consultant subcontractor working at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) expecting to either retire in a few months. I consider myself a chemist, but aside from junior level college chemistry I don’t have much official paper to prove it. I always loved it (chemistry that is) and dabbled in it, but aside from how I employ that knowledge in my NASA support it is not a professional endeavor.

I live in Maryland and spend a lot of time on PA and my company Manson Engineering Research Services (MERS) LLC is registered in the state of Maryland.

I’m married with two children and 5 grandchild all of whom I adore.

I’m also a ham (amateur radio operator) with a bunch if radios, but not practicing regularly.

Take care all,

Slothead Tom KC3QAC (and by the way, the “slothead” term is because of the type of guitars I play.

That’s enough for now, Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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Hey slothead, I’m a ham as well but I’ve only done local 2 meter stuff. Pne of these days I’ll have to pit up my dipole and give you a shout.
 
I should say a little about myself since I’m relatively new too. I live in Arkansas. I bought my first ML back about 1980. A CVA mountain kit. I browned the barrel sanded the splinters off the stock and pit it together. Then i bought a CVA mountain rifle which never got put together. One of my coworkers had a couple of percussion revolvers so I thought I needed one as well. I found a used Ruger stainless Old Army. Now I have a couple of flinters. One is a Pedersoli Gendarmerie 60 cal. Smoothy and a blunderbuss I bought from the place that doesn’t drill the touch hole. I can’t think of the name of it right now. That’s all for now.
 

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