David, thank you for your enthusiasm and tireless efforts to share match results and encourage more LRML shooters.
I continue to be amazed by what a good shot can do with the .577 Enfield and properly fitted bullet. I can't recall, but you are shooting an original with 1:48 twist, aren't you? If...
One of these has been on my list since forever. I blame the old Gun Digests and Ned Roberts's "The Muzzleloading Caolock Rifle." Eager to hear how she shoots once you have a proper mold for it.
Dave, sorry and will comply. For some reason I thought that only applied to the firearms. Does this apply in the cooking/clothing crafts section as well?
Kinda thought these items went together pretty well as they date to the mid-late 1700s. The blade is of the "Ticonderoga" pattern, forged from what seems to be good carbon steel. The blade is 9 1/2 inches and the tang is about 4 1/4, rounded at the end for peening or for threading. A few years...
In response to a PMed question, this loom can produce a sash or strap up to 94 inches in length, per the instructions and specifications described in the Bress book, from which I copied the plans.
These fit in only at the very end of our periods here -- the Plains period and the Civil War, but they would not be out of place worn by a plainsman -- or soldier -- driving a wagon or riding a horse in the 1860s.
They are very nicely made, fully lined 16-inch stovepipe boots made by Boulet in...
Straps for powder horns, possibles bags; sashes to go with hunting shirts, "open before"; garters for breeches, that sort of thing. It is an updated design of the ancient tape loom.