Favorite Muzzleloader sayings

American Mountain Man glossary of Mountain Man terms and expressions by Walt Hayward and another guy. About 17 pages of expressions. Can be downloaded.

American Mountain Man Glossary, here’s the link

http://www.mtmen.org/amm/gloss.html

DANG FLATLANDERS

Rock Home Isle said:

That was the name of one of the neighbors kids…you’d hear his parents calling him all the time, “Dammit, get in here…”

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That's my dog's name.

TFoley said:

From quarrying or mining, not shooting. Drilling a long hole, filling it with explosives, and setting off the fuze. Hence 'fire/fuze' in the hole.

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I know that. But it's still a way for the guys on our rifle range to let everyone know he's about to touch one off.

I Powder With My Brother Ball, Hero Like Do Conquer All

One I've always used when asked why I'm using a muzzleloader when I could use something newer and unmentionable:
"I'm not sure that those new fangled cartridge guns will catch on" or sometimes I'll say they're "not safe or reliable".

"Git often mawlon", which is Authentic Muzzleloader Gibberish for "No trespassing".

"Demsh wash th'daysh", which means "I am reminiscing".

BLACK STUFF FIRST!!!!!

Walt

Many of the expressions we hear and use for firearms actually originated with archery. Point blank comes from using a white (blanc) piece of cloth to aim by. Putting point of arrow on the white cloth at a distance that it would hit it was point blank distance. Moving the mark on the target for different ranges to hit the target was called a point of aim system. Highstrung is a bow with a very high fistmele or brace height. Men from young to old were required by royal decree in England to practice shooting arrows at the "butts" (backstops). Think of the CMP - civilian markmanship program on a national level. A "prick" was a mark put on the backstop as a target so there was an expression called "shooting at the pricks". This is not a joke but a fact.

pilot said:

That's my dog's name.

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I named my dog “Grandma” so I can stand in the front yard and yell, “here grandma, where are you grandma? Grandma stop poopin in their yard”. Lol

In infantry school they called it a “Canadian bull”. Have no idea and none were brave enough to ask. I sure wasn’t. The idea was to be invisible and since my last name starts with “C” I was roster #109 I was in first squad. I damn sure kept my mouth shut.
Oh and it was the Zero target.
I have dreams about Zeroing my ancient M-16. Every one else had A1’s and I had a three prong muzzle break no forward assist original. When it got dirty it doubled and tripled. Still after 40 years I remember the serial number.
THATS how afraid I was of the psychopath on work release who they affectionately called a “Drill Sergeant”..