Thanks for the reccomendation on Oliver Wiswell. I’m enjoying it quite a bit. It’s always good to look at things from a different perspective, and...
Ohhh yes. He came out to western Virginia after the war to look after his land interests. GW had big plans for a canal on the Potomac. He was...
The Revolution sure wasn’t the miraculous, flawless transition that we think it is in grade school. I always like to hear theories from folks...
Thank you gentlemen. I had to snag that up. Good historical fiction to study the craft is somewhat hard to come by. I’d heard of this a long time...
The seizing of property was pretty insane. Quite a few trends like that started in 1774 with the non-importation agreement, trends which in some...
The deeper I dig into even western Virginia and Pennsylvania the more Loyalists I see. The word “disaffected” was used to describe some of them,...
I don’t know, keeping weapons serviceable was a major concern, especially with such a shortage of them. I’d imagine some NCo saw what the privates...
That’s quite possible, come to think of it. Don Troiani’s book mentioned in his book Soldiers of the American Revolution (a darn good one) that...
Ive made up cartridges with buck and ball for the range before. Four to six #6 shot, .715 ball and 80 grains of 2F in a historically correct...
Nice! When I got my Brown Bess it was sort of a toss-up, and they seemed to come up for sale more often than the Charleville. I’ve been checking...
Made a post earlier about mine having some problems. Next month I’m meeting with a guy to drill the touch hole out a little bigger. It’s tiny. Is...
Haha our coffee’s kinda muddy. Efficient that way. Pretty gross but it gets us moving. I’m getting the touchole drilled out, or the fort...
Yeah, pretty sure I can find someone with some. I’ve tried .690, .715, .725, and .735. The .725 and .735 were way too difficult to load for my...
I was using 80gr 2F and 1 1/8 #7 shot. Also tried same amount of #4. I found it shot high, but last time I took it out I was having some problems...
I found the .735 to be really difficult to load with a paper cartridge, even when the cartridge was made of thin newsprint. I have not tried wads,...
Smiling Fox Forge has a lot of good period buckles too. Not sure if Najecki is doing business regularly these days Great work on the bag!
Ive always wondered about this too. It shows up on regimental uniforms and even shirts (the reinforcement on the bottom of a bosom slit for instance)
Thanks a bunch everyone. When the ground dries out a little it’s the first one I’m taking out. I took some notes. Figure I’ll do my best to ignore...
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