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If you’re going to pack cast iron, the 3 quart is plenty big for one. I had one and used it for 20+ years, but for packing on your back I recommend a tin or copper pot. A quart tin cup and a spoon works if you haul a coffee pail too. Cast iron is fine for cooking but only if you’re packing it...

Ike, I killed a young buffalo bull a few years ago that was causing a lot of trouble for a rancher, destroying fences and pestering the purebred cows. It seems the rancher got him as a calf and when the calf got grown there weren’t any buffalo cows available. Anyway, I shot him with a Leman...

Welcome from another South Texan.

I was hunting in Florida, in the Alafia River area, using my trusty .50 caliber GRRW Leman Indian Trade Rifle, named Lucy . I was still-hunting, moving slowly and carefully, stopping frequently and scanning the area around me. There was a lot of undergrowth and palmetto scrub but pretty good...

I miss the Buckskin Report, but miss ol’ Dinglehoofer even more. He was a friend. So was the Poltroon and a bunch of others. Still get ML Not MB.

Call DGW, give them the make and model and ask them about the missing piece. They have a lot of original parts and are very helpful.

Abrasive cord. Amazon. Different grits, just like sandpaper.

While you're making up your mind, consider this: A Trade Gun is basically a single-shot shotgun, either 20 gauge or 12 gauge, which will require more time to reload than you're gonna have, even presuming you haven't dropped it. Bears up close have a tendency to disturb your focus. We had...

It saddens me to be the one to tell the forum that Bruce Hering, aka: Huntschool, passed away on September 24th. Bruce was a good friend and a fine craftsman as well as `a buckskinner, a Hiverano of the AMM, an educator and a life-long supporter of the shooting sports. He is sorely missed.

Welcome from South Texas.

Midsouth Shooters Supply has CCI #10 and @11 caps instock for $119 per thousand, y’all.

The blade shape you're referring to is the standard butcher knife shape. It was one of the most common in the Fur Trade and traded to the mountain men and Indians in large numbers. There are multiple examples in the Museum Of The Fur Trade.

Many things were made from blankets or blanket material. My capote was made from one, ditto a rifle case, a sash to belt the capote, A sleeveless long vest/weskit for days that are cool but not cold enough for a capote, leggins, mittens for really cold weather, even a scarf.

Back when the world was young and I started out in muzzleloading, I was told that in a good barrel a tight patch/ball combination with the powder charge that barrel “liked” gave the best accuracy. I found that to be true then. Still is, unless I missed something. Works for me anyway.

Just a comment for Smokerr and Tenngun and then I’m gonna step off this merry-go-round. Most of us have made our share of difficult shots over the years, some of them the stuff of tall tales, yet they happened. We know they can, at least once. Some of us know that getting hit by ANY bullet at...

Shooting from 120 yards with a .36 Navy, the ball will hit with the approximate force of a thrown pebble of the same size, on a high trajectory. Hopalong Cassidy used to regularly shoot the gun out of a bad guy's hand, shooting from the hip from the back of a running horse too, but only in the...

Sorry .... I had to go look up Lonnie's contact info. It's been a while and I've been out of touch. Here goes: Lonnie Ammann 9914 Jackrabbit Ln Bryan, TX 77808

Welcome from the Hill Country. You might want to look up the Texas Association of Buckskinners and see who's active in your area. They'll get you up to speed. Lonnie Ammann used to be very active with the TAB but he's working with Cimmaron now. He probably still knows everybody who's active...