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VERY good post.....and, er......thread. So much information, great pics.....you've done a lot of good work!

I'm for no tacks....definitely not daisy tacks. Having said that, though, the three tacks you have placed don't look too bad, but NO MORE! Get some antique PC tacks if you must attack your gun.

I'm impressed. This is real winter camping!

Jeremiah Johnson has some GREAT dialogue lines....you've got to admit it. One of my favorites: "Paints His Shirt Red speaks English....he just does this to aggravate me...."

A LEATHER bean bag would be even better: more grippy.

Believe it or not, a bean bag to rest the horn on while holding it with your hand works pretty well. Sew yourself the size bag you want and fill it with dry navy beans from Kroger.

I I know...I looked it up! Always good to learn a new word. I'm going to use it next chance I get, and I am going to use the French pronunciation to see what kind of reaction I get. LOL

Very nice work, and, just like Notchy Bob said, it's nice to see knives that are pretty much period correct in style and construction.

Chatoyance, eh? Easy for you to say.....

Very nice work! Good to see someone re-purpose an old, historic gun barrel.

That is a good-looking gun!

My opinion: Don't worry about a little oil in the bore of a gun. I'm assuming you will run a dry path down the barrel just to make sure it isn't sopping wet.

On second look, it's pretty apparent that is the shape of the bore, and the whole barrel is twisted to as to produce de facto rifling.

I wonder if that is just the shape of the barrel at the muzzle, and maybe 2 inches in it narrows down to a normal rifled bore?

I attended a reenactment at Martin Station in Western Virginia several years ago and they were pretty safety-conscious. The head honcho inspected my flintlock and gave me a small piece of red yarn to tie around the end of the ramrod to remind me not to use the ramrod. Powder was distributed in...

Yes...we are lucky. In Michigan there is a LOT of public land of all kinds where people can hunt, fish, hike, birdwatch or whatever. I couldn't tolerate living in a state with so little public land.

Microbial food poisoning, and then one died from dehydration and low electrolytes caused by vomiting and diarrhea.

Once you have YOUR load removed....perhaps using a ball screw....use the ramrod to make sure the gun does not have an old, wet load with a ball already in it. Put the ramrod down the bore all the way and then use it to measure and see where that position is outside the barrel.

A fellow reenactor worked for 6 weeks as an extra on Michael Mann's Last of the Mohicans. He told me that most of the costumes, equipment, etc. were pretty much historically accurate because they tried to make it that way. He also said that when he pointed out a small error in a British...

People at the range invariably think that a muzzleloader kicks really hard....hahaha. I guess they really took that one scene from 'Jeremiah Johnson" to heart. Sometimes the person is shooting a 30/06 or a .308. I hasten to inform them that what they have has quite a bit more recoil.