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  1. Joe Wolf

    A Lion in the Camp.

    At a national Muzzleloader Match in Arizona several years ago several people saw a cougar. The closest I have come to seeing one is some tracks and a pile of scat at the entrance of a cave in the rocks in north Texas.
  2. Joe Wolf

    A Lion in the Camp.

    I wish I had been there. I'd enjoy seeing some cougars. I heard several years ago that one was seen in our area.
  3. Joe Wolf

    A Lion in the Camp.

    I wish I had been there. I'd enjoy seeing some cougars. I heard several years ago that one was seen in our area.
  4. Joe Wolf

    Where to purchase black powder in the San Antonio, Texas region?

    I buy 25 one pound plastic cans of powder for our White Smoke Brigade club for $15 a can, including shipping and HazMat, from Jack's Powder Keg in Louisiana. www.Jackspowderkeg.com 888-245-9631
  5. Joe Wolf

    Texas Shooters

    The Texas Free Trappers have rendezvous near Shiner, Texas on the second weekends of December and February. The White Smoke Brigade has muzzleloader matches at Canyon Lake, Texas on the fourth weekends of every month. Contact Grey Wolf at [email protected]
  6. Joe Wolf

    Powder Horn

    Look at the catalog from Crazy Crow. They sell horns from cow and buffalo, made into complete horns or with all of the parts to make your own.
  7. Joe Wolf

    Events near San Antonio and Austin, Texas

    Fritztown Free Trappers has Spring and Fall Rendezvous. Texas Free Trappers has Spring and Fall Rendezvous. White Smoke Brigade has monthly black powder matches near Canyon Lake, Texas for info and flyers email [email protected]
  8. Joe Wolf

    South Central Texas area events

    If you are interested in attending four rendezvous a year near Shiner and/or monthly black powder shooting matches near Canyon Lake get in touch with me at [email protected]. I'm also looking for fellow participants in the Goliad battle and execution program in late March. Joe Wolf aka Grey Wolf
  9. Joe Wolf

    Rendezvous College

    Is there any interest in attending a "Rendezvous College" near Shiner, Texas put on by the Fritztown Free Trappers and the Texas Free Trappers? It would be over a Friday-Sunday period in early October. The goal is to get new attendees for our rendezvous by providing instruction in the...
  10. Joe Wolf

    What to do with my hawks?

    I would consider hawks 1, 4 and 6 to be throwing hawks. I'd call the 5th one a Norse design. The NMLRA rules don't allow a hawk blade edge to be more than 4" long. I don't cut too much extra wood off at the head. The wood shrinks so much in fairly dry central Texas humidity that the tip of the...
  11. Joe Wolf

    What we need to shoot

    It takes a short starter to start the patched ball in a tight bore fit situation. A very few guns nowadays have a "coned" barrel wher the rifling was removed from the first inch or so from the muzzle. That allowed the whole ball to be inserted into the bore. The use your ramrod to push the ball...
  12. Joe Wolf

    fire starting

    Cut 4 inch lengths of 1/4" to 3/8" manila rope and separate the strands to make your "bird nest". It's good accompaniment to watching TV.
  13. Joe Wolf

    Rendezvous

    One more invitation to buckskinners and/or shooters who don't participate in living history type events. Three groups have joined and offer 4 rendezvous and 12 monthly black powder shooting matches. The rendezvous take place on the second full weekends of February, April, October and November on...
  14. Joe Wolf

    Stolen Cap & Ball Pistols

    1. Buy a modern pistol 2. Teach your wife to shoot 3. Hope the ?*&%# comes back for more.
  15. Joe Wolf

    Rendezvous

    I guess I'm talking to myself again, but it's time to put out the word again. There hasn't been a post on the Southwest area since my last one. Where are the buckskinners! Texas Free Trappers Rendezvous XIX (that's 19!) will be on November 7-10. It's on a nice 200 acre site near Shiner...
  16. Joe Wolf

    Flea Market find, What is it?

    My guess would be that the gun was finished and used until the lock failed, probably with a broken mainspring that the owner could find anyone to replace. Percussion came in and the old flinter gut put in a drawer. The sloppy initials are from the careless and talent free owner. The barrel...
  17. Joe Wolf

    Identification help

    It's just an inexpensive shotgun that the Brits would call a fowler. It was just "rode hard and put away wet." Lots of inexpensive guns don't get careful treatment.
  18. Joe Wolf

    German,Double Barrel Side x Side

    Lots of European long guns had horn trigger guards. It was cheaper than metal ones, readily available and cheaper labor to make. The name on the lockplate(s) is usually the maker and if there is a name on the barrel that is the gun builder with lock(s) bought from someone else. The gun is not...
  19. Joe Wolf

    Thoughts on a Dragoon

    In the U S Army Dragoons were mounted infantry that rode to battle. Usually there were ten soldiers in a group. I have read that nine fought while one tended to the horses. I assume they rotated the horse tending job.
  20. Joe Wolf

    Looking for a Tent

    I bought a used Baker for my first rendezvous tent. It was a pain in the neck to set up with all the posts at the beam ends and the short ones like wall tents have. It had cross beams too. The first serious rainstorm produced leaks at 6 bellies in the roof canvas. Then I bought a pyramid. It was...
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