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Hermann252

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Hello to all black powder aficionados in this forum I just joined!
Whenever my job, family and hunting passion is allowing me, I enjoy a good shooting competition with rifles, hand guns or muzzleloaders. I hope to learn more here from other keen shooters.
Below a pic of my two most loved black powder tools, an original and it’s replica sibling from the Black Forest, where I‘m coming from.
 

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Hermann252 said:
Hello to all black powder aficionados in this forum I just joined!
Whenever my job, family and hunting passion is allowing me, I enjoy a good shooting competition with rifles, hand guns or muzzleloaders. I hope to learn more here from other keen shooters.
Below a pic of my two most loved black powder tools, an original and it’s replica sibling from the Black Forest, where I‘m coming from.
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Black Forest Vic I presume rather than urban Adelaide Well you got the right forum here . Ime across the ditch in NZ but am familiar with Vic & most of Aus , A lot of good lads from both and pretty well global Ime sure youle fit right in .
Regards Rudyard
 
Rudyard said:
Black Forest Vic I presume rather than urban Adelaide Well you got the right forum here . Ime across the ditch in NZ but am familiar with Vic & most of Aus , A lot of good lads from both and pretty well global Ime sure youle fit right in .
Regards Rudyard
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Austria I miss read for Australia ! Well pobodys Nerfect welcome anyway.. I did cross Austria once in a fluke lift from the Iran /Afganistan border but was night time saw nothing . about a dozen of us overlanders got a lift on a Returning empty coach they like us had to stop in Persia to be tested for Cholera at the Border three days .But we got tents & food so pleasant break the Coach had to stop So we conned a ride . the Drivers said" The only sights we want to see are the White cliffs of Dover "so they just drove in turns stopping only for fuel primeally , So we went through Teheran , Istanbul,& Vienna each at night to arrive early morning in Dover .The Customs man comes inside says "Anything to declare " ? We where a little capsule of hippy sorts. I had a big Sitar others likley had all sorts of exsotic smokeing mixtures . No body spoke he says " Carry on" & that was that . Going out three years earlier It took me about 7 weeks Milan to Karachi. I hadn't the 10$ to get an Afghani visa so went the Southern route via Kerman, Isfahan , Zaidan, & Nokundi into Baluchistan . their was a state of war twix India & Pakistan so took a Pilgrim ship' SS Sardonha' to Bombay from Karachi my last 42 Rupees deck passage. But I had sent out 85 pounds to Bombay that got me to Columbo then 6 weeks living of 4 Rupees a day( 32R/- to the pound black market ). but I just had the fare P&O' Canberra' to Freemantle and landed with a whole 3 pounds to my name.
All off topic Reminiscing .Rudyard
 
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Rudyard said:
Black Forest Vic I presume rather than urban Adelaide Well you got the right forum here . Ime across the ditch in NZ but am familiar with Vic & most of Aus , A lot of good lads from both and pretty well global Ime sure youle fit right in .
Regards Rudyard
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Black Forest, a mountain range in South West Germany, I wasn’t aware there’s one in Down Under as well, already learned something.
Best Regards
 
WOW! that is a trip of been there & done that. what a fascinating journey. I can't imagine all of the memories that you must have to reflect on?
 
Hermann252 said:
Black Forest, a mountain range in South West Germany, I wasn’t aware there’s one in Down Under as well, already learned something.
Best Regards
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I slept a night in the Black forest Germany once Ide been looking for a ship in the major ports of Europe then without success was hitching from Olso to Genoa via the Gottahardt? tunnel all grey wet & cold but once through into Italy' Whoopee !' like summer time again . But no ship. (The working passage caper is very unlikley but was worth a try .Hence Ime in Milano with 16 pounds. What to do next? .I go to Venice then on a road heading East I toss a coin two out three .three out of five ect (always indecisive) My Hertz Renta car map showed a road that went to Austria the fashion then in 1966 was to work in Germany ...So I let fate decide the next lift if he went north Ide do that if he went to Triest Ide run the overland .Well he goes to Titos Yugoslavia at Reika I camp in some field that had big furrows & at dawn I wrote two letters home & a Cousin & effectively pawned my collection for 85 pounds to be sent to National & Grindleys bank Bombay.

. (Today youde spend that going out for dinner but in 66 it seemed like serious money ) Well I get a ride to Zargreb post the airograms hitch to Belgrade , very repressed State under Tito .Then by much welcomed good luck an Austrian Stamp dealer was going to Istanbul so I got to Instanbul (Incidently he last went that route in a Panzer tank !) Passport so full of West Africa stamps I had to get a new one in Istanbul .Turkey was hellish poor lifts. but Persia under the Shar had cheap busses if lousy roads . and so the link was made . One lift of possible interest was one in Italy with a muzzleloading gun maker might be Petersoli. Ile look at my diary might mention it fuller .had my Italian been better who knows what could happen ? (.Old Kit Ravenshear worked in Spain for some Basque gunmakers ) Anyway this explanation is a bit tenuous in the gun department other wise But Ime sure Toot will like it ..
Regards Rambling Rudyards reminisces
 
Hermann252 said:
Hello to all black powder aficionados in this forum I just joined!
Whenever my job, family and hunting passion is allowing me, I enjoy a good shooting competition with rifles, hand guns or muzzleloaders. I hope to learn more here from other keen shooters.
Below a pic of my two most loved black powder tools, an original and it’s replica sibling from the Black Forest, where I‘m coming from.
Click to expand...
Come on over and bring your pistols.
 

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