Hello from the great white North..

[Canadian Dragoon]

Just wanted to say hello, I’m new here and looking to learn!
I’m not totally green in the black powder world but my experience is limited to a couple of scratch made percussion rifles I cobbled together from scrap parts over the years..
I found that I’m loosing interested in modern guns and it seems the flint bug has me in its grasp and I’m thinking I need at a 50 cal Hawken style rifle for whitetails and a short Brown Bess (75 cal 36” barrel ) that can serve double duty as a second deer gun and primary scattergun for turkey.

I’m kind of a wood guy as well and can’t leave well enough alone most of the time so I will undoubtedly restock both with my own wood if I come across something that has some fancy figure that jumps out at me.. I often keep forks and crotches to run through my sawmill looking for stock material..

Looking forward to learning from the forum..
Cheers
Rod

 

[Heath78]

Welcome...

 

[TFoley]

Welcome from far-off East Anglia, where we proudly fly the Maple Leaf every 1st July on the front of the house! Mind you, it IS 6 x 12 feet, so it's not going to be missed by anybody!!

When I was going back and forth from a place not far from Brighton late on Sunday evening to get back to work in Ottawa we used to stop in the Timmy's in Perth to top up our coffee flasks...happy days!!!!

 

[thomas]

Welcome to the forum.
Thomas

 

[Old Timer 48]

Welcome!

 

[zerosprk]

Hi Rod, welcome from northern New Mexico!

 

[William Lincoln]

Welcome from Fla-- I think that you should get back into the old ways.
There is a big push in Canada to take the guns. Hopefully they will leave
the historical primitives alone. In any case, you need guns up there.
Merry Christmas.

 

[Eutycus]

Howdy + Welcome from Texas

 

[nit wit]

Welcome from Maine
Nit Wit

 

[mikeinpa]

Welcome from Pa.

 

[Colonial Boy]

Welcome from New England.

 

[toot]

Welcome.

 

[Rató:rats]

Welcome from Brantford ON

 

[Whughett]

Welcome from New England.
In the late 80’s a few friends and I would book deer hunting trips in the Plaster Rock area of New Brunswick.
We would enter Canada at Fort Fairfield / Perth Andover. The guides family ran spring bear hunts and salmon fishing but had started fall deer hunts as well. Perth/Andover was a pleasant little town.
Several of us carried side arms while hunting. Border crossings then weren’t a problem. One just had to declare. Re-entering the US was more involved.

 

[nkbj]

Welcome from the Indiana corn tundra where the high light of the last century was Cary Grant diving to the ground on Highway 41 to avoid a crop duster in a Hitchcock movie (in California).

 

[Hatman/2nd line]

Welcome from PA! Spent some time in Quebec years ago, loved it!

 

[UndeadPoet]

Welcome, from North Carolina!

‘Poet

 

[RobWheeler]

Welcome from NW SD.

rob

 

[Crowtalks]

Welcome from a semi-balmy Tennessee!

 

[Zapadach]

Just wanted to say hello, I’m new here and looking to learn!
I’m not totally green in the black powder world but my experience is limited to a couple of scratch made percussion rifles I cobbled together from scrap parts over the years..
I found that I’m loosing interested in modern guns and it seems the flint bug has me in its grasp and I’m thinking I need at a 50 cal Hawken style rifle for whitetails and a short Brown Bess (75 cal 36” barrel ) that can serve double duty as a second deer gun and primary scattergun for turkey.

I’m kind of a wood guy as well and can’t leave well enough alone most of the time so I will undoubtedly restock both with my own wood if I come across something that has some fancy figure that jumps out at me.. I often keep forks and crotches to run through my sawmill looking for stock material..

Looking forward to learning from the forum..
Cheers
Rod

I am glad you can still shoot black powder in Canada.