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  1. Loyalist Dave

    Rabbit hunting and gear

    I don't know about others, but I always hang my rabbits and/or squirrels outside. I have lanyards with loops, and that goes around the animal's head. I try to field dress the bunnies before I move one, but some places don't want you to do that if they run dogs. Cooling of the game is good...
  2. Loyalist Dave

    Do you name the guns that you build?

    My .54 was bought, not made by me, but somebody at Cabin Creek Muzzleloading made her. Dropped my first couple of deer where they stood so she was named "Gertrude" (strong spear) , and I call her Trudy. My .40 took a long time arriving, so it's named "Patience". My Bess was modified to look...
  3. Loyalist Dave

    1850’s Fowler markings

    52Bore is correct, and so is your prior information. The youngest that barrel is would be 1868 LD
  4. Loyalist Dave

    Gettysburg Cross Stitch

    ZOIKERS! LD
  5. Loyalist Dave

    New Reenactor looking to get into French and Indian war

    GREETINGS! So are you looking for an original, or are you looking for a reproduction? How much abuse will it take? This is important as you might want to think about a less expensive, functional factory long rifle that you can bang around in the woods instead of two-grand worth of semi-custom...
  6. Loyalist Dave

    Lead could dissolve a marriage

    I know lots of them, both in Rev War and F&I units, ..., but my wife's reply to coming out reenacting with me was , "I don't like bugs, I don't like heat ; I like my dishwashing machine".... so that pretty much summed up the situation. What started the conversation was her asking me "Why don't...
  7. Loyalist Dave

    Need help identifying an old percussion double barrel shotgun

    Unfortunately, that's a breech loading shotgun, meaning that lever over the top between the hammers is pushed (usually to the left) to open the gun and insert shotgun shells. That makes the gun too modern for discussion on our forum, as it's not a muzzleloader. The inscription "BALTOCLUBGUN"...
  8. Loyalist Dave

    Black Powder Aluminium Flask?

    I did point out it was some years ago, and that we didn't bother to find out what had happened, only ceased to leave the rounds for very long. OH but the observation that they didn't sell sporting BP in aluminum containers, when it would've been cheaper and non-ferrous to do so..., was...
  9. Loyalist Dave

    When Did the Shotgun Become a Shotgun

    The actual scholarly information was good, but some of the other stuff..... and it was a sincere question guys.... LD
  10. Loyalist Dave

    Trying to lighten the cookware

    You need to tell us what you want to cook! Big difference between a lone fellow who treks with the smallest Potje and has decided (rightfully so) that this is too much iron... And the guy who is cooking and baking and for several folks, eh? Two men and a boy can unload a LOT of stuff. but...
  11. Loyalist Dave

    Lead could dissolve a marriage

    "And that's when I stabbed her, your honor..." LD
  12. Loyalist Dave

    Black Powder Aluminium Flask?

    Both the Aluminum and the powder that contacts it changes colors. May only be cosmetic, but didn't want to fool with it. We found a round that had been made for an event the month before, and it was so corrupted we dumped it. We figured aluminum is non-ferrous but steel is ferrous, yet...
  13. Loyalist Dave

    New member

    You had a modern bolt rifle mixed with the photos. You may want to try to load only the dueling pistols again. Matt Avance is Tennessee Valley Muzzleloaders. LD
  14. Loyalist Dave

    Black Powder Aluminium Flask?

    Here is a shot flask made from hard leather. You could make one that holds powder instead. You could make it and then boil the leather to make it hard, OR you could make it out of rawhide (rawhide dog bone soaked and untied) dried after fashioned and then cover that with leather. LD
  15. Loyalist Dave

    Black Powder Aluminium Flask?

    Um..., no that's probably a bad idea. I was once a muzzleloading artillery man and I know the black powder reacts with the aluminum foil that we would wrap the main charge within to shoot the cannon. Since we made these up less than a week before an event it was not a problem for us as the...
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