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Which issue was this?I hope y’all can read this, took pics with cell phone. I thought this article might spark some conversation. If you can’t read it, sorry.
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I dunno, but he's got me all fired up (pun intended).
Isn't that frustrating? Lots of stuff from guns to gardening on my Pop's side of the family I wonder about all the time. Like what is that obscure rifle someone is holding in a moldy old picture you can't quite make out. Or what my grand parents did on our farm to have such productive gardens. How did they do this or that. But sadly they're all gone so there is nobody to ask. Really aggravating.Very interesting article. Thanks!
It’s hard to know exactly what was carried by every mountain man because so much was not written down or recorded in some other manner and the period documentation we have does not always show the whole picture. We have only limited information to use.
I think about my grandfather and great grandfather’s guns. I remember what my grandfather’s gun was because I shot it when I was a boy, but fine details of the gun I cannot recall. There was nothing written down about it and I don’t think there were photographs of it. Anybody else in the family who might have known are already gone.
I only recall stories about my great grandfather’s gun and I never saw it. There are no known photographs of it, nothing written down about it and again, the rest of the people who did know about it are gone. My vague memories of old stories are the only information left of that old gun.
I enjoyed the article. Thanks for posting it.I hope y’all can read this, took pics with cell phone. I thought this article might spark some conversation. If you can’t read it, sorry.
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Am interesting read, but I find much fault with the author.I hope y’all can read this, took pics with cell phone. I thought this article might spark some conversation. If you can’t read it, sorry.
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July/Aug 2020Which issue was this?
A good article, but I still think that flintlocks were more popular until the late 1830s.I believe the fur trade records back that up.
So nothing has changed in almost 190 years ?In 1835 when David Crockett left for Texas he left at home his most recent gift, a percussion 40 caliber long rifle. His family stated he did this for fear of unobtainable caps along the route.
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