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  1. tenngun

    Ramrod Striping??

    I like the look but it only seems to have been a thing on southern rifles. So I have it only on my SMR However…. I’ve only seen it in historic photo back to the 1930s, and no one can say when it was applied
  2. tenngun

    My Gift Arrived

    Oh congrats
  3. tenngun

    Flintlock Shooting as Olympic Event

    I don’t know Bunch of guys in leather, lace sometimes even guys wearing just a cloth around thier bottom parts 😂
  4. tenngun

    Ramrod End for Fowler

    Got a horn cylinder from crazy crow cut off a slice and drilled a hole to fit on the rod, then filed it down
  5. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    Well square works fine and there are the daisy shaped , the Central Europeans used triangular. I doubt in any side by side testing if any shape cit perfect or not makes any difference Blackpowder maniac shoots a patch strip such as you would use cutting at the muzzle. With his he cut almost...
  6. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    I agree with the idea that most were cut at the muzzle Howsomever’patch knife is a modern term. When Audubon wrote about Boone loading he just calls it belt knife
  7. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    Posted twice
  8. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    Bare just won’t do well in a rifle, and my gut tells me it would only be done when there was no other choice. We don’t have documentation to show civilians useing sewn on patches as was seen in the military. To me that’s a null argument. Bob is in the military sees seen on balls. Later as a...
  9. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    Did you ever proof them? My first build used a green river barrel, now out of business My first rifle was a Mowrey Allen and Thurber. To the beast of my knowledge none was ever proofed
  10. tenngun

    Making a mountain man sleeping bag.

    During the first world war Germans were much impress by the American ‘giants’ It is funny to see the tiny uniforms of the WBTS compared to the bigger men of the Revolution Was at a museum exhibition that was traveling around the country on Catherine the Great and there were several uniforms and...
  11. tenngun

    Origins of chili con carne

    My dad used to cook up a dish he called Spanish rice. Told me how his uncle owned a restaurant and invented the dish. Rice bacon green pepper and onion and backed about an hour. I grew up thinking it was a family invention. Of course Spain was doing it for about five centuries before my great...
  12. tenngun

    Is this Moroccan flintlock pistol authentic?

    It looks good in photos, and I don’t know enough about them to pick out any wrong details. A caveat I would add is between cr 1870 and the 1930 there was a big market in fake antique guns produced in France Spain, Portugal and Morocco
  13. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    Yes, but I have four ml three with green mountain and one with Indian barrels. Not a one has ever been proofed
  14. tenngun

    Which is historically correct, precut patches or cut at muzzle?

    Precut are described in Central Europe in seventeenth century when rifles were still on coltsfoot style stocks. And show up in nineteenth century, I’m thinking Ned Roberts’s mentions them but don’t have his book now to check. Balls in patches were known for military guns in early eighteenth...
  15. tenngun

    Colt 1851 Navy—120 yards?

    Looked in my Lyman black powder ballistics book A .36 revolver can get 900+fps A .350 ball at 900 FPS at 100 yards slows to 617 and has 54 foot pounds of energy Tut was killed at seventy five yards . A 36 should be about 738 fps and 77 ft lbs Ain’t a high powered rifle for sure. But I...
  16. tenngun

    Colt 1851 Navy—120 yards?

    I think it was Cole Younger in the Minnesota raid that took over a dozen hits, and went on to a long life. Hitting hard would create an incapacitating wound even if not lethal vs right spot to produce a kill. A .22 comes to mind. It can kill a man, but also produce a wound that’s only annoying
  17. tenngun

    Muzzleloading has my brain

    So Wife and I have been watching a British detective show about an inspector Frost. Last night a guy pulled a double barrel shotgun on Frost. And my first thought was ‘where’s the ramrod’ Whoops there are breechloading double I had to stop to laugh at myself
  18. tenngun

    Poor man’s guns

    And we shouldn’t forget the amount of brass barred gun
  19. tenngun

    Powder Flask with Drams Mark

    I don’t know much about flask, I would say original since by the time modern muzzelloading took off most makers switched to grains
  20. tenngun

    Well I will tell ya...

    I’ve always had good experiences at public ranges
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