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  1. Tanglefoot

    SOLD Tomahawk

    Brazosland, I don't have the plew to buy that purty `hawk, but wanted you to know it shines! I used to live near the mouth of the Brazos, until we moved up here to the Hill Country. Where along the Brazos do you reside?
  2. Tanglefoot

    Ignition while loading

    Well, all bickering aside --- I've seen one flashover with a .36 Navy cap-n-ball revolver, in spite of using felt over-powder wads and sealing the mouths of the chambers with grease too, and I was also part of a 4-man team in a Cut-The-Stake rifle match when one of my fellow team members had a...
  3. Tanglefoot

    .62 smoothbore as an all around gun?

    I've got a 20 gauge smoothbore flintlock, built from Curly Gostomski's parts. She's a fine shooter and has taken much game for me. She has a very fast lock and shoots to the point of aim at 25 yards if I draw the bead down close to the top flat of the barrel. I load her with .600 round ball...
  4. Tanglefoot

    How did the itzie bitzie teenie weenie screws leave my work bench?????

    What Solanco said.
  5. Tanglefoot

    How did the itzie bitzie teenie weenie screws leave my work bench?????

  6. Tanglefoot

    If I wanted a buffalo rifle.....

    Well, speculation aside --- I got invited on a buffalo "hunt" some years ago. There were four hunters in the field armed with an assortment of firearms: Two T/C "Hawkens, both .50's, one Resley percussion .38 caliber, and mine. The rifle I had was a .50 caliber Leman percussion so that's what...
  7. Tanglefoot

    Please help me identify my family heirloom.

    Nobody else has mentioned this, so I'm going to. That's NOT A MUSKET! It's a very nice, original long rifle with a percussion lock. There are no drop-in parts. Others have mentioned this: Get a skilled muzzleloading gunsmith to restore it if you choose to do that. Someone from your area who...
  8. Tanglefoot

    What if question

    When I was small, back when the world was young, we were poor. We lived on a subsistence farm in the eastern mountains and grew or gathered most of our food. Our property was a quarter-section of mostly forest bordered on one side by a live stream, with a dirt road in front. Quite a lot of...
  9. Tanglefoot

    Dixie Gun Works

    My first DGW catalog was in 1968. I had been "tapped" to help out a Boy Scout troop near where we lived and was scheduled to meet with the Troop Committee after work on the day it arrived. I tossed it into my briefcase and went off to the meeting. The Chairman of the committee was a large...
  10. Tanglefoot

    Where to get a baby sized powder flask?

    https://www.powderhornsandmore.com/
  11. Tanglefoot

    Hi All

    Oz?
  12. Tanglefoot

    Blowing down the barrel youtube video

    Ten points to Tenngun for a very courteous and thorough explanation. When I was a pilgrim I was taught to blow down the barrel between shots to provide air flow and burn out any remaining embers, and the fringe benefit was that seeing smoke coming from the nipple or vent hole would show me that...
  13. Tanglefoot

    Cataract Surgury and Shooting

    Best of luck to ye, Pathfinder. Some years ago I worked for a company that manufactured implantable lenses for cataract patients (among other things). My mother had a pair of "our" lenses implanted and was absolutely delighted that she no longer needed glasses -- for the first time since she...
  14. Tanglefoot

    Manhattan pistol age?

    I had a Manhattan .31 that looked just like that when I was in college. Got it from a friend of my Dad's who had it hanging on a hook over the fireplace in his hunting camp. When I first saw it, it was a revolver-shaped lump of rust with Rosewood grips and the cylinder hadn't been turned in...
  15. Tanglefoot

    Which Kibler Kit?

    Obtuse??
  16. Tanglefoot

    Loading with a Steel Range Rod

    I don't have a dog in this fight, but I've been doing this thing since the early 60's ,,,, the 1960's, not the 1860's .... and have tried most of what has been mentioned. Generally I use hickory ramrods, but I own three steel range rods that were gifts from a friend and one sectioned brass one...
  17. Tanglefoot

    The Items of Faith. The Dogma of Muzzleloading.com

    This thread started out with comments about "dogma" and appeared to go downhill from there, then wandered off into different subjects. I didn't understand all the snarky comments in the dogma section. What's the problem? I've always personally enjoyed doing things the way they were done in...
  18. Tanglefoot

    A pair of biguns

    Those'll make into a heckuva porch-sweeper, should the need for one arise. Friend of mine had a twice-barrel 8 gauge percussion with 18-inch barrels. I made the mistake (once !) of letting him touch it off while I was off to the side but less than 10 feet away and the shock wave like to...
  19. Tanglefoot

    Track's mink oil

    Like several have suggested, I think you're probably the victim of a prank. Friends with a warped sense of humor, maybe? I've got a jar of that stuff, had it for years - literally - and it sat on a shelf out in my "shop" in one corner of the garage. It's not air conditioned, and during one of...
  20. Tanglefoot

    Weird Question.

    For whatever it's worth, I've always hung my shooting bags and always left them full of gear, and I used my original bag for about 40 years until one day I slung it over my shoulder and the strap broke right where it was sewn to the bag. So, I removed the broken stub from the bag, trimmed the...
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