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  1. Tanglefoot

    Just when you think you've seen it all

    Back when the world was young (and so were we … ) I had to make a decision. I could opt to spend my limited funds on performance or on appearance. I chose performance …. ie: the best barrel, lock, and other key parts I could afford or the fanciest wood, inlays, and engraving, etc. I chose a...
  2. Tanglefoot

    What became of the millions of civil war rifle-muskets?

    When I was about 14, I came across a Springfield Trapdoor in a country gas station/grocery/general store. I traded a single barrel shotgun for it and the owner threw in the 6 cartridges he had for it too. I rode home with it across the handlebars of my bike, but it was only a few miles...
  3. Tanglefoot

    A Random Question

    One thing to add, G. Flints don't "get brittle." They're that way from the get-go. A brandy new flint can chip or flake just as readily as an older one. Gun flints are smaller pieces of flint nodes that have been chipped/flaked to the form we use, but they're pretty much all the same age...
  4. Tanglefoot

    Back up pistol in same caliber?

    Once upon a time, I was hunting in the Alafia River Preserve in western Florida. It was ML season, and I was hunting with my Leman caplock .50 caliber, but state law there at that time didn't allow pistols of any variety for hunting, even as backup. One afternoon I was still hunting and heard...
  5. Tanglefoot

    Making a new ramrod - questions

    I've only been doing this since the 60's but I've never broken one of my hickory ramrods yet. I own a brass sectional rod that a friend gifted me with and a couple of steel shop rods (ditto) but I generally use the one in the barrel pipes or a hickory "bench" rod that's 7/16" diameter with a...
  6. Tanglefoot

    New from North Carolina

    Welcome from the Texas Hill Country.
  7. Tanglefoot

    The Best Muzzleloading Movies

    Been thinkin' about La Veta. Doc and Dee Carlson were there and I believe they're still around. So is Jon Bower ("Nightsinger") - the minstrel who was carried around the camp in a sedan chair. Tom "Badger" Kelly is still kicking too. Art Ressel was there, is still alive, but out of the ML...
  8. Tanglefoot

    The Best Muzzleloading Movies

    Coinneach, I was invited to be an extra but couldn't get off work. At the La Veta rendezvous Victoria said that the original script called for her to kill another Indian who was fighting with Heston's character by throwing a tomahawk, but she didn't know how to throw one and there was nobody...
  9. Tanglefoot

    Muzzleloading Myths

    Looks to me like the butt cap of the knife on that pouch strap would make a handy field-expedient short starter, Art. On the subject of myths: When I was away in school, my Dad found two antique powder cans in my cabinet, both with powder in them. One was full and the other about half...
  10. Tanglefoot

    The Best Muzzleloading Movies

    Awhile back in this thread, somebody (I think it was Coinneach) mentioned Victoria Racimo, who was the female lead in the movie "The Mountainmen." She and Charleton Heston were cast members who attended the 1980 Joint NAPR/NMLRA Rendezvous in La Veta, Colorado. I had occasion to spend a little...
  11. Tanglefoot

    The Best Muzzleloading Movies

    How about “Across The Wide Missouri” (1951) or “The Big Sky” (1952)? The rifles used in both were largely originals because there weren’t a lot of replicas made then. The “Sharpes” series is BBC and is about the Napoleonic Wars from the perspective of a British Rifleman using the Baker Rifle...
  12. Tanglefoot

    How do you store your flints?

    Howdy TDM, I keep spares in a flint wallet that's surprisingly identical to the one you showed us in your photos, complete to the stitch pattern. Mine was a gift from a friend, Gary Smith, many years ago. It holds half a dozen plus some extra leather pads. The rest I keep in a buckskin...
  13. Tanglefoot

    Pointing Vs Aiming

    Bill Jordan survived innumerable gunfights on the Texas/Mexican border and went on in his later years to be a demonstration shooter for Colt and Smith & Wesson. He taught point shooting up close and aiming further out. As a demo of his point shooting he had a horizontal target board on which...
  14. Tanglefoot

    One Muzzleloader enough?

    My father taught me that there's no such thing as a silly question --- but that comes close. My answer is, if that makes you happy, sure. It's `way better than no muzzleloader. However, it would make you unusual in this group, or any group of muzzleloaders I've ever been part of.
  15. Tanglefoot

    Greetings from Ireland

    Greetings from South Texas. One of me great-great grand-da’s was a Thornton from Killarney, and I visited there myself some years ago. T’was apringtime and green and lovely. I was lucky enough to have a local colleague offer to show me around, and we visited Blarney Castle, several other...
  16. Tanglefoot

    Pirate special

    Looks to me like it was intended to be carried thrust into a loop of leather or metal, maybe on a bicycle like the old “bicycle guns” — or in a cross-draw position on a man’s belt under a coat. Might also be a storekeepers pistol, hung on a loop or even a protruding nail under a cash register...
  17. Tanglefoot

    Colt 1860 Vs Remington New Model

    My very first BP handgun was an original 1858 Remington, kind of beat up, with a loose front sight. That was back around 1960-61. The grip frame was too small for my paw and the trigger guard beat the whey out of my 2nd finger when it fired. For me, at least, the 1860 Colt fits better but I...
  18. Tanglefoot

    Random thread about myths and gun show tales about percussion revolvers......

    I'm not sure where this thread diverged from muzzleloading, but back some years ago a friend of mine published a monthly called "The Trade Blanket" on black powder stuff, and we did a fairly extensive comparison of the relative force delivered to the target by various cap-n-ball revolvers as...
  19. Tanglefoot

    Roundball Expansion?

    Shot a bull buffalo once. He was running and I hit him in the crease behind his right shoulder as he was going away from me on an angle. I was shooting a Leman caplock .50 caliber loaded with a .495 round ball patched with ticking ahead of 90 grailns of FFg. Range from muzzle to target was...
  20. Tanglefoot

    NMLRA members

    Has anybody else on this forum seen a copy of Tom Schiffer's book "The History Of The NMLRA?"
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