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  1. Tanglefoot

    Cold weather shooting

    Well, RanchRoper --- It's been my experience that black powder just doesn't fire in freezing temperatures. Leastways, mine don't. And it gets that cold here in South Texas for 3 - 4 days pretty near every year too !! I've been told that muzzleloaders way up north around Amarillo found a way to...
  2. Tanglefoot

    4 chambers at once!

    Some years ago, I was involved in testing a number of competitive cap-n-ball revolvers for a publication called The Trade Blanket which is now defunct. One of the models we were testing was the .36 Navy and we got replicas from several different sources to run a comparison. One of them flashed...
  3. Tanglefoot

    Is This Possible?

    We used to see ramrods going down range most often during stake shoots. Haven't done that myself, but came right close once while trying to hurry for a timed event.
  4. Tanglefoot

    The Mountain Men movie

    RanchRoper: When you see mountain men wading the streams in winter, that's a stretch. Most of the beaver trapping was done in Spring and Fall. Still is, although the water's mighty cold even then. That's one of the reasons most of the trappers who survived to old age had "the ague" in their...
  5. Tanglefoot

    Rifle will not fire?

    Just about everything that could be done has been mentioned, and I can't add anything new that would help you except to suggest very strongly that you treat that piece as a loaded weapon and always (ALWAYS!) keep it pointed in safe direction -- especially while you're trying to figure out why it...
  6. Tanglefoot

    Amusing/Ridiculous Muzzleloading Misconceptions...

    My father had been told that black powder gets unstable as it gets older, and can explode if it's dropped or shaken. I didn't know he believed that, so I never brought the subject up. Then while I was in the army, he came across a pair of antique powder cans I had in a cabinet (still...
  7. Tanglefoot

    Revolver carry safety

    For whatever it's worth, when this child packs a cap `n ball wheel gun for sporting purposes, the hammer rests on an empty chamber. For example, when I'm hunting, or just out wandering the "back 40" where the undergrowth might harbor a venomous reptile, of which we have our share in this part...
  8. Tanglefoot

    Amusing/Ridiculous Muzzleloading Misconceptions...

    Note to megasupermagnum: What you described sounds to me like a Crosman .177 Air Rifle, but that ain't a BB gun, amigo. It's BB caliber but has a rifled barrel. Accurate as all getout. I had one in .22 caliber and regularly hunted tree rats and bunnies with it when I was a kid. Now back to...
  9. Tanglefoot

    Amusing/Ridiculous Muzzleloading Misconceptions...

    Back during the Bicentennial there was a surge of interest in muzzleloading. I was on a job in New Hampshire at the time, and by chance met a gentleman in the edge of the woods during deer season, busting one cap after another on his brand-new .45 caliber muzzleloading rifle, one of those early...
  10. Tanglefoot

    Historically Incorrect, or (A Story of Thread Counting and Delrin Rods)

    Just adding to the remarks about doctoring your self when it's needful, especially responding to Tenngun and Walk. Sometimes you just have to do what's needed yourself. My son and I were at a national rendezvous when he was about 12, and I got a 2 inch splinter jammed out of sight into the palm...
  11. Tanglefoot

    Historically Incorrect, or (A Story of Thread Counting and Delrin Rods)

    Interesting reading, all four pages. I reckon it's time to put my oar in the water for whatever it's worth. My first muzzleloaders were originals because that's all there was available as far as I knew. One of my friends growing up had an attic full of them that his father had collected and...
  12. Tanglefoot

    How do the grips come off the 1860 Army?

    Good job, Phil Coffins. Better'n my patchy explanation.
  13. Tanglefoot

    How do the grips come off the 1860 Army?

    What Grenadier said. The 1860 Army has a 1-piece grip block, not a pair of grip plates that are held by a single screw. Remove the three screws that secure the grip frame (one on either side of the base of the hammer and one that holds the back grip frame to the front strap). The grip block...
  14. Tanglefoot

    The Mountain Men movie

    You're right, griffiga. It was fun. Some of the things I will always remember, and that made the whole thing fun was that Charlton Heston ate the raw egg without complaint when he missed his shot, and when Victoria stuck the tomahawk the first time, she jumped up and down and clapped her hands...
  15. Tanglefoot

    The Mountain Men movie

    I had the pleasure of attending the premier showing of that movie in 1980. Charlton Heston, his son Fraser and his wife, and Victoria Racimo (who played the female lead), all spent three days at the 1980 NMLRA/NAPR Joint Rendezvous in La Veta, Colorado. Fraser Heston wrote the script for the...
  16. Tanglefoot

    Is loading from the flask really that dangerous???

    Think about this, TexasAndy, During WWI and the first year or so of WWII, the standard bursting charge for a fragmentation hand grenade was 500 grains of black powder ... granulation unspecified (or I simply don't know). There are 7010 grains in one pound of powder. That's enough for 14...
  17. Tanglefoot

    Radioactive frizzen?

    A friend of mine had a rifle with what he called "Moon Metal" on the frizzen and I'm guessing that's the same thing. It sparked fine but he got bit by the Authenticity Bug and installed a regular frizzen to replace it. I worked around radiation for a couple of years and the environment was...
  18. Tanglefoot

    Hello from Northern NY

    Where north of Gloversville, TNsourdough? I know the area.
  19. Tanglefoot

    Hello from Northern NY

    Welcome from South Texas.
  20. Tanglefoot

    Black Powder Linguistic Pet Peeves

    As I get older, I've made a list of things I need to worry about. Generally speaking, how other people pronounce or mispronounce words hasn't been one of them, with an exception here and there. For example I once had a Physics professor who spoke English with a strong German accent. Couldn't...
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