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I was able to get some pictures and measurements of these recently when @TobJohn brought them to Jamestown- a remarkable opportunity! I have about 100 photos of these two, so it’s gonna take a while to get them all on here. 🤣 Jay

When I first moved to Virginia, it was illegal for me to hunt with my Brown Bess during muzzleloading season because the regulations said that you had to use a muzzleloading rifle. I could only use a smoothbore during general firearms season. That’s changed, since. To this day I almost never...

About 5”x7”. The original was divided inside with different sized shot being separated. I generally carry round ball, wads, and patches in the front section and buckshot in the back. I keep birdshot in a separate bag in my pocket. Jay

Yeah. Hunter numbers keep declining and the price of licenses keeps going up. I actually bought a lifetime hunting license as soon as I was old enough to make it a reasonable price, but I still have to pay for separate tags- $23 for a deer and turkey license, $21 for a bear license (which used...

I’ve made a few of them, and that’s what I typically carry when I’m hunting anymore. Jay

One of the guys at work made a pair of pistol buckets for the Governor’s house at Jamestown a couple of years back. We made the last for them out of a broken yoke for carrying water buckets. The flaps are functional and work fine for keeping water out. Jay

They weren’t cutting nails in the blacksmith’s shop at Monticello until after 1796; they had a dedicated nailery where enslaved boys were forging the nails from rod stock- the museum there has some of the worked rods on display. You don’t see cut nails at Monticello until late ‘96, when...

FYI, if it’s illegal for you to carry a modern pistol, it’s certainly illegal for you to carry a black powder pistol. All you’re going to do is get yourself in trouble and cause problems for the rest of us. There are avenues for getting your rights restored; look into it. Jay

Bog standard mid-century pistol. NOT a Kentucky. Something along this line, but steel barreled. https://www.ima-usa.com/products/original-1750-english-flintlock-pistol-from-the-haunted-duke-s-head-pub-kings-lynn?variant=26170629381 Jay

Why would anyone buy a poodle shooter when the gun that won an empire is available? Jay HM XLIV Foot (Ret.)

When I first moved to Virginia in ‘97 I asked the girl I was dating “where are all the adult deer?” We’ve been married 25 years and she still laughs about that. Jay

The actual colour, according to my sources in Williamsburg, was called “Aurora!” Jay

I posted a video on here a year or two ago showing how slowly Pyrodex ignites in a matchlock. I personally would not use the stuff in a hand gonne if I was actually hoping to hit something. Jay

Went away for a couple of weeks, came back to find the tobacco completely overrun with weeds, most of the sweet potatoes dead, the whole place just a wreck. Working on whipping it back into shape… Jay