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No spring. Gravity is what makes it work. Hanging from the neck one opens it by grabbing the bone handle with the last couple of fingers, lifting the handle up, which puts the thumb in perfect position on the blade to hold it open (you can even see where an indent is on the back of the knife...

This just arrived today. A patch knife used in the Revolutionary War [edited for clarity: no documented trail back to the war- just hearsay]. I figured it hung around the neck so I did the same with it. Very clever design. Opens with one hand and the thumb naturally holds it open. Cut the patch...

Ahhh, that explains why the original screws are ever so smaller in diameter behind the threads than the threads themselves.

I hope you were the one who got this at auction. If not, do you know what it went for? And thanks for sharing.

Thanks. I just looked and mine do cover a bunch of copyright dates, probably the same as yours. Same lettering with mine at the same location as yours. Imagine someone actually having to do that by hand for all these. I'd forgotten about all the jackets we made from grocery bags for our school...

That is a big time period. Sheaths have been very well covered by the others. I'll just add that in the 1700's what we know today as a tomahawk was a fighting weapon (including throwing). Frontiersman were mostly "day hunters", in the woods, and afoot. They needed hand weapons. Which also...

You'll get a kick out of this. Put her (and the gun) on the bench. First shot? We have no idea where it went but guessing under the target by the trail the round ball left in the snow. I took a level out put it on top of the barrel aiming at the A-zone and set the sand bags. Got her back down...

I tried to shop at WalMart but they wouldn't let me in. Too many teeth. Don't waste your time with rubbing alcohol, that stuff will make you go blind. I use good ol Kentucky Moonshine (afterall a jug is always right there), just shoot quick otherwise it will eat right through the barrel.

We are using Moose Milk when just shooting for what its worth for the reasons stated above. This picture is my Squaw's 3rd, 4th and 5th time she has ever shot a muzzleloader (with Moose Milk and patched round balls run from a Revolutionary War ca mold). Off-hand, 25 yds, with the 20 bore Fowler...

That is correct. Down from .162 to .145. I need two lock screws. Do I need to send you some of the screws I bought from TOW? I got a bag of em. I've been trying to wrap my head around swaged screws and then I remembered as a youth seeing screws with seams down the threads. Is that what they were?

Got my volumes, thanks for letting me know about them. Mine were published in 1968 and come with the original brown paper jackets with the volume title on the spine in pencil. I guess for a collector that is special? For me it tells me maybe they were never even read? Any way looking forward to...

Huge thanks regardless of the outcome. Looks like the original screw rolled up a bit but I hope the measurements make sense. The screw at the top I bought from TOW: Lock bolt, 8-32 thread, 3/8" diameter cylindrical head, 2" length The thread matches up just about perfectly but the diameter is...

Nice lead, thanks.

I initially dismissed metric as it didn't become a standard in France until something like 1796, but I guess that doesn't mean it didn't exist before then. I'll give that a try. Thanks.

I don't have it in my hand yet, purchased at auction now waiting for it to ship. I've actually got the complete kit coming, shooting bag, powder horn, priming horn, vent pick, etc. I'll share once it's here. The flatness might actually be just how the camera saw it, just don't know for sure...

Need four antler powder measures. Two 60 grain and two 25 grain. Would like them to resemble an original I have from 1781 (see picture below). So much talent here I know this is in the wheel house of one of you folks. And Merry Christmas.

The lock screws on one of my 1750 ca flintlock pistols are striped. The pitch appears to be 32, but the diameter is just a little smaller than no. 8 but larger than a No. 6. Unfortunately the shoulder in the lock isn't big enough to allow me to enlarge the holes to accept an 8-32 lock screw...

Welcome from Alaska. Usually we winter in Louisiana, but because of Ida we stayed here. Brrrrrrrrrr.

I have been to that little Church many times. And purchased salsa spices from a little stand near it.

Okay here it is. The book that got me started in this back in '76- Give Your Heart To The Hawks. As of '73 when it was published it was historically accurate, which means it's still really close today. In my opinion it is the easiest read and by far the most enjoyable and that's because the...