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Great photo! Nice musket and proud looking hunting partner.

I sure enjoy his videos. His enthusiasm is infectious! I was surprised how big a dent the marbles made in the steel before they were obliterated.

Cool! Looks like fun!

Plan A is to take my GPR .54 (PRB) I did pick up a Pedersoli Brown Bess carbine a while back which I have yet to shoot. If I can play with the Bess a bunch this coming summer and happen to get confident enough in my ability to place a ball where I want it, I'm not ruling out hunting with the...

Got word today that I won a muzzleloader draw hunt for moose.

Great historic photo's! It would be interesting to know more about the first trade guns and firearms in general in Alaska.

Rewatching a couple of excellent "The Woodland Escape" videos. One on making a shot pouch and another on a shooting bag. Trying to decide which to start first. I'm planning on making the shooting bag out of an old trashed leather jacket.....getting myself to cut up the old trashed leather...

I much appreciate your very well informed and detailed reply! Sure is a lot of history to be learned about these things.

Thanks for the discussion. I've been following this since I bought a Pedersoli Brown Bess carbine which I have yet to shoot. I've heard it isn't apt to remain as shiny as it is now but I'd like to preserve it as best as I can. Were any sort of Bess's ever browned? I'm asking that because it...

Very nice. I've been thinking of repurposing an old leather coat into a shooting bag. Did you get a pattern for that or make up your own?

Hopefully. I find that posts on this forum are easy to miss so it might take a while for all the Interior folks here to see this.

Agreed! We'd always pay a visit there on our East Coast family visits when my wife's parents lived near there in Scipio Ctr. After NY we'd head to Maine to visit my Mom and sister and The Kittery Trading Post was a mandatory rest stop going in that direction.

That would be fun. We used to have a club here, The Midnight Sun Muzzleloaders, but they're inactive now, as far as I know.

I'm not sure it even takes extreme hoarders to keep stuff off of the shelves. On top of the caps in my cappers I have six extra tins of caps. I'm sure some would consider that a paltry supply but for the amount that I shoot that's a lot. Before, when caps were always available I rarely had...

Agreed. When I was shopping for my first muzzleloader a few years ago I was excited about going down to Anchorage and checking out the recently opened Cabela's there. I thought there would be some sort of representation of what was in the catalog at the store. Got there and there was not a...

Go handle some traditional muzzleloaders and you'll be back here.

Nice! I sure like mine. I'm sure it's been discussed here at length here before but the Great Planes Rifle tends to need a hundred shots or so put through it for break in to get it's best accuracy potential. I found that to be the case with mine

I'm sure there are historians here who know vastly more than I do on the subject but I would venture a guess that today's mass produced handguns are more affordable to the common joe than pistols of the colonial days were.

Nice. I know what you're saying. I've been here for a few years now but still feel like I have a lot more listening to do than talking. I try not to start threads that have been talked about here before, but I'm sure there's nothing wrong with rehashing much discussed subjects. One advantage...

I was thinking the same thing as you. Wanted some sort of muzzloader smoothbore and a flintlock longarm. I found a good deal on a Pedersoli BB carbine at the local gun store which filled both bills. Still have a bit of a hankering for a tack driving small bore flintlock rifle. With the...