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Respectfully, y'all mustn't mess with Texans or really anyone who has been squeezed in the real wringer of life -- of years of growing up in a family barely getting by. That suffering and want is just as real against your backbone as a sharecropper chopping a poor cotton crop in Mississippi, or...

I would love to know more about the original bag in a museum that inspired this. The basketweave layer of wool strips is ingenious, and a technique I haven't heard of before, though it makes great sense. Anyone know more about its provenance -- and which museum has it in its collections?

Well, Dale, you are facing about the pleasantest dilemma known to any gun crank. :cool:

Will go $50 and $15 shipping. Too big for the small flat-rate box.

Reading the posts and discussion regarding the Kibler fowlers -- with Jim's recommendation to choose the 20 gauge for PRB shooting vs. the 16 -- got me to wondering what the ideal roundball-shooting smoothbore would look like. We're talking a flint or percussion firearm designed for maximum...

Tip of the hat, Dave. Many forget that we took our cues on swords, saddles and artillery from the French. https://www.spotsylvania.va.us/2636/The-Cutting-Edge#:~:text=By%20the%20time%20of%20the,employed%20in%20the%20Napoleonic%20Wars.

And here they are! Very sweet rifle! https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/pattern-1776-rifle.158351/

Sure would love to see one of these 1776 Tower Rifles! :cool:

Recently visited Fort Chadbourne, Texas, down toward San Angelo. The fort was established in 1852 and abandoned in 1867. I couldn't help but notice these modified five-board benches out on the covered porch. They are certainly replicas, but historically correct, it would seem.

Excellent question Warren. Hope you get some great answers. I can't think of anything prior to the Parrott rifles.

Good to see you here, Carlsen. I have enjoyed your posts over on Paco's Leverguns forum over the years.

Hard to argue with the rugged simplicity of that design. Might take a bit to get used to the "aesthetics" of it. :cool:

Bill, you came up with a nice design. I would consider raising the lower stabilizer/spreader an inch or two up the legs to allow the bench to contact the ground on just three points in the event it is ever used on other than a paved and level surface.

Strongly suggest you go to the N-SSA.org bulletin boards for in-depth discussions of the percussion Sharps carbines and rifles. Those boys really know their stuff and on all the manufacturers.

Another variant would be one of the models of the British infantry "expense pouch" carried in Victorian times, mostly for ammunition. Apparently the name derives from having the contents easily at hand to "expend" quickly.

This beautifully made German plane has seen almost zero use and is in as-new condition. European beech handle and hornbeam sole, made the way planes have been made in Europe for centuries. I bought it intending to duplicate 18th and 19th century furniture, as the scrub plane was used to flatten...

For one who has read a lot about Smith, spent time salmon fishing the Smith River near Jedediah Smith State Park, and visited the Umpqua Massacre site several times, I don't quite agree that "An extra benefit to Jedediah Smith is that he had been lost to the mists of history." But there can't...

Wonderful job, Olskool. Hope to afford a Kibler kit one of these days. As to the grumps out there, if you can't say something nice, say nothing at all.

Sounds like good stuff. Friends in the Victorian Riflemen have been known to use "Udderly Smooth" lanolin lotion with great success.

Now you are making me want to have another go! 😄