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Nath, my friend, before you started posting your exploits with your .45 smooth rifle I would never have given such a gun a second thought. You have educated me! :cool: Looks like Jess's nose is all healed after that recent tangle with the squirrel.

Oh, boy, you'll fit in well here! :cool:

Marty, there are a few threads here and there on Obatex, including remarks by at least one American hunter that it was disappointing in a flintlock. I used to hear reasonably good reports about Sannadex years ago, but believe it is no longer on the market.

PM sent, Collie. Thank you. Looks like she is SPF boys.

I set the barrel on the tiller with the touchhole at a slight angle to keep the burning fuse/slow match out of the direct line of sight if you use the tiller-on-your-shoulder aiming position versus instinctive aiming from the hip.

In the classifieds. The house remodel from Hades drags on.

Here's a late medieval period hand gonne, featuring a nicely machined and blued .75 smoothbore barrel from The Rifle Shoppe mounted on an antiqued tiller, total length 53 inches and a hair under 4 pounds Comes with the short ramrod, the Lyman .735 round ball mold with handles, and a big wad of...

Another howdy-do from west central Texas, the "Rolling Plains."

Just fascinating! I don't know why I am surprised that the guns seem so small/short.

Nice bucks, Tony. I'm thinking a .54 ball over 50 grains of Swiss FFFg ought to apply considerably more horsepower to the work. If I ever get the chance, I will chronograph this.

If anyone has not seen a big Coehorn live fired, you are in for a huge treat when you do! And if it is bowling balls they are shooting, the screech of the wind in those three fingerholes sounds like a scream that could only have come from Hades.

No caps at my Walmart, but I did snarf a couple of boxes of rarely seen .410 shells last week.

I have done this to atlatl dart shafts I made from red osier dogwood, then rubbed in beaver oil. Dunno if it helps, but yeah, it's a pleasant thing to do. Of course, burnishing leather is a "whole 'nother story."

Wonderful acquisition, Jacob. Turner Kirkland used a Rawbone four-gauge double on an elephant hunt and wrote up his safari in the Lyman "Muzzleloaders' Handbook, First Edition," published in 1976.

TRS makes wonderful stuff. I just don't understand their business model.

Seems to me a Plains Pistol in .54 would be a highly versatile accessory. Brazosland, all three of those pistols are beauties and that hanger is to die for! Bill in the Clear Fork drainage.

Boy, that tightened things up!

What's she weigh? I briefly owned one of the more recent Pedersoli Hawkens and it was a hefty article.

If it actually worked it must have been terrifying.

The same can be said of Vic. A fine guy. :cool: