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Ive got a few horns headed my way from powderhornsandmore. And i had planned to give the best looking one i make to my grandpa for christmas. He collects everything historical but has a huge civil war collection. Mostly stuff hes dug up over a few decades with metal detectors. Buckets of...

Thanks horner. I said descent because my standards are pretty high haha. Another reason im getting more than one horn. Earlier this year he found out out i was starting to dabble in leather so i left his house with an old bowie in need of a sheath and a saber in need of scabbard repairs (broken...

How long did you guys take to make your first horns? Im gonna order that book and some horns and get to work on a few.wanna have something descent to give my grandpa for christmas. Somethong he can add to his collection of civil war and earlier items

thanks for that picture stump.. im still new to this black powder thing. And had not considered options to keep the powder dry till I watched April Morning and the boy was told to wrap a rag around his flint due to the moisture in the night air.. that leather looks quite a bit better. and im...

For those of you who use strips and cut at the muzzle, how do you lube.. just stick it in your mouth?

need some Pictures :). i cant wait to get my hands on a 54.. hopefully nobody outbids me on gunbroker 1 question on the mink oil tallow.. do you know what the difference is between it and regular mink oil that can be bought at walmart or elsewhere for leather?

looks great, how is the fringe sewn in? is it 1 long continuous strip of leather?

Id like to hunt up yonder. i have always wondered why our Turkey season is months after Thanksgiving down here in GA, not fair. hopefully you can put a deer down next time out

Im considering going after a .54 Lyman Trade rifle. New.. seems to be alot of varying prices. $512 from lyman. between $400-415 in alot of places and even as low as $350 NIB. is that normal i cant tell differences between the rifles

I passed on the hawken after a lot of PayPal issues. Also decided I'd rather start with a percussion than move to Flintlock maybe next year. I really like hawken and plains style. Not lookin for anything fancy. Like to have something soon that I can get on the range and out in the woods before...

My searching has not turned up much, but can someone recommend some online shops that sell used ML'ers the only place I found with more than a few is thegunworks didn't want to start a new thread with a stupid question like this. There's descent selection on tgw but don't wanna overlook...

Thanks for the replies. I asked cause I didn't know. And squirrel don't like to show their faces around here :wink:. Guess I'll stick with the headshots. Rather not mess around with too many different loads from the get go since I'm new to BP and flintlocks specifically

sorry if my questions have been answered but im having issues with the search feature on this forum. just works different than im used to.. with that said im about to build an older TC hawken flinter kit in .50 and would love to take it hunting for squirrel. i would obviously go for heads as i...

If im ever in the area ill have to check it out.

Wilson shoals wma. Range used to be free and open 7 days a week but its changed recently. Now requires a wma stamp i think and open 5 days a week or something.

Well apparently i joined march of last year. When i tried to make an account a few days ago it must have logged me in... Anyways im in Habersham (north georgia) just turned 22 this past week so hoping to buy myself a rifle for the occasion, thats my excuse anyway ;) Any of you fellow georgians...

well i joined up a day or two ago and just made my first post so i figured id introduce myself. not new to firearms. and ive always been an old school guy. could never stand new guns. every gun i bought new has been sold haha. same with scopes. i always find myself going deeper and deeper into...

im new to the forum and BP guns but not guns in general, like was mentioned heat will work if your patient and dont wanna spend money. i cant imagine its harder removing olive oil than it is Cosmoline from a stock.. do some research on cosmoline removal on old milsurps like mosins that have been...