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    Slocum Cabin Days

    Since 1996 Chatfield Staff and volunteers have celebrated Slocum Cabin Days, an interpretive theater open to the public, which focuses on aspects of the early history and life in the Shining Mountains. Fur Trade Era piles of fur, and trade goods, black powder guns, hawk throwing, cooking...
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    Bayou Salado Rendezvous

    BAYOU SALADO RENDEZVOUS PRE-20TH CENTURY FRONTIER GATHERING JULY 26th ”“ 30th, 2006 Early Set-up July 23rd Hawk & Knife, Mt Man Golf, Primitive Shoot, Shooting Gallery, Fun Shoots, Primitive Archery, Colorado Story Telling, Council Fire Saturday (primitive dress to compete in events)...
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    Blackbeard

    Good afternoon Leave it to Hollywood to be so Politically Correct that they won't even shoot a Parade Load in a flick about Pirates. I did notice however that the cannons recoiled when fired They did do a good job with the various sloops, but I think that Queen Annes Revenge was to a later time...
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    Question about slow match.

    Good morning A friend of mine got information at Colonial Williamsburg. They use slowmatch made from one pound of black powder, 2 gallons of water, a quart of vinegar, and 50 yards of 6 millimeter hemp rope, mix all together and boil for two hours. Alternately I mixed three table spoons of...
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    Rocky Mountain College Rondy

    :) We just wrapped up yesterday evening and broke camp this morning. It was a good Rendezvous despite a fire ban until Friday morning. The Old Spirit is still with us. Captain :thumbsup:
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    Rocky Mountain College Rondy

    :agree: Good morning My good friends Willie Coyote and Smoke Talker are running it. I'm heading up Friday. Get more information at http://www.csmla.org/ :thumbsup: Captain
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    BAYOU SALADO RENDEZVOUS

    We dropped canvas yesterday. It was one of the best Rendezvous' I've attended, despite a "Fire Ban". Next year will it well be the last full weekend in July. Captain :relax:
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    BAYOU SALADO RENDEZVOUS

    All interested in Bayou Salado I just received this from Smoke Talker, here is the part we need to know about, please pass it along. Captain CR
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    BAYOU SALADO RENDEZVOUS

    Good morning Just a week to go, we'll be starting set up. No Food Venders this year. Possible Fire Ban also. :front: Captain
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    Lewis & Clark Exihibit in Denver

    The Denver Museum of Natural History is hosting a Smithsonian sponsored Lewis and Clark Exhibit until August 20. It includes many items directly associated with the Corps of Discovery. $15 plus $5 for Lewis & Clark IMAX for adults, students get in at regular admission of $10. They furnish...
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    BAYOU SALADO RENDEZVOUS

    Just a month to go so I thot I'd move this forward for more viewing! Captain
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    BAYOU SALADO RENDEZVOUS

    JULY 27th
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    New Alamo Movie

    I finally browed the DVD and watched it yesterday. I watched the historians dialog overlay first. Visually it is quite amazing, the cannons recoiled when fired, costuming certainly portrayed the period quite well. It is after all a "Movie" meant to entertain, but it seemed to me that there weren
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    Good place to buy matchlock parts

    Good morning Try The Rifle Shoppe at http://www.therifleshoppe.com/ they sell castings etc from couple of hundred old guns Captain
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    Who's responsible for all this?

    Good Morning I saw a film on explosives last fall. It had a segment about a Chinese doctor trying to invent an elixir of life, in about 600 ad. He was heating a mixture of sulfur saltpeter and honey when it began burning violently and set fire to his hut. The scientists tried this them selves...
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    An affordable barrel?

    Good morning Last summer I picked up a 12 gauge shotgun barrell, from Track of the Wolf, for $28 including shipping. After proof testing, with 100 grains and three balls, we built it into a very primitive matchlock. Nice show piece and it fires extremely fast. I also got three pounds of...
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    Match-Lock questions

    Thanks all for the intereresting discussion Captain
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    Match-Lock questions

    Good morning Is there any evidence that shoulder slings were used with matchlocks? Is there any evidence that gun cases were used with matchlocks? Captain
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    Wheel-Lock Pistol

    Good afternoon I just picked up the August issue of Military History magazine. It has an article, under weaponry, on Wheel-lock pistols. The article seems to contain a number of errors. 1) indicates that early flintlocks appeared before wheel-locks 2) there were other pistols in use before...
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    Where to look for Roundevoo meet'ins

    BAYOU SALADO RENDEZVOUS Presented by Rocky Mountain Living History Society FAIRPLAY, COLORADO JULY 21st - 25th, 2004 Raven Gebhart, (970) 310-7565, [email protected] College Rendezvous 2004 August 7
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